At the rate of one degree per century, global warming can barely be measured, to say nothing of being noticed, especially since temperatures in your neighborhood go up and down 50 or 60 degrees every six months, and about 20 degrees every 12 hours.  One degree per century is inconsequential, and certainly not enough to cause all the things that are blamed on global warming.

Global warming is the ultimate chicken-little alarm, because how are you going to disprove it?  If you turn off the television and step outside, everything seems normal, but The Experts say we've got to do something, fast.  Yes, it will be fast and expensive.  And what problem will be solved?  A problem that only exists in badly flawed computer projections.  Hocus pocus.  Flim flam.  A trillion-dollar shell game.

What's really amusing is that global cooling is blamed on global warming.  This says a lot about the quality of the public schools, in my opinion.  Fifty years ago such an accusation would have been laughed into oblivion instantly, because ordinary people learned (in school) how to think for themselves.

Note:
The recent rash of wildfires in Australia have been blamed on global warming, but in reality, arson is apparently the primary cause.

Incidentally, the migration of the poles   is NOT caused by global warming.

Is Biden About To Declare Himself Climate Dictator?  Democrats have already made it clear that they will stop at nothing — nothing — to prevent Donald Trump from winning in November.  So, we aren't surprised to read reports that President Joe Biden might declare a "climate emergency" this year in hopes that it gooses his reelection odds.  Never mind that such a declaration would put the U.S. right on the path to a Venezuela-style future.  Late last week, Bloomberg reported that "White House officials are weighing whether to declare a national climate emergency several months out from the 2024 election." [...] Let's leave aside the entirely fatuous notion that there is anything even remotely constituting a climate "emergency."  What would be the basis for such a declaration?  The number of hurricanes, fires, floods?  None of these has been trending upward.  Death rates from natural disasters are a tiny fraction of what they were 60 years ago, and lower than they were 20 years ago.  Food production is way up.  But Biden has already used the "climate crisis" as an excuse to impose a draconian electric vehicle mandate on the country, attack a host of household appliances, pour billions into "clean energy" scams, and more.

Not to mention AIDS, gonorrhea, chlamydia, monkeypox and syphilis.
UCLA study:  Gay couples at greater risk from climate change.  A new study out of UCLA says same-sex couples are at greater "risk of exposure to the adverse effects of climate change" than straight couples.  These effects include "wildfires, floods, smoke-filled skies, and drought," according to a report from KQED.  Same-sex couples disproportionately live in coastal regions and cities, which are more vulnerable to such disasters.  They're also more likely "to live in areas with poor infrastructure, worse-built environments."  Washington DC, which rates high for "climate risks" such as heat waves, floods, and "dangerously strong winds," has the greatest proportion of gay couples in the U.S.

Climate Change Killed Your Pets.  Trigger warning:  if your household companions include a cat, dog, canary, goldfish or turtle, this article is not a safe space.  I'm writing about Harvard's distinguished agnatologist Professor Naomi Oreskes and her warning in 2014 that global warming would kill your pets in 2023.  The warning is in her acclaimed but glum book The Collapse of Western Civilization:  A View from the Future.  Given margins of error in climate science, the pet die-off might be this year instead.  Oreskes writes, "The loss of pet cats and dogs garnered particular attention among wealthy Westerners, but what was anomalous in 2023 soon became the new normal. ... A shadow of ignorance and denial had fallen over people who considered themselves children of the Enlightenment" (p9).

Climate Crisis (scam) Now Blamed For Killer Cold Ocean Outbreaks.  No matter the question the answer is always "climate change!"  Even when it makes no sense[.] [...] What I'm not seeing in the article is any scientific proof that this is linked to either man-caused or natural climate change.  It's something that does happen periodically, it's just that a big even happened.  Nor is it shown that climate change of either type is responsible, just that words have to be included to get news coverage.

Man who lost his Norfolk home to North Sea coastal erosion sues the government for not doing enough on global warming.  A man who claims to have been made a 'climate refugee' after his home was demolished because it risked falling into the sea is suing the government.  Kevin Jordan, 70, said he had 'lost everything' after sea erosion saw his home in Hemsby, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk demolished by the local council.  His case will be heard by the High Court this summer, along with that of fellow Briton Doug Paulley, who says that Britain's hotter summer climate has worsened his health conditions and put him in distress.

The Editor says...
Localized erosion is not a global problem.  Depreciation of your real estate are not the government's problem.  If you are too hot in the summer, move north.

Climate Change Is Not Causing Inflation.  A recent study in the journal Nature: Communications Earth and Environment claims climate change is contributing to price inflation.  The study's authors say they found climate change harms economic productivity and food production, leading to higher prices.  They examined more than 27,000 monthly consumer price index data points around the globe.  I can't begin to describe all the ways this claim is not just outright false but is misleading in a manner clearly intended to motivate restrictions on fossil fuel production and use, policies which would in fact increase energy prices, harm food production, and result in lost jobs, higher prices, and lower incomes.  Policymakers taking this study seriously might impose policies which themselves would result in worse inflation than the world is currently experiencing, which is in part due to existing climate policies.

ABC's Hostin Links Eclipses, Earthquakes, Cicadas to Climate Change.  ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Monday on ABC's "The View" that eclipses, earthquakes and cicadas could "lead one to believe" that "climate change exists."  [Transcript]

Climate Change Harming Indonesian Trans Sex Workers.  I have been a critic of climate change alarmism for years, but I am seriously rethinking my position.  The inundation of our shores, the drying up of our farmlands, and the mass extinction of humanity — all things I have been told threaten us — didn't convince me of the need to completely remake our economy.  But now that I am being told that climate change is making life more difficult for transgender Indonesian sex workers I am truly alarmed.

Claim: Pre-eclampsia rates in 'pregnant people' linked to climate change in Bangladesh.  Pregnant people in Bangladesh are suffering from alarming rates of negative health effects tied to rising salinity in drinking water due to sea level rise and climate-fueled cyclones, The Guardian reports.  Increased salt intake can lead to hypertension, pre-eclampsia, and eclampsia — all of which can have dire, potentially deadly, effects on both the pregnant person and fetus.  "When Cyclone Aila hit in 2009, it left behind a trail of destruction, breaching embankments and leaving the entire region submerged in salt water," said Dr. Santosh Kumar, a gynecologist in Dacope.  "With most freshwater infrastructure destroyed, the coastal region has been facing an acute drinking water crisis.  The extent of the impact on people's health is only now being realised."

The Editor says...
[#1] All cyclones are "climate fueled."  So what?  [#2] Bangladesh has been practically uninhabitable for decades.  Bad weather and bad living conditions are nothing new there.

US home insurance bills to hit $2,500-a-year in 2024 due to climate change.  US home insurance rates will hit a record high this year, according to grim new forecasts.  The typical annual premium will rise to $2,522 by the end of 2024, according to insurance comparison platform Insurify[,] up 6 percent on a year before.  This projected increase for 2024 comes on the back of a 20 percent hike over the last two years.  This has largely been driven by escalating natural disasters, insurers pulling out of certain areas[,] which cuts down on competition[,] and higher fees for home repairs.

The Editor says...
Insurance companies are raising rates because of natural disasters, not because of climate change; for indeed, there is no abnormal climate change underway.  On the other hand, there are a lot of people dying suddenly and unexpectedly and long before their time, and the insurance companies are paying out life insurance at a rate they didn't foresee.  Any mention of climate change is just click bait.

Dems, Media Push New Study Linking Climate Change to Inflation, But Economists Aren't Buying It.  Liberals are touting a new study linking climate change and inflation, but economists say that the real causes are more likely to be massive government interventions in the economy purporting to save the climate.  The study, authored by four European researchers and published in the scientific journal Communications:  Earth and Environment on March 21, argues that "temperature increases cause nonlinear, persistent increases in food and headline inflation," according to its text.  While corporate media outlets, climate activists and Democrats have boosted the study's findings, the forces related to climate change that are likely to drive persistent inflation are massive government taxation, spending and regulation pushed by policymakers to fight climate change, according to economists who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

BBC [says] Banana production [will] drop despite banana output having doubled over the last 20 years.  Banana prices to go up as temperatures rise, reports Matt McGrath of the BBC.  What a magnificent story — adding to the fake climate emergency narrative and helping out Big Banana all in one go.  Alas, the uncharitable might note that the story is slightly spoilt by banana output having doubled over the last 20 years, helped, almost certainly, by a little extra warmth and atmospheric carbon dioxide.  Bananas are set to get more expensive as climate change hits a much loved fruit, says Pascal Liu of the World Banana Forum, a UN umbrella group promoting the banana business.  'Experts' are reported to be concerned about the growing threats from a warming world and from the diseases that are spreading in its wake.  McGrath helpfully adds that last week saw shortages in several U.K. supermarkets due to "storms at sea".  There are reported to be concerns about a relatively new strain of Fusarium Wilt, a plant disease that has been widespread in commercial banana plantations for over 100 years.

Global Warming and the Leap Second.  Due to leftism, America is sinking into decline, giving us real problems to worry about and making it ever more likely people will roll their eyes when confronted with leftists shrieking about their imaginary climate crisis.  So they try different angles.  Now they want us to believe it impacts Father Time:  One day in the next couple of years, everyone in the world will lose a second of their time.  Exactly when that will happen is being influenced by humans, according to a new study, as melting polar ice alters the Earth's rotation and changes time itself.  Per Democrat ideology, the melting polar ice is caused by the federal government not yet having snuffed out the last of our freedom.  Lest you think a "leap second" isn't worth losing sleep over, we are told that it "can have a big impact on computing systems."

The Editor says...
Leap seconds do not lengthen or shorten your life.  (Neither does February 29.)  The leap second is merely an adjustment in the hour, minute, and second "name" given to each second of the day.  The atomic clocks put out a tick every second, and each tick is assigned a number (HH:MM:SS).  Leap seconds go largely unnoticed, except by the news media, which is desperately looking for ways to distract you from inflation, four-dollar gasoline, illegal aliens everywhere, Joe Biden's mental decline, and out-of-control crime in the streets.  The computer in your house won't be affected enough to notice, because the clock in your PC is probably in error by more than a second already.  The few people who do care include my old pals at the TV station, which is automated, and depends on precise timing.

Lots of things COULD BE happening.
Climate change and polar ice melting could be impacting the length of Earth's day.  Humanity is rapidly waking up to the fact that time is running out to take action to mitigate the effects of climate change.  Ironically, climate change itself, primarily caused by the release of greenhouse gases via the burning of fossil fuels, could help delay a time-related crisis.  Currently, we keep official time using around 450 ultra-precise atomic clocks to keep Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which was first defined in 1969.  A more traditional historical method of time-keeping uses the rotation of Earth.  But because Earth's rotation fluctuates, since 1972, the alignment between these two measurements has been maintained by adding 27 "leap seconds" to the official time standard.  However, new research led by University of California geologist Duncan Agnew suggests that ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica caused by global warming could be impacting Earth's angular velocity, the rate at which the planet turns, and thus lengthening the day, albeit by an amount so small it is imperceptible to humans — but not to computers that rely on precise timekeeping.

The Editor says...
[#1] Aha!  The writer says effects of global warming are so small they're imperceptible to humans, as I have been saying for years.  [#2] If you ask me, the primary reason the Earth is rotating faster is earthquakes.  Every time an earthquake occurs, large masses of rock move closer to the center of the Earth.  This is due to the Coriolis force.  On the other hand, the Earth tends to slow down because of the friction that opposes the tides on the oceans.  At least that's the way I heard it.  So the two cancel each other out, and the resulting changes in the rotation of the Earth are practically immaterial, unless you're selling tabloid newspapers.

Have We Reached Peak Climate Nuttery?  A new report tells us that man-made global warming is driving up prices.  Please tell us this is parody.  It's far too risible not to be.  Oh, but no.  We've been assured that it's a serious paper.  "Global warming and heat extremes to enhance inflationary pressures," was published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Communications:  Earth and Environment.  Axios tells us the study "incorporated more than 27,000 observations of monthly price indices across 121 countries in the developed and developing worlds during the 1996 to 2021 period, along with high-resolution weather observations."  From that, the authors were able to determine that "human-caused climate change" is likely to worsen inflation.  But it seems as if they had one eye closed as they reached that conclusion.  Had they had both open throughout, they'd have to agree with H. Sterling Burnett, director of climate and environmental policy at the Heartland Institute, who said "climate change has nothing to do with it.  It doesn't print money, nor create new programs and policies spending it."

The Editor says...
[#1] Global warming is about world-wide climate changes over the next century.  "High-resolution weather observations" don't show long-term trends or global conditions.  [#2] Common sense, if you had any, would tell you that grocery prices are not proportional to the outdoor temperature.  If they are, you should always do your shopping in the early morning.

Trudeau Government to Investigate 'How Climate Change Interacts With Democratic Decline'.  Self-described "basic Chinese dictatorship" admirer — I don't need to play the clip here, right?  We've all seen it by now — and effeminate Xi Jinping boy-toy Justin Trudeau has big new plans for the money his government farms from the serfs. [...] Obviously, no one, Trudeau included, actually understands what "research across the global south to better understand how climate change interacts with democratic decline" entails because it's NGO-speak drivel, but you can be sure some public-private sector entrepreneurs are going to get rich.  You can also be sure no so-called "journalism" permitted within a square kilometer of Lady Trudeau will ever ask for any clarification on the points raised above.

Bernie Says Biden Should Take Executive Action on [the] Border, Then Blames The Invasion On Climate Change.  Far-left Senator Bernie Sanders has said that he would support Joe Biden taking executive action about the situation at the southern border.  In an interview with CBS, Sanders made the sensible point that you cannot have tens of thousands of people entering the country illegally, which is currently happening with the support of the Biden regime: [...] [Video clip]  When the interviewed asked whether he would support an executive order to allieviate the situation Sanders said he would.  However, he then blamed the situation on so-called climate change, claiming that illegals are moving to America because their crops are failing rather than for the incredible incentives handed out by the Democratic establishment: [...]

Pope Francis Blames Mongolian Cold Spell on Global Warming.  Pope Francis has blamed Mongolia's current cold spell on global warming, insisting the overheating environment is a "global social problem."  Following his weekly Angelus address Sunday, the pontiff said he is close to the population of Mongolia, "affected by a wave of intense cold, which is causing serious humanitarian consequences."  This extreme phenomenon, which has occasioned the death of over 600,000 livestock, is "a sign of climate change and its effects," the pope told the estimated 20,000 gathered in Saint Peter's Square.

The climate crisis is not gender neutral.  The climate crisis is far from "gender neutral".  Women and men are affected differently by weather and climate, and therefore need gender-sensitive information and services, WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo said in a keynote address. [...] Since taking office at the start of the year, Celeste Saulo says one of her priorities is to foster greater diversity within the WMO, ensuring equitable representation across gender, regional, and cultural lines.  She is committed to implementing the WMO Gender policy which was updated in 2023.  "Women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change and weather-related disasters.  In addition, we know that they have less access to climate information, early warnings, agricultural advisory services, mobile phone technology and financial credit," she told the International Gender Champions event, hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

A lot of things MAY happen someday.
Giant, synchronized swarms of locusts may become more common with climate change.  Heavy wind and rain may be triggering widespread, synchronized desert locust outbreaks in key breadbasket regions of the world, new research shows.  And the range of these ravenous, crop-stripping locusts could expand up to 25% due to climate change.  The study, published Wednesday (Feb. 14) in the journal Science Advances, is the first to show a robust link between large-scale, synchronous locust swarms and specific weather patterns.  The scale of these megaswarms is astounding:  A single swarm can contain tens of millions of insects and span 925 square miles (2,400 square kilometers).

Biden's climate change reparations will bankrupt America.  Perhaps nothing better illustrates the backwards nature of our time than the drive for reparations.  This includes not only payment for race discrimination, but also for the impacts of climate change.  In both cases, it's the West's middle and working classes who will foot the bill.  Historically, compensation went to those who directly suffered from gross injustice in their own lifetimes.  Descendants of concentration camps, whether in the Holocaust or the less lethal, but also unjust imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War Two are prime examples.  Their children and grandchildren, however, generally do not make any claim.  California, unsurprisingly, leads in reparations mania.  The state legislature is now considering a proposals from the Reparations Task Force for compensation of around $569 billion, with $223,200 per person — estimates of a national reparations bill could top $14 trillion.  This despite the fact that about the only people who could claim the legacy of slavery in California are Native Americans, who should send the bill to Madrid rather than Sacramento.

The next big climate scare:  Counting climate change deaths.  The next big climate scare is on the way.  Advocates of measures to control the climate now propose that we begin counting deaths from climate change.  They appear to believe that if people see a daily announcement of climate deaths, they will be more inclined to accept climate change policies.  But it's not even clear that the current gentle rise in global temperatures is causing more people to die.  In December 2023, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at COP28, the 28th United Nations Climate Conference, and mentioned climate-related deaths.  "We are seeing and beginning to pay attention and to count and record the deaths that are related to climate," she said.  "And by far the biggest killer is extreme heat."  According to Clinton, Europe recorded 61,000 deaths from extreme heat in 2023, and she estimated that about 500,000 people died from heat across the world last year.

Self-appointed 'climate epidemiologist' Claims: 'Climate change has killed at least four million people'.  Rebuttal tweet by Steve Milloy:  [1.] No one has ever died from "climate change."  [2.] There is no climate-related "health emergency."  [3.] There is no such thing as a "climate epidemiologist", even though @ColinJCarlson claims to be one.  [Numerous additional Tweets]

More Snow?  Less Snow?  No Snow?  Climate Change Does It All According to NYT.  Did it snow a lot in your neck of the woods?  Climate change!  Are you seeing less snow this year?  Climate change did that, too. [...] In the space of two weeks, the New York Times has stories that say climate change will end snow forever, reduce the amount of snow somewhat, or cause more snow than ever before.

The climate doomsayers' cooked up coffee crisis.  Popular things easily recognized — even cherished — by people are continually identified as being at risk of being damaged or destroyed by climate change.  Coffee, for example, is a commodity experiencing a surge in popularity, and there are no prizes for guessing what climate doomsayers are saying now.  Yes, coffee is now said to be under threat from man-made climate change.  CNN, in a recent article, made this statement:  "climate change poses a huge threat to the coffee business and to farmers."  Keeping with its customary approach of presenting climate change as a threat to all manner of things, CNN quotes the Inter-American Development Bank as warning that "rising temperatures will reduce the area suitable for growing coffee by up to 50%."  Is this claim true?

Report: Huge primates died out because they couldn't adapt to changing climate.  Gigantic primates that lived in China until hundreds of thousands of years ago died off because of their inability to adapt to changing climate conditions, according to a new paper from Chinese and Australian researchers and published in the journal Nature.  The 9-foot-tall Gigantopithecus blacki is believed to have lived from about 5 million years ago until a little over 200,000 years ago and is thought to be the largest primate to have ever existed.

Christians Slaughtered in the Nigerian Genocide.  [Scroll down]  In its report on last Christmas's slaughter of nearly 200 Christians, for instance, the Associated Press (AP) failed to mention that the massacres occurred during Christmas, just as it failed to mention the identities of the attackers (Muslims) and their victims (Christians).  Rather, it presented the conflict, as many commentators increasingly do, as a supposedly regrettable byproduct of climate change — which is, according to them, is forcing herdsmen (Muslims) to encroach on the lands of farmers (Christians).

Alejandro Mayorkas:  Climate Change Contributes to Migrant Surge.  [Video clip and little else.]

It's always climate change.  Yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas took climate change to another level.  He is blaming the border crisis on, yes, say it, climate change. [...] To be fair, I did not see the full interview so I don't know if the fellow from CNN challenged him.  He could have said something like: "Mr. Secretary, did the climate only start to change once you began running things?"  Or maybe something like: "Mr. Secretary, why do we never hear 'climate change' from the people seeking asylum?"  My cynical guess is that no one at the Biden administration cares anymore about this.  They will leave this mess to the next guy and call everyone a racist if the judge rejects the asylum requests.

BBC Claims Climate Change is Behind Increased Lightning Deaths in Bangladesh.  Will 2024 bring any respite from the BBC's relentless climate propaganda?  It doesn't look like it.  As if to set the tone for the next twelve months, on New Year's Eve it published a real gem.  The central claim its article makes contains a very big but easily debunked falsehood.  Even when the evidence is sparse or non-existent, the corporation is always eager to tell us that every wildfire, flood, storm or drought is a sign that the planet is doomed and we must all submit to Net Zero.  The BBC seems unconcerned that it has now racked up an ever-growing litany of examples of climate misinformation, while it regularly accuses others of doing the same.  In its attempt to drill into its readers the idea that we are on the brink of disaster, the BBC usually uses what its reporters think is a tried and tested method, or a combination of several.  Where there is nothing more than a correlation between variables, it frames an article in a way which implies there is causation.

World Leaders' Terror of Climate Change.  Today's foremost security threats — e.g., great power competition, cyber-attacks, piracy, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, financial crises, dictatorships, nationalism, drug-trafficking, insurgencies, revolutions, Iran, North Korea, etc. — all continue to fester.  None can be persuasively linked to climate change, even as a worsening effect.  Further, climate change does not appear to drive the agendas or motives of global antagonists like Putin, Xi, Al-Shabaab, the Taliban, Kim, Khomeini, Assad, al-Qaeda, cartels, Hezb'allah, Hamas, the Houthis, Boko Haram, or others.  Instead, consider that environmental factors rarely incite conflict within or between nations.  In fact, the opposite — international cooperation — is the more likely outcome in concert with the human race's innate ability to adapt to its environment.  The climate-security link Stoltenberg wants us to accept can be greatly overstated and instead aimed to serve political agendas and economics more than addressing real security threats.

Not the Babylon Bee.  What exactly a "climate disease" is is a mystery until you realize this term was invented to make a snappy headline.  In non-headline speak, these are diseases that are spread by more frequent interactions between people and wild animals driven out of their natural environment due to climate change.  Or they are diseases we are to believe are made more common due to climate change.  Color me skeptical.  Malaria, Dengue fever, and other diseases have been with us for millennia, and new diseases have been springing up throughout human history.

Study Blames Flight from Democrat-Run Cities on Climate Change.  Far-left Axios is gushing over a new study that blames climate change for people fleeing Democrat-run cities like the "metro areas of Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Washington, D.C. (specifically, Alexandria, Va.)."  "Climate migration is already taking place within American communities, new data finds, as people flee flood-prone areas, and create 'climate abandonment' zones," writes an unquestioning Axios.  "The study constitutes the latest warning sign of the effects of climate change," Axios continues without skepticism.  "Population shifts, and a larger reckoning for real estate, are only expected to worsen as global average surface temperatures rise."

The Editor says...
Who watches a thermometer that closely?  How many people pack up and move because of a one-degree temperature change?  Moving out of a "flood-prone area" is nothing new, especially after a flood, but that has nothing to do with global warming.  Even if the average temperature goes up one degree in the next fifty years, how would you know?  How far away is the nearest area unaffected by climate change?  It is much more plausible to surmise that people are moving out of Democrat-controlled cities because crime is out of control, taxes and fees are constantly increasing, and grocery prices are getting intolerable (because Joe Biden is printing money with nothing to back it up).

Top Mosquito Expert Blasts Dame Jenny Harries's Claim That Climate Change Will Make Dengue Fever Common in U.K. Within 20 Years.  A top mosquito expert has blasted Professor Dame Jenny Harries's claim that climate change will make dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases common in the U.K. within 20 years, branding it "entirely fictional" and "shameless".  Professor Harries, who heads the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), recently said that rising temperatures will make such diseases common in the U.K. by 2040 because the Asian Tiger Mosquito — which can transmit dengue, chikungunya, zika, yellow fever and other viral diseases — will become established throughout Britain.  Dengue will become endemic in London, she claimed.  But Professor Paul Reiter, retired Professor of Insects and Infectious Diseases at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and a leading expert in mosquito-borne diseases, has ridiculed her claims.

Al Gore Says There is a Mental Health Crisis Around the World Because "We Are Not Solving the Climate Crisis".  Global warming charlatan Al Gore appeared on CNN on Sunday and told host Jake Tapper that there is a mental health crisis around the world because of the unsolved 'climate change' crisis.  "There is a mental health crisis around the world, I think that one of the main reasons for that is that young people look at the fact that we are not yet solving the climate crisis," Al Gore said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.  "We hear the word thrown around 'poly-crisis.'  Well, solving the climate crisis is a 'poly-solution.'  We know what to do.  We have the means to do it.  And we have to make sure that we make the right political choices in our democracy to enable ourselves to make the right choices," Al Gore said.

Not Caused by Climate Change:  The Sinking of Joshimath.  Joshimath is a Holy City high in the Indian Himalayas.  It is one of the stops on the route of a Holy Pilgrimage.  Many homes and buildings in Joshimath have developed cracks and have become uninhabitable during the past year.  The Indian press has been running ongoing stories since last January pointing fingers in all directions and, regardless of the cause, Joshimath is sinking.  The local people point the blame away from themselves and to Federal government projects that are taking place nearby:  the building a by-pass road that would shorten the pilgrimage route by 15 kilometers by building a wider, safer road and the blasting being done for a tunnel for a massive hydroelectric project.  The media in India and elsewhere have been running story after story on the situation. [...] The truth is that Joshimath has been sinking for a long time.  A report was commissioned in 1976 because of ongoing subsidence and landslides in the area.  The findings indicated that the town of Joshimath was built on unstable soils deposited by a long-ago landslide — the soil beneath the city is a mix of sand and boulders, "boulders, gneissic rocks, and loose soil with a limited bearing capacity are covered by old landslide debris on the area's dispersed rocks."

Climate Change Is Not Threatening Human Health.  It has become all too common in the media, especially every time another United Nations climate conference like COP28 takes place, to blame every problem on climate change.  The media and their go-to climate pundits reach far and wide to connect whatever tragic event is trending in the news to the modest warming of the past hundred or so years, and they do it no matter how tenuous the connection.  Some claims immediately stand out as ridiculous to even the casual observer, like the claim that the oceans are boiling, which is so stupid only someone who has blind trust in favored authorities bordering on pathological would believe it.  Other claims have the appearance of plausibility, at least at first glance, because the logic is relatively straightforward.  Even then, existing data often contradicts the climate attribution.

US moves to protect wolverines as climate change melts their mountain refuges, threatens extinction.  The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists' warnings that climate change will likely melt away the rare species' snowy mountain refuges and push them toward extinction. [...] Wolverines join a growing number of animals, plants and insects — from polar bears in Alaska to crocodiles in southern Florida — that officials say are at growing risk as increasing temperatures bake the planet, altering snowfall patterns and raising sea levels.

The Editor says...
The Associated Press is getting more brazen in its reporting of the dire effects of global warming, even though there has been approximately zero global warming in the last 25 years.  Certainly not enough of a change for a wolverine to sense.  In particular, the Associated Press casually presents idle conjecture as proven fact.  The AP doesn't hesitate to report changes "snowfall patterns and raising sea levels" as if those are well-established facts on which we all agree.

ABC News:  Thanksgiving Dinner 'Could Soon Become Another Victim' of Climate Change.  Thanksgiving "could soon become another victim of climate change," a recent report by ABC News warned.  The report said rising temperatures "threaten the abundance and quality" of ingredients that make up a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.  "As a result, these essential food items could become increasingly scarce and more expensive, potentially forcing families to omit or make substitutions in key recipes on their Thanksgiving menus," the report said.

As Extreme Heat Increases, Heart Attacks Will Rise.  A deadly wave of heart attacks and strokes is headed for the US, borne by extreme heat waves spawned by climate change — and those deaths are most likely to occur in people who are older or Black.  By mid-century, according to research published Monday, cardiovascular deaths linked to extreme heat could triple to almost 5,500 extra deaths per year, if nothing is done to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change and extreme heat events.  And even if the US achieves some emissions control by staying on its current planned path of reductions, heat-related cardiovascular deaths are likely to more than double to 4,300 extra deaths per year.

The Editor says...
Notice that the writer slips in an assertion that "greenhouse gas emissions [...] are driving climate change and extreme heat events" as if that were an indisputable fact.

WHO scientist says warming temperatures to spike dengue cases in US and Europe.  Rising global temperatures are projected to push dengue, a mosquito-borne disease that claims thousands of lives annually, into previously unaffected regions such as the US and Europe.  A scientist from the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a call to health authorities to begin preparations for combating the disease.  Statistics indicate that approximately 20,000 individuals succumb to dengue fever each year, with the majority of fatalities occurring in Asia and South America.  The disease has a fatality rate of one death per 100 patients.  In 2023, up until October, there have been reports of over 4.2 million cases and more than 3,000 dengue-related deaths in 79 countries and territories worldwide, according to data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.  The countries with the highest case counts include India, Brazil, Peru, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Argentina, Mexico, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and Colombia.

The Editor says...
Ask yourself if this premise is credible.  If the high temperature tomorrow is 80 degrees instead of the "normal" temperature of 75 degrees, will a bunch of mosquito-borne diseases suddenly erupt?  No.

Human Health Is Not Being Compromised by Climate Change.  A recent article posted to The European Sting, claims that human health worldwide is threatened by climate change, listing six areas of concern from heat related illness to extreme weather and mental health.  These claims are false.  People are undoubtedly impacted by bad weather and illnesses, as they always have been, but data refutes claims that human emissions of carbon dioxide have caused an increase in the number or severity of extreme weather events or is harming human health in other ways.  Written by Rutvik Raval, the article titled "Climate Change — The Biggest Health Threat Facing Humanity," lists six categories of health-related alleged impacts of climate change.  These include rising temperatures and heat related illness, expansion of vector-borne diseases, water scarcity and waterborne disease, air pollution and respiratory health, food security and malnutrition, extreme weather events and mental health.  Raval especially focuses attention on how climate change is impacting human health in India.

Thailand's tiger turnaround contradicts climate fearmongering.  Thailand's protected forest areas are home to the Indochinese tiger, known by its biological name Panthera tigris corbetti.  Recent population numbers suggest that the tiger is making a comeback.  Tiger populations in two of Thailand's wildlife sanctuaries grew from 42 in 2012 to about 100 in 2022.  The resurgence is one more conservation success story that defies the climate-obsessed mainstream media's doomsday narrative, which has been blaming anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions for real and fabricated declines in animal numbers and even outright extinctions.  Over the past century, the Panthera tigris has seen catastrophic declines in both its population (96 percent), and habitat (95 percent).  The primary cause of the drop in tiger populations in this area has not been climate change but rather hunting.

Navajo sheep herding [is] at risk from climate change.  Climate change, permitting issues and diminishing interest among younger generations are leading to a singular reality:  Navajo raising fewer sheep.  Keeping hundreds of sheep, of historically prized Churro and other breeds, used to be the norm for many families living on a vast reservation that straddles parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.  But today some families have given up raising them all together.  The ones who do report having far fewer sheep, sometimes just a handful.

Climate change blamed for 'concerning' rise of flesh-eating infections.  More than 40 "flesh-eating" infections have been identified in Florida this year amid record-high water temperatures in the North Atlantic.  The bacterium Vibrio vulnificus, which thrives in warm seawater, has killed ten people in the state this year out of 43 infections, giving an estimated case fatality of 23 percent.  Experts have noted a concerning rise in infections over the past two years compared to the previous four, linking it to an extended transmission season due to climate change.

The Editor says...
Really?  Has the climate changed that much in the last four years?

World sugar shortage due to extreme weather threatening Halloween candy prices.  Extreme weather has dealt major blows to the sugar industry worldwide this year, which could cost you more cash to fill up the trick-or-treat bags.  "This has been a very tough year for global sugar.  If you look at the top ten producing countries this year, six of them have had extreme weather," Chief Meteorologist at Everstream Analytics, John Davis, told FOX Weather.  "And the ramification of that is higher prices for anything that you use sugar for, including candy."  He points to drought in Thailand, the fourth-largest producer, cutting production by almost a quarter.  India, the US and Europe suffered flooding, representing the second, sixth and third top producers.

The grave situation at cemeteries amid climate change.  Climate change isn't just creating havoc for the living.  It's coming for our dead.  Great deluges of rain submerge graves and markers.  Swift floods set vaults afloat.  Slopes erode in scenic hillside cemeteries.  And at the seaside, higher seas and storm surges swamp cemeteries and sweep sand away.

The Editor says...
Climate change is not "creating havoc" for anyone.  Rain is normal.  Flooding is common.  They happen every year.  The rain falls on the just and the unjust.  It does not single out black cemeteries for extra havoc.

More Climate Fairy Tales.  It's been a good summer for climate activists who are pushing the false narrative of "climate change."  We had the Canadian wildfires with smoke drifting into other parts of North America.  Then there were hotter than usual temperatures in many parts of the country (it's summertime and I predict temperatures will drop this fall, winter and spring, as usual), followed by a devastating fire in Maui, and then Hurricane Idalia.  Never mind that the fires in Canada might have been prevented if environmentalists had not opposed clearing underbrush and removing old trees.  The same goes for Maui, along with better management of the fire when it first broke out.

Stop Blaming the 'Climate Crisis' for Democrat Mismanagement.  "I don't think anybody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore," said President Joe Biden while touring the damage caused by Hurricane Idalia in Florida last weekend. "Just look around," he urged.  "Historic floods.  I mean, historic floods.  More intense droughts, extreme heat, significant wildfires have caused significant damage," Biden continued in his attempt to blame natural disasters on the "climate crisis."  Biden's claims might be a politically expedient excuse, but it's just that:  an excuse to cover for what is often mismanagement by Democrat leaders.

France calls for an end to cheap flights in Europe.  France wants to scrap €10 (£8.50) airfares and establish minimum ticket prices within the European Union as part of a strategy to reduce air travel and curb emissions.  Clément Beaune, the French transport minister, said the era of rock-bottom airfares has come to an end and that he will be presenting his proposal on regulating prices among low-cost carriers to his colleagues at the EU in the coming days.

"Plane tickets at €10, at a time of ecological transition, this is no longer possible," Mr Beaune said in an interview with the French news magazine L'Obs.  "This does not reflect the price for the planet."

The Editor says...
[#1] The plane is gonna fly, whether you are on it or not.  [#2] A million airplane flights are not going to measurably affect the atmosphere or the weather.  The atmosphere can be sabotaged, I suppose, but normal day-to-day human activity has no harmful effect on the planet.

Stay in your lane, Francis.
Pope Francis Calls on Nations to 'End the Era of Fossil Fuel'.  Pope Francis has doubled down in his personal war on fossil fuels while condemning "extreme practices" such as fracking.  It is time world leaders to "listen to science and institute a rapid and equitable transition to end the era of fossil fuel," the pontiff urges in his message for the Feast of Creation, to be celebrated on September 1.  It is "absurd to permit the continued exploration and expansion of fossil fuel infrastructures," he insists.  "Let us raise our voices to halt this injustice towards the poor and towards our children, who will bear the worst effects of climate change."  "The unrestrained burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests are pushing temperatures higher and leading to massive droughts," the pope declares, a product of "consumerist greed, fueled by selfish hearts."

Climate Change Did Not Cause The Devastation In Maui.  The Maui wildfire, stoked by howling winds, was a raging inferno of 1,000-degree heat that raced along, creating a hellscape at lightning speed before devouring the tourist town of Lahaina.  Due to heavy winds that morning, some local schools were closed, leaving children at home while their parents went to work.  Currently, the death toll stands at 114, but over 1,000 people are still missing, an unknown number of whom are children.  The government's appearance on the scene was not propitious.  When FEMA teams finally arrived, they checked in at three five-star hotels, the Fairmont Kea Lani, Four Seasons, and the Grand Wailea Astoria, where the prices at all three resorts start at $1,000 per night.  Compare that to the one-time payment of $700 that Biden offered to the victims. [...] In fact, there is no connection between alleged anthropogenic climate change and strong hurricanes, an assertion based on flawed data. [...] Hawaii is not experiencing a major drought.  NOAA does show that Hawaii has had a drought problem.  However, it's not caused by "climate change."  Instead, it's just a normal cyclical phenomenon.

Maui had a firebug on the loose and a fancy warning system that didn't work; Hawaii governor blames global warming.  Hawaii had the world's fanciest natural disaster warning system on the planet.  It also had an ongoing firebug problem, and recent academic study warning that the place was very vulnerable to fire catastrophes.  Somehow, none of that figured in the government's fire plan.  The firebug is still out there.  The conditions created for big fires, such as the proliferation of non-native grasses, remain on Maui.  And the fancy emergency warning system somehow didn't work.  Never mind any of that:  Its governor says the problem is global warming.

How Is the Government Preparing for a Cold Winter?  This summer has seen record heat or near-record heat in some places — though every summer sees records in some places — and is said to be on track for a global heat record (though several factors, including increased urbanization — with more heat sensors located closer to heat-generating [sic] concrete — complicate the data).  It was inevitable that many on the left, including Hawaii's Democrat governor, would blame the Maui fires on drought driven by "climate change," despite lack of evidence for a causal relationship.  In a convincing piece in the Washington Examiner, Nicholas Clairmont refutes that claim, noting that "there no evidence climate change ... is the cause of this particular drought trend."

The Editor says...
Concrete retains heat better than dirt and grass, but it does not generate heat.

After devastating fires in Maui, lefties jump in with 'climate change' canards.  A sudden, unexpected, and devastating fire has destroyed the lovely little heritage town of Lahaina on Maui, which for Hawaii, was also a vibrant tourist destination.  Thirty-six people at last count were killed and given that this is early in the catastrophe and communications about evacuations were down early, it may rise.  The town and all its historic artifacts, its Front Street promenade, named one of the "top ten greatest streets" by the American Planning Association, are gone. [...] But some characters are yawping the stupidest, most unhelpful, knee-jerk explanations on a disaster they cannot possibly know the cause of, glibly blaming it all on global warming — and conservatives, of course.

This is one of the stupidest articles I have ever seen on climate change.  I thought when I read this headline that it would say that it was too hot and too dry for crops to grow.  ["]My husband has farmed for 4 decades.  Climate change might end his run.["]  And I thought it was strange that after 160 years of using crude oil and an exponential increase in gas powered farm equipment and 40 years of good farm results that one year would ruin the whole thing and that suddenly farming wouldn't work.  But nope, the problem here is they got too much rain and they didn't get sunny days when they were convenient to harvest so the crop yield is down.

As climate change leads to more and wetter storms, cholera cases are on the rise.  In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of Africa barely a month apart.  Fifty-three people died.  Amid an already-heavy rainy season, the storms Ana and Gombe caused devastation across southern Malawi to homes, crops, and infrastructure.  "That March, we started to see cholera, which is usually endemic in Malawi, becoming an outbreak," said Gerrit Maritz, a deputy representative for health programs in Malawi for the United Nations Children's Fund.

The Editor says...
The cholera problem couldn't possibly be the result of bad sanitation, dirty water, no hospitals, and a poverty rate of 51 percent.  No, it must be global warming.

Climate Change Obsession Is a Real Mental Disorder.  The media wants you to know it's hot outside.  "'Heat health emergency': Nearly half the US at risk," CNN proclaimed last week as temperatures climbed above 90 degrees in much of the country.  If heat waves were as deadly as the press proclaims, Homo sapiens couldn't have survived thousands of years without air conditioning.  Yet here were are.  Humans have shown remarkable resilience and adaptation — at least until modern times, when half of society lost its cool over climate change.  "Extreme Temperatures Are Hurting Our Mental Health," a recent Bloomberg headline warns.  Apparently every social problem under the sun is now attributable to climate change.  But it's alarmist stories about bad weather that are fueling mental derangements worthy of the DSM-5 — not the warm summer air itself.

Strangely, an awful lot of these "climate change" wildfire were started by arsonists, not excess CO2.  [Tweet with video clip]

CNN: Gas Price Spike Due to Climate Change.  On Thursday, CNN hosts Poppy Harlow and Boris Sanchez blamed climate change for the recent surge in gas prices with the former saying that the surge in prices is a reason "to get it in check when it comes to climate change."  On "CNN This Morning," CNN Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans stated, "There [are] a couple of things happening here:  They're still well below last year.  Last year, at this time, we were hitting record highs, right?  $4.30, last year, at this time, today, they're $3.71.  They've been jumping overnight.  Some of these jumps have been pretty big.  One of the reasons is the incessant heat means these refineries have to — are going offline for maintenance, they can't run full throttle when it's 115 with the heat index, just like people can't work full throttle outside or on factory floors when it's so, so hot.  So, that's one of the reasons. [...]"

The Editor says...
The heat index does not affect machinery.  The price of gas is rapidly increasing because Joe Biden (or the anonymous committee that pulls his strings) has done everything possible over the last two years to cripple the petroleum industry.

The splooting squirrel: a true picture of climate change alarmists.  Now, climate alarmists are warning that squirrels are "splooting" too much.  Splooting is when an animal lies on its stomach with its legs kicked out, and the alarmists claim it's because climate change is making the squirrels so hot they're trying to cool off.  That's right.  Relaxed squirrels are an indicator of impending doom.

Climate Fact Check: June 2023 Edition.  Ten more false climate claims from June have already gone bust and are presented below.  [#1] Canadian forest fires caused by climate change?  Smoky American skies caused by Canadian wildfires are not new.  The historical record shows Canadian wildfires have darkened U.S. skies repeatedly since 1706. [...] [#4] Florida strawberries suffering from climate change?  As shown in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chart [not seen here], Florida's strawberry harvests increased nearly 50 percent between 2001 and 2019.  [#5] Summers getting hotter?  The New York Times reported in "Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S." that: "Summer temperatures have become hotter and more extreme in recent decades."  Fact Check.  The New York Times uses the 1951-1980 global cooling period as the baseline temperature and ignores hot summers before 1940.

List: Ten climate lies on 35th anniversary of global warming warning.  It has been 35 years since the start of global warming was declared by climate educator James Hansen and carried on the front page of the New York Times under the headline, "Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate."  Many doomsday calls have followed, but the worst of the warnings have not been seen, according to critics and supporters.  This year, as the anniversary neared, the media stepped up their role in the climate change campaign, blaming warming for the Canadian wildfires and smoke that settled over big U.S. cities, a honey bee die-off, and even a decline in wine production.  But several groups that question the claims are pushing back and just released to [the Washington Examiner] their list of the latest media lies on the issue.

Climate Change Causes AIDS?!?  The enviro-nuts must be getting really desperate.  A bureaucrat from the Philippines actually is claiming that global warming is causing more prostitution, which is increasing the spread of HIV.  I can easily believe that more prostitution is a reciple for more sexually-transmitted diseases, but the assertion that climate change is causing more prostitution is laughably absurd.

Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change.  Authorities busted a Democratic donor for allegedly starting a "ginormous inferno" in Yosemite National Park.  Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed more than 100 homes and injured several firefighters in July 2022.  Edward Fredrick Wackerman (his actual name) of Mariposa, Calif., faces a number of charges including aggravated arson following his arrest on Friday.  The arson suspect has donated $1,775 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, government records show, including a $1,000 donation to Tim Ryan's failed U.S. Senate campaign in 2022 and $400 to the Lincoln Project, a disgraced liberal super PAC.

Man, 71, charged with setting massive Yosemite park fire initially blamed on climate change.  A 71-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly starting a devastating massive forest fire in Yosemite National Park that was previously thought to have been caused by climate change.  Edward Fredrick Wackerman of Mariposa, Calif., was busted Friday on suspicion of arson for allegedly igniting the Oak Fire, which destroyed 127 homes, caused thousands of people to evacuate and ravaged nearly 20,000 acres of vegetation in July 2022.  The suspect is facing charges of suspicion of aggravated arson, arson that causes great bodily injury and arson causing damage or destruction of inhabited structures, the California Department of Forestry said.  It isn't clear how Wackerman may have started the blaze or what finally led to his arrest.

That's Smoke, Not Climate Change.  The Yankees postponed their game with the White Sox.  Exceedingly low visibility forced LaGuardia Airport to ground planes for a time.  By evening the worst had passed, though the smell of something burning lingered.  If only the effects on public policy were equally fleeting.  Evaluating the causes of this complex event calls for humility, curiosity and thoughtfulness.  But politicians are in charge.  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer jumped in front of a camera on Wednesday to proclaim that "we cannot ignore that climate change continues to make these disasters worse."  President Biden called the Canada burn "another stark reminder of the impacts of climate change."  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined the chorus.  Their claims are bunk.

Media blames 'climate change' for Canadian wildfires despite arrest of multiple arsonists.  Despite the arrest of multiple arsonists, the mainstream media in Canada seems intent on attributing the nation's recent wildfires to "climate change."  As wildfires continue to spread across western, and now central and eastern Canada, burning forestland and homes, the mainstream media continues to imply that climate change is the main culprit, despite a growing number of reports showing that arsonists have been arrested for allegedly setting dozens of fires.

Human groundwater usage causing earth to wobble?  According to the pajama boys over at thehill.com, a new study has found that humans have pumped so much groundwater out of the earth that the planet has begun to detectably wobble on its axis.  They admit the "magnitude of the new wobble is slight — a matter of millimeters, which puts it in the same approximate speed category as Earth's slowly drifting continents."  So, perhaps the wobble is actually related to the Earth's slowly drifting continents?  The Hill says the findings, recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, purport to "show the extent to which human action — in the form of dam construction, groundwater drilling, and the burning of fossil fuels — are impacting the very position of the Earth." [...] The "scientists" conducting the study allegedly found that, between 1993 and 2010, human society, largely due to agriculture, had depleted 2,510 gigatons of groundwater, the equivalent of half the volume of Lake Huron.  Half the volume of one lake?  Is that really that calamitous?

The Editor says...
The migration of the poles did not begin in 1993, and there is no reason to believe that human activity caused it.  More comments below.

Earth's tilt has changed by 31 inches thanks to humans — and it could make climate change even WORSE, study warns.  Our insatiable need for water may be keeping us alive, but it's shifting the tilt of the Earth, a new study shows.  Researchers in Korea say the removal of groundwater around the world for drinking and irrigation is altering the Earth's mass and in turn making its axis 'wobble'.  According to the team, we've shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted 31 inches (78.5 cm) east between 1993 and 2010 alone.

The Editor says...
Socialists think you're really stupid.  Does anyone believe that anything we do could make the earth wobble?  Does anyone at the Daily Mail understand how big the Earth is, and how little 31 inches is by comparison?  Is anyone harmed by the migration of the poles?  Apparently the article above is sounding an alarm about a 31 inch peak-to-peak excursion over a period of 17 years.  What happened before 1993?  Is there any historical data showing that the poles did not migrate before the industrial revolution?  Even if everything in the article above is true, and it isn't, what would it take to stop the wobble a planet that has a mass of 5.9722 x 10²⁴ kg?  The only reason to write an alarming newspaper article about a non-problem (that can't be fixed even if it is a problem) is deception:  If the writers can convince you that driving your car is destabilizing the whole world, they might talk you into giving up the freedom that your car represents, along with other freedoms.  I suspect the Earth has been wobbling since about 4,000 years ago, a couple of weeks after Noah got aboard the ark.  Note:  ["]The International Latitude Service was created by the International Geodetic Association in 1899 to study variations in latitude caused by polar motion, precession, or 'wobble' of the Earth's axis.["]  How many cars were on the road in 1899?  How many electric power plants were on line back then?

Canadian Wildfires: not driven by climate change.  Wildfires happen every year throughout the United States and Canada — which is why both countries have designated "wildfire seasons" — and across the globe, but hardly ever get the sustained, nearly apoplectic coverage Canada's fires got last week.  I guess that's because many major broadcast and print media outlets are on the East Coast and seeing the smoke first-hand, which others experience every year or two, brought the impact of fires home to the horrified journalists.  But experiencing the impacts of fires first-hand doesn't prove this year's fires are unusual or caused by climate change, and the evidence shows that they aren't.  History tells us that smoke from wildfires in Canada have periodically darkened or yellowed the skies on the U.S. East Coast, as they did last week.

Shocker: 96% of U.S. climate data is corrupted.  You probably heard how AOC was quick to blame the clouds of smoke wafting down from the Canadian wildfires last week on climate change.  As you likely expected without even needing to check, that turns out to be nonsense.  But the underlying facts that prove its nonsensical nature turn out to be well rooted in science. [...] You should check out the work of veteran meteorologist Anthony Watts of the Heartland Institute.  He's been studying the weather and the climate in general for a very long time.  He travels around the country inspecting meteorological equipment and studies historical weather data from around the world.  One of the first findings he would like the public to be aware of is that not only are wildfires common in many parts of North America, but the reality is that in the 21st century, they have actually been less numerous than they were in the past.  They're just getting more attention from the press and on social media.

Effects Of Deliberately Exaggerating the Risks of Climate Change.  In March of last year, The Washington Post reported on the increased risks of flight turbulence due to climate change.  More recently, the World Economic Forum reiterated this concern in a blog, highlighting that "erratic" clear air turbulence is projected to rise by two or three times in the next few decades.  It is believed that flights are becoming more turbulent due to climate change.  However, it is important to note that despite this, there has been no significant increase in accidents or injuries caused by turbulence over the past 30 years.  In fact, the number of passengers has quadrupled during this time, resulting in a decrease in harmful turbulence activity relative to the increase in passengers, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization.

California Blames 'Climate Change' For Major Insurer's Decision To Stop Covering New Homes.  State Farm will no longer take new homeowner insurance applications in California, a move the state government is blaming on climate change.  The insurance company cited the high cost of construction in the state and the growing threat of catastrophes including wildfires in its Friday announcement.  The California Department of Insurance (CDI) told Axios climate change was driving the issue, making it beyond the state's control.  "The factors driving State Farm's decision are beyond our control, including climate change, reinsurance costs affecting the entire insurance industry, and global inflation," CDI spokesperson Michael Soller told the outlet.  "We have been here before after major wildfires.  What's different is the actions that we are taking with the first-ever insurance discount program for wildfire safety and unprecedented wildfire mitigation investments from the Legislature and Governor."

'Science' Tells Us Energy and Cement Companies Cause Wildfires.  According to a new study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), we can now blame forest fires on energy corporations:  "Coal, oil, and gas companies are now directly linked to worsening forest fires across the western United States."  The study, titled "The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires: Quantifying the Contribution of Major Carbon Producers to Increasing Wildfire Risk," claims that nearly 20 million acres of burned forest "can be attributed to heat-trapping emissions traced to the world's 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers."  The study "offers policymakers, elected officials, and legal experts a scientific basis for holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the impacts of their products and their decades-long deception efforts."

W.H.O. Warns of 9 Million More Annual Deaths from Climate Change.  The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warns in a report released Friday [5/19/2023] that rising temperatures could lead to more than nine million additional deaths each year by the end of the century.  The W.H.O., which has been criticized for its close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), declared in its annual World Health Statistics report that "climate change continues to degrade the environmental and social determinants of physical and mental health, posing enormous risks to us all."

The Editor says...
[#1] Nobody's life is at risk because of one-degree-per-century climate change.  [#2] By the end of this century, all kinds of things might reduce your life expectancy, and the greatest threat is big government.  [#3] Climate change cannot be stopped by legislation, and even if that were possible, it wouldn't be worth the destruction of capitalism and the abandonment of the industrial revolution.

Guess what they're blaming air turbulence on.  Air turbulence has been back in the news recently, with some airline flights being impacted severely enough that people wound up being hospitalized.  But is there really more turbulence being observed or is the media just covering it more intensely leading to more people talking about it?  Well, there is at least one group of meteorologists who claim that the amount of clear air turbulence has been steadily increasing for some time now.  But what's causing this increase?  If your first guess was "racism," this is one of those rare cases where you would be wrong, though I'm sure somebody suggested it.  No, they are going with the other default answer to explain all the world's ills and blaming climate change.

Remembering Earth Day's List of Promised Calamities.  Allow me to wish you a joyous Happy Earth Day!  This means, of course — because this is an environmentalist national holiday, after all — that there is nothing at all happy or joyous about today because we need to focus solely on doom and the promise of our demise. [...] Let us look at the effects on our beaches.  AGW will make the oceans saltier; also, it will lead to the oceans becoming lower in sodium at the same time.  The change in climate is promised to make ocean waves much bigger.  It is also having a negative impact by making the waves... uh, well much smaller.  Also, global warming is going to have a diminishing effect on coral reefs.  The good news is something will help the reefs grow; global warming.  Part of the reason we'll be heating up is due to an increase in clouds which will have heat-trapping effects.  Another reason we'll be heating up is there will be fewer clouds, no longer trapping heat but we will roast in the sunlight.  UNLESS — that increase in clouds will reflect that sunlight and shade the planet.  OR, we'll see a decrease in clouds altogether... which means they will NOT be trapping the heat... nor will they reflect the sun, which is either bad or good, depending.

Transportation secretary Buttigieg blames transportation problems on climate change.  It's hard not to laugh at the deadly earnest, self-righteous inanities spouted by former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who, primarily because of his sexual orientation, was chosen to lead the Department of transportation.  Despite having never fixed the potholes of his home town.  Name a bugaboo the progressives claim bedevils our society and Pete will tell you that it is at the root of transportation problems.  Let's see.  Racism?  Check.  Next: climate "change."  Yep, it's to blame for our transportation problems (because?) as he just testified yesterday:  "On one hand, our transportation systems are still grappling with the consequences of the pandemic, climate change, and decades of disinvestment."  [Video clip]  Sexism?  That's coming up, with an assist from Rosa DeLauro:  [Video clip]

Young people are too scared to have kids — and climate change hysteria is to blame.  This is terrible.  After all, if almost half our young people are too frightened to start families, there won't be a civilisation left to save.  Their fear isn't just tragic, however.  It's also pathetic.  The future may be fraught with danger, but then, the future always has been.  Say you were young during the Black Death, or the Blitz.  Or, for that matter, at any point during the many millennia before the invention of penicillin, or electricity, or dentists.  Did all those generations of young people think, "We can't possibly bring children into this hideous world.  The future is simply too bleak"?  No.  We know they didn't.  Because if they had, we wouldn't be here.

The Editor says...
These extremely fragile snowflakes actually believe that global warming is about to render the Earth uninhabitable, based on nothing but fear.  Facts don't matter any more, only sensationalism.

Dartmouth Researchers: Global Warming Leading to More Home Runs in MLB.  Endangered species and coastal cities are far from the only victims of so-called climate change.  According to a Dartmouth study, the pitchers of Major League Baseball are now falling victim to the scourge of global warming.  According to a study published on Friday, the Dartmouth team claims that at least 500 major league home runs over the past decade can be directly attributed to global warming.  The researchers further claim that several hundred additional round-trippers per season will be caused by global warming.  "We show that global warming has increased home runs in baseball by reducing game time air density.  Without gameplay adaptations, future warming will intensify this effect alongside other climate impacts," the study states.  The study's authors claim to have studied more than 100,000 Major League Baseball games between 1962 and 2019.  Going even more in depth, the authors investigated more than 220,000 individually batted balls from 2015-2019.

Rebuttal:
If Global Warming Is Causing More Homeruns in MLB, It's Also Causing More Strikeouts.  It stands to reason, that if climate change was converting long flyballs into homeruns, it would also be converting shallow fly balls into long flyballs and we would see an increase in the number of sacrifice flyouts.  [Lots and lots of baseball statistics.]

Tornadoes, Climate Change, and the Media.  After the recent devasting tornadoes in the Midwest and South, some media outlets scrambled to try to link the weather events to climate change, when in fact there is no hard data to support this.  In fact, tornado data refute claims that tornadoes are increasing in number, range, or severity.  However, Salon, Axios, and the Washington Post among others ran articles suggesting climate change is expanding the length of tornado season and area over which tornadoes commonly form, as well as adding ingredients to the atmosphere to make more and bigger tornadoes. [...] These claims of increased storms due to more heat and moisture are misleading at best and demonstrate a clear lack of understanding of how weather fronts collide to form tornadoes.

Are we about to lose 40% of our species?  The preservationist group NatureServe just released a report concluding that some 40% of animal species in the US will go extinct in the near future as a result of climate change.  Their predictions may turn out not to be quite accurate, since there are other factors at work that determine which species survive and which go the way of the dodo bird and ivory-billed woodpecker.  The analysis the report depends on has been severely criticized for lack of rigor by Canadian and Finnish biostatisticians.  Anticipated losses among a small percentage of already dangerously endangered species is applied to the vast majority of U.S. animal populations showing no signs of diminishing in numbers.  The polar bear, to the contrary, has recovered dramatically from a low of less than 10,000 adults in 1975 to more than 30,000 in the most recent surveys.

Climate Alarmists Keep Getting It Wrong on Crop Production.  Even a broken clock is right twice a day, but not the mainstream media on crop production.  How many times have we seen articles like this one, from Bloomberg: "Global Warming Making India Vulnerable to Extreme Weather Events," where the author claims that climate change is "eroding farm productivity," especially wheat crops, which suffered from recent drought.  Two conditions must exist for this claim to be true.  First, weather events like droughts and monsoon rains must be more frequent and/or intense in India, or irregular.  Second, wheat production and yields must show a decline.  Both conditions are false.  So-called "weather whiplash" has not been proven anywhere it's been asserted to have happened.  Weather constantly changes.  The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has taken a moderate position on the last few years of relatively dry weather in India.  The IMD explains that the monsoon season is in a dry epoch.  The Pacific Ocean's El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is currently emerging from a triple-dipped La Niña, which pushed the scales towards cooler, dryer weather in India.

'Scientists' announce record cold due to a warming earth.  Leftists are pushing an agenda to destroy industries that produce reasonably priced energy by claiming those industries cause an existential threat of warming, that is causing extreme changes to the climate, that is threatening our survival.  Record cold temperatures, along with record snow and rain are obviously causing skepticism, so the pushers of the theory decided it was necessary to put out a piece of pure propaganda: that record cold temperatures occur because the earth is warming. [...] People claim they can control and predict temperatures 100 years out, yet they somehow failed to predict this wet and cold winter.  Their dire predictions in the past have been completely wrong; why should we now enact tyrannical policies based on future predictions? If everything that we have been told caused warming actually caused warming, we would not see record cold and snow.  We would not have had a 35-year cooling period between 1940-1975.  Temperatures have always fluctuated and always will.

'Climate change' blamed for 8000 gun deaths in New Study in Journal of the American Medical Association.  The global warming activists have shifted the playing field, so shootings and murder statistics are now used as some sort of 'proof' of man-made global warming.  Instead of looking at political factors like the lax enforcement of crime due to the Defund the Police movement, they would rather make outlandish claims linking shootings to climate change!  The JAMA study also claims that we must address 'climate change' to lower gun deaths.  The study implies if you don't support the Green New Deal, then you are supporting the shooting of 8000 people.

Joe Biden Puts Liberal Theories to the Test.  Theory 5 — The government can regulate the weather:  This theory is problematic for leftists because they're having difficulty describing the observation — planetary warming or more severe winters.  While they're not sure it's anthropogenic global warming or anthropogenic climate change, they are sure that it's anthropogenic (our fault) and that more government control can fix it.  Joe has rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, canceled petrochemical pipelines, restricted domestic energy exploration, and taken regulatory actions to move America from fossil fuel powered cars to fossil fuel-powered electric cars.  Use of carbon-based fuels continues to rise, as does strip-mining to access lithium.  However, the weather remains unchanged (L.A.  had a blizzard warning last week).

Your Fault: Snow Hits Southern California.  If the world went back into an ice age, or even just another Little Ice Age type climate, they'd still blame heat trapping gasses from your life.  It's a cult.

When Stuff Happens — Blame it on Climate Change!  This recent headline in the Daily Mail makes the case for climate change's omnipotence, "Deadly fungal infection 'Valley Fever' that kills one in 100 sufferers is spreading across the US because of climate change".  This is one of many of the magical powers of climate change, but let's take a deeper look at "Valley Fever."  Valley Fever is a fungal infection due to coccidioidomycosis.  According to the CDC, "Coccidioides lives in dust and soil in some areas in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and South America.  In the United States, Coccidioides lives in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah."  If this fungal infection is caused by omnipotent climate change, it must be a recent phenomenon.  After all, climate change hasn't been around that long.  When did climate change become a thing, replacing global warming?  According to the United Nations, global warming, "is widely believed to have been coined in 1975 by Columbia University geochemist Wallace Broecker." [...] If Valley Fever is due to climate change, it should not have existed before climate change was inaugurated in the late 1970s.  What if it started almost a century earlier?

Women and girls are disproportionately affected by climate change.  The adverse effects of climate change have impacted numerous areas of human health and well-being.  In most parts of the world, women are least able to mitigate such changes, so they are an appropriate focus in a recent research paper.

UN Advisor Claims 'climate change is triggering more earthquakes'.  ["]On Monday, earthquakes in my country Turkey and neighboring Syria left a trail of unprecedented devastation and a death toll surpassing 16,000 people at the last count.  We do not know for sure what triggered this horrific natural disaster, but we do know there is growing scientific evidence that climate change increases the risk of such tremors, together with tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.["]

California's Green Debacle.  Climate change, which serves as the all-purpose villain for every adverse event today, is the driving force behind California's energy policies.  Whether in response to summer drought and wildfires, winter rains and mudslides, or alleged price-gouging by climate-denying oil companies, the state has adopted energy policies that will supposedly vanquish climate change, much as Hollywood's heroes vanquish evildoers.

Oh no!  Climate alarmists lost yet another round to reality.  Pretty much every time there's a major storm of some kind, climate change devotees claim that the storm is the direct result of humanity's evil desire to warm their homes and drive cars.  And yet it feels like this just keeps happening:  [Tweets]  The usual suspects just flocked to blame these latest storms on climate warming or global change or whatever they're calling it now.  And yet the most knowledgable people are right now like, "Nah."

Scientists say California storms were more hype than climate change.  As California emerges from a two-week bout of deadly atmospheric rivers, a number of climate researchers say the recent storms appear to be typical of the intense, periodic rains the state has experienced throughout its history and not the result of global warming.  Although scientists are still studying the size and severity of storms that killed 19 people and caused up to $1 billion in damage, initial assessments suggest the destruction had more to do with California's historic drought-to-deluge cycles, mountainous topography and aging flood infrastructure than it did with climate-altering greenhouse gasses.  Although the media and some officials were quick to link a series of powerful storms to climate change, researchers interviewed by The Times said they had yet to see evidence of that connection.

The Editor says...
Greenhouse gases do not alter the climate, they are the climate.

Too Wet?  Too Dry?  It's All Climate Change!  Climate change had other names over the years.  In the 1970s it was "global cooling" with predictions of a coming ice age.  NPR, the guardians of all proper knowledge and thought, first used the term "global warming" in 1989.  It doesn't make sense, at least to most logical people, that the planet can be both warming and cooling on a global scale, outside of normal seasonal variations, so the term "climate change" was popularized to encompass all weather events.  "Climate change" was first mentioned in 1975, but this was a time when climate scientists could not decide if temperatures were rising or falling, attributing sinister causes rather than natural and cyclic warming and cooling trends which have long preceded humans and their activities.  Since then, climate change has engulfed more than temperature, adding weather events such as hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, droughts, and flooding.  It seems that any deviation from a sunny day with temperatures in the mid '70s with a light breeze is evidence of climate change and Republicans scheming to destroy the planet. [...] Climate change causes both not enough and too much snow.  How does that work?  But it's not only snow but water, both not enough and too much, all due to omnipotent climate change.

Get Ready for 'Climate Change Death' Tracking.  With Covid more or less spent as a coercive lever, the regime needs a new body count to justify continued undemocratic policymaking and execution.  Climate change stands at the ready.  So be prepared to start hearing about "climate change death" numbers.  Anytime someone runs himself over with his truck in the snow, it will be labeled a climate change death.  The cause of death isn't the point.  The number is what matters.  If the authorities can gin up sizable enough death numbers, it can use them to support its climate change agenda and create a sense of urgency.  Anything somewhat weather-related will do.  The messaging?  Climate change kills people now.  We need to stop climate change.  To do so, you must surrender more and more of your human rights and freedoms. [...] We've seen this before.  We know how it works.  Alarmism speaks to the personal health and safety of you and everyone around you.  You could die if something isn't done.  You could die if the person next to you doesn't make the required sacrifices.  After all, if you care about the planet and your fellow humans, it's the least you can do.  Do your part.  Just give up the car, they say.  Just ride the bus.  Just move into the city, and live in an apartment.  Just turn in your guns.  Just have less than two kids or none at all.

Extreme Weather Events [are] Declining.  Some years ago, environmental alarmists decided to hedge their bets by talking about "climate change" rather than "global warming."  These days, any inconvenient weather event is chalked up to "climate change."  If a tornado hits Florida, it's climate change.  If rain spoils your picnic, it's climate change.  But are severe weather events actually increasing?  No, they are not: [...] Most of our reporters — ignorant, mendacious, or both — routinely recite as fact that the number of extreme weather events is rising, due to climate change.  It simply isn't true.

Climate change: is there anything it can't do?  We already know that climate change is responsible for every hot day, cold day, rainfall, drought, hurricane, famine, and war.  Literally none of these things existed prior to the burning of fossil fuels, and once we return to a primitive form of existence or invent a miracle form of energy based upon James Cameron's Unobtainium or something similar all these evils will merely be memories.  The Washington Post adding another bad thing onto the list of crimes committed by the oil companies and all capitalists: domestic violence.  Who knew?  I assumed that domestic violence was caused by family members behaving very badly, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and the long list of social ills we all mistakenly attributed it to.  But it turns out that CO2 is the root cause.

Focus on emotion over rational thinking says Washington state Department of Health.  The Washington state Department of Health's climate curriculum instructs teachers to focus on "emotions" over "rational thinking", according to curriculum lesson plans.  The department recently released a five-part curriculum to help students learn about the "intersections of biological, societal, and environmental issues."  The second phase of the curriculum, "Climate Change & Pregnancy," tells educators and students to "pay attention" to their emotions as "for too long" science has caused "rational thinking" to be prioritized.  "Climate change and pregnancy"?  Pray tell, "educators," does climate change cause pregnancy?  Prevent it?  Or both at the same time?  In any case, man caused climate change is causing "pregnancy change," right?

Air Turbulence?  Like Everything Else, Blame Climate Change.  Air turbulence has been around since, well, air.  When Fred Flintstone took flying lessons he immediately ran into turbulence. [...] There are a lot of reasons for turbulence but "climate change" isn't in the top 20 reasons — regardless of what alarmists want to claim.  Even if it is on the list at all, there is little to no reason to blame it for something that fliers and passengers have felt since the Wrights flew down a windy beach at Kitty Hawk.

U.S. to pay $75M to relocate three tribes impacted by climate change.  The Biden administration announced it will pay $75 million to relocate three Native American tribes whose communities are being impacted by climate change.  The Interior Department's relocation grants, announced at the White House Tribal Nations Summit on Wednesday, will provide $25 million each to Washington State's Quinault Indian Nation, Alaska's Newtok Village and Alaska's Native Village of Napakiak.

Germany [is] cutting back meat production to fight global warming.  Germany is still caught up in the demands of the climate change lobby to reduce its carbon footprint drastically in the coming years.  One part of this initiative, similar to calls we've seen from activists in the United States, was a mandate to reduce all livestock on German farms by 50%.  Farmers have been protesting the decision in the same way they recently did in the Netherlands this summer, but the initiative is moving forward beginning this year.  Now, to the great surprise of nobody who has been paying attention, the German Meat Industry Association has reported that the country will be facing a severe meat shortage by the time spring arrives and consumers should expect prices to skyrocket, potentially doubling in some cases.  It would appear that some people in the German government have never heard of something called the law of supply and demand.  But at least they're going to defeat global warming, right?

Lake Effect Snow is Increasing Because of Global Warming.  You may have heard that the forecast for Buffalo, New York, is for up to 5 feet of snow between now and Sunday.  That has resulted in the NFL moving the game to Detroit.  And you may be wondering if lake effect snow is happening more often.  Well, yes it is.  The reason?  Global Warming.

The Editor says...
If Buffalo didn't get five feet of snow last November, the "global warming" must have happened this year.  But there was no "global warming" this year or last year.

Democrats blaming climate change for Hurricane Ian at odds with science, experts say.  Multiple experts contacted by Fox News Digital argued that there isn't sufficient evidence to suggest climate change caused Hurricane Ian or any individual natural disaster.  The experts' comments come as a series of media outlets, Democrats and progressive commentators continue to blame the hurricane on human-caused global warming.  Hurricane Ian slammed into southwest Florida as a Category 4 storm on Wednesday, causing more than a million residents to lose power and prompting stark safety warnings from Florida officials.  "What they're trying to do is politicize the pain and suffering of these people to promote their green agenda," Gregory Wrightstone, the executive director of the climate policy think tank CO2 Coalition, told Fox News Digital in an interview.  "Well, their policies and their agenda to promote renewables will do far greater economic destruction to the country and Florida."

Study in famed scientific journal claims 'climate change is making people angrier online'.  Another lunatic 'study' has proven anew that Western "science" has gone completely woke and is no longer a useful part of our culture.  For hundreds of years, Western scientists made incredible discoveries and huge contributions to humankind, especially in the fields of medicine and technology.  But today, clearly the Western scientific community is nothing more than a clown show pushing propaganda and narratives, as evidenced by a new 'study' published in the once-prestigious journal The Lancet.  As reported by Bloomberg News:  "Climate change is making us angrier online.  A lot angrier.  Hateful comments spike on social media when temperatures rise above 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research have found."

US media do Somalians a disservice by blaming climate change for famine.  Ishaan Tharoor, a foreign affairs columnist at the Washington Post, didn't mince words about a looming famine in Somalia.  "Ordinary Somalis ... have contributed little to the emissions that are warming the planet.  But they are on the front lines of the catastrophic climatic events scientists believe will only grow more common in the years to come."  On cue, National Public Radio picked up the story, allowing the author to expound unchallenged on "the connection between the hunger crisis, the war in Ukraine and climate change."  If the media really want to "follow the science," however, they got cause and effect wrong.  Certainly, the Horn of Africa does face drought and famine in Somalia.  It may be a bit of an exaggeration to blame climate change, though, given the cyclical nature of drought in the Horn.  When scientists voice hypotheses, they seek to prove them by isolating variables to rule out any other explanation.  Here is the problem:  Suggesting emissions cause climate change, which in turn explains famine, may conform with journalists' politics — but not with science.

Is Extreme Weather Causing the World's Rivers to Dry Up?  A recent CNN article entitled "The World's Rivers are Drying Up from Extreme Weather.  See How 6 Look from Space" purports to argue that rivers such as the Colorado, Yangtze, Rhine, Po, Loire, and Danube are dwindling due to "a painful lack of rain and relentless heat waves." [...] Let's start close to home.  The Colorado River is cited as the first example, and, although CNN attributes its drying to the "historic drought in the US West," they do not suggest that this drought is human induced.  They do mention, however, that "around 40 million people in seven states and Mexico rely on the river's water for drinking, agriculture and electricity."  But an evaluation of the current conditions from the USGS National Water Dashboard indicates, as shown below, that many stream gauge stations in western Colorado and Utah are near normal, and in New Mexico and Arizona, they are above and much above normal.

European Central Bank Chief Blames Climate Change for Red-Hot Inflation.  The Chief of the European Central Bank (ECB) has said that climate change is behind soaring inflation, stating that droughts and famines are driving up prices.  ECB Chief Christine Lagarde made the comments in an interview with the French outlet Madame Figaro, on July 13.  An English translation of the interview was published on Aug. 25.  Lagarde said that more climate disasters could see prices rise even further.  "If more and more climate disasters, droughts, and famines occur throughout the world, there will be repercussions on prices, on insurance premiums, and on the financial sector," Lagard said. "We need to take that into account."

As Climate Hysteria Hits Fever Pitch, Democrat Senate Candidate Links 'Racism' to 'Global Warming'.  While this latest episode of weather exploitation isn't the first time the left has absurdly asserted that "racism," is in part to blame for "climate change" — AKA: "the existential threat to mankind" — it's definitely among the most preposterous.

Biden admin says climate change can 'force' military intervention.  On Tuesday [7/19/2022], President Joe Biden's administration said climate change can "force" military invention after once again calling it a "national security issue."  John Kirby, Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council, said during a press conference that climate change is a "driver of actual missions" because it creates "instability" and "insecurity."  "It's a driver of actual missions, because climate change creates instability, which creates insecurity in some places.  And you can end up — the fighting in Syria started, really, as a result of a drought.  And so, there's — there's a — it can actually drive military missions and force the military to become involved in places and at times where they wouldn't have had to otherwise," Kirby said.

The Biden administration says climate change drives the military.  After reading about the press conference that John Kirby, Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council, held on Tuesday [7/19/2022], it's tempting to ask, "Climate change — is there anything it can't do?"  According to Kirby, climate change is a national security issue because it will be a major driver of military strategy world instability, and military development. [...] In the same way, once you call "climate change" out as a military driver, there's nothing you cannot do in terms of expenditure and action.  And indeed, there remains the distinct possibility that the administration will find a domestic enemy connected to climate change that requires the U.S. military to be activated on American soil, with its weapons aimed at American citizens.

Nearly $2 trillion of damage inflicted on other countries by US emissions.  The US has inflicted more than $1.9tn in damage to other countries from the effects of its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis that has provided the first measurement of nations' liability in stoking the climate crisis.  The huge volume of planet-heating gases pumped out by the US, the largest historical emitter, has caused such harm to other, mostly poor, countries through heatwaves, crop failures and other consequences that the US is responsible for $1.91tn in lost global income since 1990, the study found.  This puts the US ahead of China, currently the world's leading emitter, Russian, India and Brazil as the next largest contributors to global economic damage through their emissions.  Combined, these five leading culprits have caused a total of $6tn in losses worldwide, or about 11% of annual global GDP, since 1990 by fueling climate breakdown.

The Editor says...
[#1]  The writers at The Guardian (dot com) apparently think there's not enough room on the internet to spell out "trillion."  When discussing a matter in which trillions are at stake, I think it's important to spell it out.
[#2]  There is no climate crisis.  There is no climate breakdown.  There has been no perceptible global warming in the last 50 years.  This "study" complaining about lost income as a result of "emissions" on the other side of the world is an obvious attempt at a shakedown.
[#3]  When I drive my car in Texas, it does not cause a heat wave in some other country.  (Texas is enduring a heat wave of its own.)  I think it's safe to say that all the drivers on all the freeways in the U.S. have not caused a single crop failure anywhere in the world.
[#4]  The value of some of those countries does not add up to two trillion dollars.
[#5]  If U.S. emissions are harmful, and they aren't, the U.S. is probably the least offender of all.  Poor countries are the worst polluters.
[#6]  If carbon dioxide is the issue, the U.S. is doing everybody else a favor, because the additional CO2 will make their crops grow better.
[#7]  If "U.S. emissions" are damaging other countries, why aren't they hurting the U.S.?

This may or may not be off-topic:
World Economic Forum:  Gas Prices Must Go Even Higher — to Save Democracy.  The World Economic Forum (WEF) released a position paper Monday that inezxorably links two claimed global crises as one — "climate change" and the "decline of democracy."  It says fighting the former can save the latter as long as consumers stop burning coal, oil, and gas in exchange for green renewables.  The WEF paper argues for the past 15 years, democracy has been in decline worldwide.

The next climate change target: cement.  When it comes to battling climate change, all of the eco-warriors out there will be quick to tell you what the real threat to the future of the world is.  It's fossil fuels, right?  Oil, coal, natural gas... they are all working together behind the scenes to bring down the entire planet.  But did you know that there's another, potentially even bigger villain hiding out there in plain sight?  If you live anywhere with a greater population density than a wooden shack in a forest, you can probably step out your door and see it immediately.  It's concrete.  That's right, the stuff that comprises the sidewalks, buildings, and most every other type of construction project you can imagine.  And the process of creating concrete and allowing it to cure after it is poured is dumping vast, increasing amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.  The biggest culprit in this story is reportedly China, but that doesn't mean that you privileged Americans strolling around on your fancy sidewalks are going to be given a pass by the environmentalists.

The green agenda's role in global inflation.  It turns out that the chief regulator of the UK economy (the sixth largest in the world) and his predecessor were far more concerned with the putative risks from climate change than with developments in geopolitics.  The Bank of England's webpages could have been written by an XR activist.  'Climate change creates financial risks and economic consequences,' it claims.  'These risks and consequences matter for our mission to maintain monetary and financial stability.'  Endless volumes of reports and links to pages after pages make the case, citing equally endless scientific reports that I have always considered to be suspect.

Claim: Climate Change is Making US Classrooms Too Hot.  Apparently in the South schools are fitted with air conditioning, but in Philadelphia and Baltimore schools cannot afford a bit of insulation and some air conditioners. [...] My first impulse was to slam Principal Richard Gordon for being a useless teacher making excuses, but in 2020 Principal Gordon received "National Principal of the Year" award — so maybe the problem is not him.  And reading the article carefully, Principal Gordon just said the classrooms were too hot — maybe the global warming claims were added to the story by the journalist.  And to be fair, the pictures of the schools I've viewed, they look like ovens — large blank sun facing walls made of bricks, no obvious attempt to mitigate the heat, say by covering the walls with heat reflective paint.  Of course, that leaves the question — why can't Baltimore and Philadelphia schools afford a bit of building maintenance and air-conditioned comfort for their students?

Climate change to blame for monkeypox outbreak, says professor.  "Climate change is driving animal populations out of their normal ranges and human populations into areas where animals live," Professor Staines of DCU explained to On The Record with Gavan Reilly.  "There's a very detailed analysis of about 40 years of data published in [the journal] Nature a few months ago that documents what has happened and predicts what may happen in the future and it's very much driven now by climate change — and to an extent by human population growth.  "But climate change is pushing people into cities, it's pushing animals into closer proximity with people and we're seeing connections that we never saw before.  "So this is what living with climate change looks like."

The Editor says...
Just because you see something you've never seen before doesn't mean it was caused by global warming.

The Big Lie That 'Climate Change' Caused Today's Runaway Inflation.  If you were attuned even slightly to the use of the English language, the moment they changed the phrase "global warming" to "climate change," you knew they were lying.  Otherwise, why make that change?  "Global warming" warned of something specific, provable or not.  "Climate change" was factually meaningless, almost to the extent of idiocy.  The climate, along with the weather, has been changing since the beginning of the planet and has never stopped.  You were being propagandized.  Some people realized it, but too many didn't.  These were words of mass formation psychosis before the phrase was coined.  The old term that most of us lived by and actually encouraged the improvement of the natural world — "conservation" — had vanished from the lexicon, first replaced by "global warming" and then literally disappeared by "climate change."  This allowed for many things to go on that made no sense, unless you thought exclusively of control and the money and power that flowed through it.

Time Mag is Wrong, Climate Change Will Not Make Food Scarce.  A Time Magazine article ascribes the potential for a major food crisis to two sources:  the war in Ukraine and climate change.  Concerning the latter claim, Time is simply wrong.  While the war in Ukraine and sanctions on Russian exports have had an impact on food prices, there is no evidence climate warming has or will harm food production worldwide.  The Time piece, titled "The Food Crisis Can't Handle Ukraine War and Climate Change," says the current high grocery prices are merely a sample of an even worse crisis to come.

Climate Change Did Not Cause South Africa's Tragic Floods.  A Google news search for the term "climate change," over the past few days turns up dozens of stories in corporate media outlets blaming climate change for recent deadly floods in South Africa.  Although many of the stories accurately captured the pathos of the human tragedy resulting from South Africa's floods, they all mispresented the facts: human caused climate change did not cause the recent floods.  History shows, because of its topography and regional ocean circulation patterns, floods regularly occur in South Africa.  No data support the claim South Africa's floods are increasing in number or intensity.  The death and damage caused by the April 2022 flooding is due to rising populations in flood zones, poverty, and poor infrastructure.

Linking Extreme Cold and Snow to Global Warming:  An Extreme Climate Conundrum?  Linking heat waves, floods, and droughts to Global Warming is logical, as the IPCC scientists have been telling again and again that such Warm Weather Events would increase in a warmer world.  But linking extreme cold temperatures across the prairies and in parts of BC to Global Warming as a Vancouver weather-forecaster did few days ago, while explaining frigid weather to the CBC TV anchor is stretching the credibility of the art of forecasting[.]  Reasonable Canadians are beginning to ask:  Is there any climate event that is not linked to global warming?

Boulder Wildfires and Media Gaslighting Over Global Warming.  The recent Marshall fire in Boulder, Colorado and neighboring communities was the most destructive fire in Colorado history, moving quickly and relentlessly, destroying more than 1,000 homes, leaving an apocalyptic level of destruction in its wake. [...] The fire was quickly and predictably blamed on global warming, now called climate change, although a changing climate, including moisture and drought, are nothing new to Colorado and have been occurring long before gas-guzzling SUVs and air conditioners were a staple of American life.  Don't tell the corporate media, however.  This is how they reported on the Boulder wildfires.  From NBC, "How climate change primed Colorado for a rare December wildfire."  The Washington Post agreed, "How extreme climate conditions fueled unprecedented Colorado fire."  An echo from Colorado Public Radio, "Why a fire scientist sees climate fingerprints on the suburban Boulder County fires."  And from Axios, "Climate changes linked to Colorado's fire disaster."

CBS Mornings co-host warns of more frequent undersea volcanoes like that near Tonga because of climate change.  Island nations and territories like Tonga are the most celebrated victims used by the doomsday cult of global warming climate change to guilt trip the industrialized world (except China) into impoverishing itself with unreliable and expensive "green" energy sources.  They are supposedly facing imminent doom from rising sea levels.  The fact that such islands are generally inhabited by non-whites makes them all the more appealing as victims of the rich Caucasians that are the cause of all the world's problems, in the demonology of this pseudo-religion.  That context has to be at the root of the flagrant idiocy purveyed yesterday on CBS television, which, in the distant past, was known as "The Tiffany Network" for its purported high quality and classiness.

Good News! It's Snowing!  Recently, Molly Taft at Gizmodo proclaimed, "California's Epic Snowstorms Are Great News."  Great news, indeed, with snowfall running some 150% above normal for the Sierra Nevadas, or "200% of average for snow water equivalent."  For years, climate alarmists bemoaned the multiyear drought that, they insisted, would utterly "destroy" California.  The drought, they wrote, was the product of global warming and was thus more or less permanent.  Say goodbye to California agriculture; life in California cities; and, eventually, life on Earth.  Those claims were false, as this year's massive Sierra snow-pack shows.  When the snow melts in the spring, that water will fill the reservoirs, irrigate the crops, and help fulfill the needs of California cities.  Even before the strong start to this year's snowfall, the 2012-2016 drought had begun to abate.

Climate change means you could see more armadillos in North Carolina.  Over the past couple years, there has been an increase in armadillo sightings across the Carolinas, and officials with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission says it's due to climate change.  Armadillos have been spotted in 23 counties across North Carolina, including Wake and Durham.  Since 2007, there have been as many as 30 sightings of armadillos in Wake County.  Greg Batts, an N.C. Wildlife biologist in Zebulon, said he documented two armadillos on the N.C. Highway 55 widening project in August in 2020.  One had been run over by a car and another had a den near the overpass, he said.

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If there are more armadillos in North Carolina, [#1] who cares?  And [#2] they aren't there because of global warming, and they aren't "climate refugees."  There are lots of armadillos in Texas, but they only time most people see an armadillo is after the critter has been killed on the side of a rural highway.

Pandemic Response Will Be Used As Model for "Climate Crisis" Response.  [Scroll down]  We can see media hustlers ginning up climate fear in real time.  Instead of allowing the investigation into whether downed power lines combined with poor urban planning resulted in Colorado's winter wildfires to be completed, many in the press immediately interject "climate crisis" into reports.  [Tweet]  Laughing off the delusions of climate activists can no longer be the only course of action.  Cambridge University Press has just published a paper that argues "authoritarian environmentalism" in the mode of the pandemic is appropriate to address the alleged climate "emergency". [...] The failures of the pandemic response model should make us seriously question all our climate models and the projections being made from them.

Experts Refute Claims Linking Deadly Tornadoes to Climate Change.  Experts have pushed back against claims that this weekend's tragic tornadoes in Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee can be clearly linked to manmade climate change.  In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, professor and climate economist Richard S.J. Tol of the University of Sussex explained why it is so difficult to connect weather events on the scale of a tornado to shifts in the Earth's climate.  "Tornadoes are small, rarely more than 3 kilometers in diameter.  The most advanced climate models, however, cannot see things that are smaller than 9 by 9 km.  Climate models can therefore tell us very little about tornadoes," he told The Epoch Times via email.  "Data are not great, but suggest that there is no upward or downward trend in tornado frequency or severity," he added.

Joe Biden vs. the Tornados.  Speaking in Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, President Joe Biden blamed the recent deadly tornado outbreak in Kentucky on "climate change."  Biden stated, "The fact is we all know everything is more intense when the climate is warming and obviously it has some impact here."  Biden's statement is laughably inept and easily disproved.  All one has to do is look past the opinions, pronouncements, and hand waving and concentrate on what science and data actually say about the issues.

Study: 'Climate change makes children vulnerable to infectious diseases'.  The Centre of Excellence in Climate Change Research, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has explored the association between climate parameters and infectious diseases in a three-year follow-up prospective cohort of 461 children under 16-years-of-age in Varanasi city.  Accounting for extensive socioeconomic household data and child anthropometric measurements, the researchers established that climate parameters like temperature, humidity, rainfall, solar radiation, and wind speed were significantly associated with the infectious diseases such as gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory diseases, vector-borne diseases, and skin diseases, in children in Varanasi.

It's Not a Weather Tragedy Until the Left Blames It On Climate Change.  As we all know, climate change is the superhero of the left.  It can do anything.  Climate change can create tornadoes.  It can make hurricanes worse.  It can cause floods — and droughts — which, when you think about it, is a pretty good trick.  Climate change can cause intense heat waves and polar vortex cold snaps.  Climate change can even cause earthquakes, so we're told.  And because it can cause earthquakes, it can also cause tsunamis.  There isn't anything that climate change can't do.  Maybe that's why the left worships climate change as a god.  As night follows day, as summer follows spring, as peanut butter follows jelly, it's inevitable that even before the dozens of dead bodies across four states are cold, the left would be trotting out their go-to climate scientists to explain to all of us dullards why this tornado outbreak proves, beyond a reasonable doubt, that climate change is guilty of mass murder.

Biden blames Kentucky tornado damage on 'climate change' to score political points.  Like a broken-down vaudeville performer of old, Joe Biden has just a few acts in his repertoire and he's sticking to them.  One of those acts that he drags out as often as possible is climate change.  So it was that, after the terrible damage when a tornado devastated Mayfield, Kentucky, Biden immediately said that the tornado is proof of global warming.  (Other Democrats piled on with the same message.)  However, the reality is that extreme weather events are getting less frequent.

Climate Change Is Making Albatross Couples Split Up.  Not all relationships end in "happily ever after," and birds are no exception.  While more than 90 percent of bird species form monogamous couples, many of these will end in divorce.  The reasons for splitting up are as varied in birds as they are in humans, and often revolve around things like poor compatibility or slacking off by one partner.  However, new research has found a surprising cause of divorce: climate change.

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How much has the climate changed in the lifetime of any albatross, so that the current generation behaves differently than previous generations?  And how would an albatross detect a change in the climate from last year to this year?

WaPo: 'How climate change & extreme weather are crimping America's pie supply'.  WaPo:  For months, supply chain issues and labor shortages have been putting the squeeze on Mike's Pies.  But another powerful factor — climate change — is heightening those challenges.  Its impact is less visible but more enduring, and its consequences are playing out right as the food industry is struggling to avoid holiday season shortages.  Many of the ingredients in Mike's Pies' pies — wheat, berries, honey, soybean oil, among numerous others — have been hit hard by climate and weather effects, including droughts, wildfires and power shutdowns around the world. ... "We're seeing more dramatic weather shifts, [and] these factors influence dairymen in these parts of the country," said Galloway, who buys most of his milk from Wisconsin.

I guess the climate must have changed abruptly in January.
Dem Rep Says Biden's Border Crisis is REALLY Caused by Climate Change.  Democrat Congresswoman Veronica Escobar confused millions of Americans on the steps of the US Capitol Wednesday [11/17/2021] when she claimed "much of the migration" crisis at the US-border is a result of global warming.  "We are seeing longer, hotter summers...  That's killing people.  For those who have been covering the movement of migrants across our hemisphere, there is no doubt that much of that migration is coming from the climate crisis...  Unless we do something, we should expect all of that humanitarian need to continue," said the Congresswoman.  "We can take action this week...  Building a new economy, ensuring there is equity, and we are able to have a planet where we can live!" she added.

Our World Gone (Climate) Mad.  This is how batty our world has become:  According to a local newspaper, a British Columbia doctor diagnosed a patient to be suffering from "climate change."  Which might be the case, since the global and local climates are always in a state of change, and can at times be severe enough to cause injuries and death, though risk of climate-related fatalities has fallen 99% over the last 100 years.  But was the good doctor referring to natural climate cycles?  Or was his diagnosis intended as a complaint about modern living that requires the consumption of fossil fuels?  No one would go wrong by guessing the latter.

Canadian becomes world's first patient to be diagnosed as suffering from 'climate change'.  A Canadian facing breathing issues was diagnosed as possibly the first patient in the world suffering from "climate change," as doctors said heatwaves and poor air quality were responsible for his condition.  Dr Kyle Merritt, responsible for the diagnosis of the senior citizen from Nelson in British Columbia who suffered from asthma, said this was the first time in a decade that he wrote climate change as a cause of suffering.

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[#1] Poor air quality is not the same as climate change.  Air pollution has been around long before anyone ever came up with "global warming."  [#2] Doctors don't know everything, and some doctors are political activists.  Dr. Fauci, for example.  [#3] Was this "the first time in a decade," or the first-ever diagnosis of its kind?

U.N. Warns of Global 'Famine, Chaos, Terrorism and... War' if COP26 Climate Summit Fails.  Any failure by the Cop26 summit in Glasgow to deliver an agreement on future trans-national climate controls could plunge the world into chaos, sparking migration crises alongside food shortages, political disorder and war, the U.N.'s top climate official warned Sunday [10/24/2021].  Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, made her bleak prediction ahead of the opening of the convention on November 1.

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If the United Nations implodes and disappears tomorrow, the climate will still change just as slowly and relentlessly as it always has.  No amount of taxing and spending will change the weather.  But it is the job of a "top climate official" to keep sounding the alarm — never actually fixing the problem, of course — and it is the news media's job to report and repeat whatever the government says.  War is not caused by bad weather.  Neither is any of the other stuff listed above.

Biden Administration Issues Report on Threats of Climate Change:  Airlines Grounded, Food Shortages, New Global Conflicts.  President Joe Biden wasted no time in making fighting so-called climate change a priority, including issuing an executive order on January 27, 2020, tasking several federal agencies with developing plans to address the issue.  And now those agencies have released a report citing the most pressing threats facing the United States.

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Ask yourself how "climate change" could lead to airplanes being grounded.  Airplanes operate in a 200-degree range of temperatures.  Probably more than that.  One more degree won't make any difference.  Food grows in all kinds of weather.  "Global conflicts" happen all the time, and they aren't motivated by bad weather.

When climate change causes flood and also causes droughts.  Perhaps because of desperation, or just plain ignorance, climate alarmists are now blaming both droughts and floods on global warming/climate change.  Where it rains or doesn't is largely determined by prevailing winds, not atmospheric heat-trapping.  And yet, the chair of the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors recently posted an op-ed in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat stating such nonsense — along with blaming her son's pneumonia on climate change, rather than the opportunistic bacteria that infected him while his immune system was weakened by a cold.  What used to just seem like a hoax no longer leaves any room for doubt.  And yet, there are way too many (ahem) useful idiots predisposed to fear for the end of the world.

Warming Causes Cooling, Says Climate Scientist.  Let's get this right:  global warming caused the record cold in Texas last winter.  And the climate will be even colder for decades to come because the climate is warming, so let's spend trillions to make it colder.  Global warming is making us cold, so we need to make it colder, or else the Earth will burn up.  That's the conclusion of climate scientists in a new report.  Now that the climate appears to be cooling, at least in many heavily populated regions, environmentalists are desperate to salvage their theory of global warming since that theory is the only way that government will be able to take control of the energy industry, which constitutes 8% of the U.S. economy.  If greens really believed that carbon emissions were a threat to the planet, they would focus on Asia, not on the U.S., where we have already cut carbon emissions to 1990 levels.  But little is said about China, India, Indonesia, and other carbon-emitters — and nothing in the Paris climate agreement addresses the vastly greater emissions of those countries.

A complete list of things caused by global warming.  A long list of seemingly unrelated problems, all blamed on global warming.

Democrats more likely than Republicans to believe false claims on climate change: survey.  A Google survey of 1,500 U.S. adults released last week by Environmental Progress found Democrats were more likely than Republicans "to believe false information about basic aspects of climate science," starting with the impact of natural disasters.  The results found 42% of Democrats and 35% of Republicans agreed that "More people are dying of natural disasters," even though such deaths have declined by more than 90% worldwide over the last century.  U.S. deaths from natural disasters fell from 413 to 320 from 2019-20, according to the International Disaster Database.

No, CBS News, Global Warming Did Not Create Taliban Victory.  CBS News published an article today claiming global warming was a major factor in the Taliban overrunning Afghanistan and creating murderous chaos throughout the country, rather than political ineptitude.  CBS News argues that global warming created horrible weather conditions that decimated crop production during the past 30 years in the country, and the Taliban fed off the misery experienced by Afghan farmers.  The objective truth is entirely the opposite. [...] CBS News claims that climate change in Afghanistan during "the last three decades ... have destroyed crops and left people hungry."  As you can see, however, Afghanistan has fully doubled its crop yields during the past three decades.

Where The Sun Don't Shine:  Climate Alarmists' Thinking.  "We're building," reads the headline of an op-ed written by Sen. Bernie Sanders for the British Guardian, "Congress' strongest-ever climate bill."  Why?  "Because the planet is in peril." [...] Backed by nothing more than a bloated certitude, the Vermont socialist declares "the planet will face enormous and irreversible damage" if "the United States, China and the rest of the world do not act extremely aggressively to cut carbon emissions." [...] Human CO2 emissions, in the febrile minds of Sanders and other members of the climate doomsday cult, is responsible for a nearly uncountable number of ills:  hotter temperatures, more potent storms, wildfires, melting ice caps and glaciers, armed conflict, migration, poverty, famine, drought, floods, species extinction, weeds, pests ... and a host of conditions and events so absurd no half-rational person would ever think of them.

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[#1] Carbon dioxide is not carbon.  Carbon dioxide is plant food.  It is not a pollutant.  There is no "climate emergency."  The planet is not "in peril."  [#2]  If you're waiting for "China and the rest of the world... to cut carbon [dioxide] emissions," you're simply out of luck, because China has ambitious plans, and those plans apparently involve a lot of electric power, since they're rapidly expanding the number of coal-fired power plants in their country.  Obviously, they couldn't care less about carbon dioxide, even though their politicians are way off to the left of America's socialist Democrats.  Any action taken by the U.S. to curtail CO2 emissions will only damage the U.S. economy (which appears to be the socialists' goal) unless China does the same.

Two Charts Destroy Big Lie About 'Climate Change' And Wildfires.  It's that time of year again, the season of headlines routinely screaming about "record" amounts of acreage burned from out-of-control wildfires caused by, of course, "climate change."  But is it true?  Is global warming driving a surge in wildfires?  The answer is no.  The media started again this week with the release of the United Nation's latest dire climate change report, based on the same faulty models and filled with more apocalyptic predictions that won't come true. [...] It's become an annual summer mantra from the media, this time driven by large wildfires that happen to coincide with the release of the U.N. report.  The truth is, in the U.S. we are not at a "record" for wildfire burning by a longshot.  As the charts below show, wildfire burns were far worse in the early- to mid-20th century, with massive amounts of acreage charred before there was any significant global warming to speak of.

Climate Change Doesn't Cause All Disasters.  The media say that natural disasters are a result of climate change and we need to adopt radical policies to combat them.  But this framing tells only a small part of what is scientifically known.  Take the recent flooding in Germany and Belgium, which many, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are blaming on climate change.  Yet a new study of more than 10,000 rivers around the world shows that most rivers now flood less.  What used to be a 50-year flood in the 1970s happens every 152 years today, likely due to urbanization, flood-control measures, and changes in climate.  Some rivers still flood, and reporters flock there, but more scare stories don't mean more global flooding.  The river Ahr, where most of the German flood deaths occurred, had a spectacular flow on July 14, 2021, but it was lower than deadly flows in 1804 and 1910.  The real cause of increased fatalities from riverine flooding in Germany and many other places is more people building settlements on flood plains, leaving the water no place to go.  Instead of more solar panels and wind turbines to combat climate change, riverside communities need better water management.  And foremost, they need a well-functioning warning system so they can evacuate before disaster strikes.  Here, Germany has failed spectacularly.

Biden's Baleful Border Betrayal.  Is there anything the left won't blame on its fantastical scapegoat, climate change?  Don't bet on it.  Its latest dodge is blaming the border crisis, which it created, on the climate crisis, which it invented.  A Politico article is headlined, "It's Not a Border Crisis.  It's a Climate Crisis."  That's a convenient twofer.  Never let an opportunity to blame a crisis on climate change go to waste.  Well played.

This week's global warming predictions.  Every single day there is something alarming in the news about climate change.  Click on any headline about a natural disaster like a forest fire or a flood or a hurricane, and there will be dire warnings in the article about how this particular phenomenon is worse than ever before because of climate change.  Google the words "climate change" and you can learn about how it is making poison ivy itchier, glaciers smaller, and the world generally less pleasant to live in.  It is even being theorized that there could be a connection between earthquakes and climate change.

Louisiana 'climate refugees' still awaiting resettlement after 5 years.  Five years into a nearly $50 million federal grant to move this Gulf community threatened by rising sea levels, a new house has yet to be built.  Officials say that will change by the end of the year, but on the isolated island people say they have heard that one before.  "It's been five and a half years, and they're just starting to put the foundation down for the first house," said Johnny Tamplet, a 66-year-old island resident.  "And this is supposed to be the showcase for moving a community that's vanishing because of global warming?"

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[#1] If the sea level is rising, $50 million won't stop it.  [#2] There are no "climate refugees," but there's no shortage of people who hear about 50-million-dollar giveaways and want a piece of it.  If the sea level is rising, stop waving money around and the residents along the coast will deal with it or move.

Spoiler:  No.
Is Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming Really, Really the Cause of the Great Pacific Northwest Heat Wave?  The alarmists' latest claim is that "climate change" is what underlies the heat wave from which the Pacific Northwest has been suffering for the past several weeks. [...] And the Democrats are already exploiting the heat wave to pass Green New Deal-related legislation in Oregon and other states.  As previously discussed here, Oregon wants to convert the electric grid completely to green energy and hydroelectric sources by 2040.  Sane Oregonians are shaking their heads at the non-science that drives Oregon Democrats and other GND advocates in their infrastructure planning dreams.  And make no mistake, The Hologram's $6 trillion infrastructure agenda contains a heavy dose of GND boondoggles.

If this assessment is accurate, why doesn't every building in Florida collapse?
Joe Biden Suggests Global Warming and Rising Sea Levels May Have Contributed to Florida Condo Collapse.  Joe Biden traveled to Surfside, Florida on Thursday to deliver remarks on the collapsed condo.  Last Thursday morning a portion of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida collapsed.  The death toll rose to 18 on Thursday with 145 people unaccounted for.  A reporter asked Biden what he learned about the collapsed condo in his meeting with Governor DeSantis and investigators.  Biden immediately suggested global warming, storms and rising sea levels may have contributed to the collapse.

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Global warming (or cooling) happens all the time, usually at a rate of less than two degrees per century.  The day-to-day temperature routinely changes 20 or 30 degrees in 24 hours, and may change 80 or 90 degrees every six months.  That doesn't cause buildings to collapse.  So temperature change is out.  Sea levels also change slowly:  About one eighth of an inch per year.*  Since that condo building was built, the sea level may have increased five inches.  Part of the building may be below sea level; but if so, that was likely the case when construction started, and (assuming the city issued a building permit) that was dealt with appropriately.  Joe Biden is not a civil engineer.  (Nor am I.)  Joe Biden's job is to say what he's told to say, and the people telling him what to say will exploit any sensational event to expand and strengthen the already-bloated federal government.

Biden's Energy Sec States The Miami Highrise Collapse Was Caused By Climate Change.  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm implied that climate change could have been a cause of the tragic residential building collapse in Surfside, Fla., last week.  Granholm was asked if climate change could have played a role in the building's collapse during a CNN interview on Tuesday [6/29/2021].  [Video clip]

The Utter Uselessness of Climate Change 'Science'.  Whatever the trend, climate change activists have been quick to find a new, scary rationale to explain it.  "Within about a decade, the Great Lakes have gone from record low levels to record high levels, a stunningly fast swing," claimed the enlightened folks at the Alliance for the Great Lakes.  A quick look at the charts shows this claim to be false for each of the Great Lakes, but I digress.  "Scientists are in agreement that the sharp shifts in water levels are due to climate change," the Alliance folks continued.  "More specifically a warming climate will continue to cause extreme weather, including severe floods and droughts, which spells disaster for lakeside homeowners, towns and cities, tourism, and shipping."  Let's see.  In the 1930s, a substantial warming period caused a major shrinkage in the size of the lakes.  In the 2010s, a "tiny bump in air temperatures" caused the lakes to shrink anew.  In the 2020s a "warming climate" was producing "severe floods."  This isn't science.  This is sophistry of the genus Marxist.

St. Paul Public Schools cancels remaining classes due to hot weather.  St. Paul Public Schools announced Tuesday [6/8/2021] classes at all schools in the district are canceled due to hot weather.  The announcement states schools will be closed Wednesday through Friday, which is also the remainder of the school year. [...] "Two-thirds of St. Paul schools are not air-conditioned," said Kevin Burns, a spokesperson for SPPS.  "We did open up the last couple of night, opened up our buildings to let in quote-unquote, cooler air.  But with low temperatures in the 70s, that cooler air didn't really occur."

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[#1] The article above never mentions exactly how hot the weather is.  Is it 90 degrees outside?  More that that?  What a tough life you snowflakes have!  The weather is so hot in Minnesota that two thirds of the schools have no air conditioning.  [#2] Is this too-hot-for-school problem a recent development?  Has the weather warmed up this year more than any previous year?  Might be global warming!  If you Minnesota leftists really believe global warming is about to develop into a catastrophic thermal runaway state, you should install air conditioners in all public buildings right away!

Scientists Claim 'Climate Change' [is] Causing 'Fires That Refuse to Die'.  As reported by The New York Times, fires in far northern forests that smolder throughout the wet, cold winters and pop up again in the spring could become more common because of climate change.  The Times cites a study published in the journal Nature last week which posits the theory that "overwintering fires" in boreal forests are associated with "hot summers caused by climate change."  ("Oddly," I always thought hot summers were caused by weather.)

Galápagos Islands tourist attraction Darwin's Arch collapses.  Darwin's Arch in the Galápagos Islands, "considered one of the best places on the planet to dive" and observe marine species, has collapsed, the Ministry of Environment for Ecuador has announced. [...] Although the ministry said the collapse of the 140-feet-high rock formation Monday was due to natural erosion, it casts a spotlight on a region that the United Nations has classified as "one of the world's most vulnerable places to the effects of climate change," per the New York Times.

Kamala Harris blames climate change for immigration crisis at U.S.-Mexico border.  The Biden administration is reframing the migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the influx results not from any White House actions, but rather from climate change in Central America's Northern Triangle of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.  Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been tasked with leading the White House's response to the crisis, made the argument this week during a speech before the Conference of the Americas in Washington.  "The citizens of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras are leaving their homes at alarming rates.  But there's a fundamental truth behind that headline," Ms. Harris said.  "They leave only when they feel they must ... And so we are focused on addressing both the acute factors and the root causes of migration."

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I've said this before, but I don't mind saying it every week, if necessary:  The weather on the Mexican side of the border is the same as the weather on the American side.  If you migrated all the way from Guatemala, you might consider stopping in Mexico City if better weather is your concern.  (I'll pause here while you consider the logic.)  No, of course the climate is no reason to move to the United States.  Food stamps, public housing, CHIP, WIC, AFDC and other free stuff are more powerful motivations.  The United States also welcomes the newcomers with Spanish-language radio and TV.  The climate change excuse is a baseless canard, designed to make climate change itself sound more ominous than it really is.  When you listen to the news media, think for yourself!

Talking the Talk on 'Climate Change'.  [Regarding "climate refugees"] But the former Foreign Secretary said it first in 2010, and he thinks his forecast has been borne out by events:  In Iraq, farmers were driven to join ISIS once opportunities to provide for their families dried up along with local water sources.  In Somalia, jihadists have cut off water supplies to punish areas of the country outside of their control.  And in Syria, social unrest, exacerbated by droughts driving Syrian farmers into cities, spilled over into civil war just a few short months after my remarks, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and millions scattered across the world.  But the problem with these examples is that they are the effects of civil war, terrorism, and oppressive government rather than of "climate change."  It's possible that climate change may have played a part in making them worse — as the Russian winter complicated Napoleon's invasion of Russia — but it would never have caused them in the absence of war, terrorism, and oppression.  Most of Syria's neighbors, after all, have helped refugees rather than persecuting and robbing them.  And there are far easier and less dangerous ways of adapting to small rises in temperature than press-ganging your neighbors or ethnically cleansing them.

Earth's Axis Has Been Shifted by Climate Change, Study Says.  Climate change has contributed to the shifting of Earth's axis of rotation, according to new research.  Earth's geographic north and south poles — where the planet's axis of rotation intersects with its surface — are not fixed.  Changes in where the Earth's mass is distributed can cause the axis, and the poles, to move.  Melting glaciers caused a significant amount of water to shift, which scientists have now said helped the locations of the poles accelerate eastward.  It is estimated that since 1980, the poles' positions have moved about 4 meters (13 feet).

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[#1] The poles migrate constantly.  Use your favorite non-Google search engine to find "Chandler wobble."  The same thing is happening to Mars, where there are no coal-fired power plants or internal-combustion engines.  [#2] If the "poles accelerate eastward," what does that mean?  If the North Pole moves east, the South Pole moves west.  The net result is zero.  [#3] The article above lacks specifics.  In my opinion, it was intentionally written to be vague.  "Melting glaciers caused a significant amount of water to shift," it says.  What is that significant amount?  Is that the only place in the world where ice melts?

CBS Blames Climate Change for Border Crisis, Not Biden.  On Thursday [4/8/2021], CBS This Morning tried to convince viewers that the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border was being caused by climate change instead of Biden administration policies that were encouraging migrants to make the dangerous journey.  The left-wing environmental agenda was conveniently used to deflect blame from the President's mishandling of the unfolding humanitarian disaster.  "This week we've also been showing you the roots of the border crisis, why people make the dangerous journey to the U.S. in the first place," co-host Anthony Mason touted as he teed up a report "from Guatemala on how climate change is forcing many into a difficult choice." The

Nancy Pelosi Says Climate Change is Causing Illegal Aliens to Head North to U.S.A..  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said in a virtual press conference on Thursday that climate change is one of the factors causing illegal aliens to head North out of Central America toward the United States.  "Before COVID, a few months — oh, about half a year before COVID — I did take a delegation to the Northern Triangle — speaking of travel — to see what the causes of migration were," Pelosi said.

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Is the climate in Juarez any different from El Paso?  Is the climate in Matamoros any different than Brownsville?  No, there's something very different about this side of the border, and it's not the weather.

NBC's Chuck Todd:  A Lot People Believe More Pandemics 'Inevitable' Because of Climate Change.  NBC anchor Chuck Todd said Sunday [3/14/2021] on NBC's "Meet the Press" that a lot of people believe it is "inevitable" we'll have more pandemics in the future because of "climate change."

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Chuck Todd made this statement as part of a "question" for Dr. Anthony Fauci, who then failed to take the bait, and didn't mention climate change in his answer.  Chuck Todd attempted to inject global warming into a discussion where it has no place.  That's fake news.

Pelosi: Climate Change Causing 'Humanitarian Challenge' at the Border.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that climate change has contributed to the surge of migrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.  Pelosi said, "There are more children, about 600, 700 more children, unaccompanied children coming over the border.  This is a humanitarian challenge to all of us.  What the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct that in the children's interest. [...]" [...] She added, "My most recent trip to the northern triangle, that would be Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador.  You saw the impact of climate change.  These people were leaving because of the drought.  They couldn't farm, and they were seeking other ways to survive. [...]"

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Ms. Pelosi offers no evidence (nor is there any to be had) that illegal immigration is motivated by climate change, or any proof that the climate on the Mexican side of the border is any worse than the climate on this side.

Why The Texas Blackout Has The Greens So Scared:  Deflecting blame to a more exciting apocalypse.  [Scroll down]  Why does the media (and entire global warming establishment) find it so important to blame global warming for the current cold spell?  Why is it so important to exonerate green power for the debacle in Texas?  The inhabitants of this country, from kindergarten on, are being indoctrinated to believe in the supposed existential crisis of a warming planet.  Evidence that cooling means warming has to be quickly marshaled lest the public come to credit its lying eyes and, a terrifying prospect, start to question the unfalsifiable dogma it has been told is "rock solid science."  It might even ridicule the now decades old claims by climate scientists, like David Viner of the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia that snow would all but vanish in a few years.

John Kerry endorses 'climate weirding' term, warns of doomsday within nine years.  John Kerry says the world faces a climate change doomsday within nine years unless drastic action is taken now.  The comment by President Biden's special envoy for climate change came during a segment for CBS' "Eye on Earth" hosted by senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy.  "Some people get hung up on the term 'global warming' and say, 'well, I thought everything's supposed to get warmer?'  I heard one scientist say this is really 'global weirding.'  Is that a better way to think of this?"  Mr. Tracy asked Friday while referencing a recent cold snap causing havoc across the nation.

John Kerry Blames Frigid Temperatures and Record Cold on Global Warming, Says We have 9 Years Left to Save the Planet.  Joe Biden's Special Climate Envoy John Kerry said that the record cold temperatures we are seeing are because of global warming.  Kerry, who flies on private jets, owns a mega yacht and several mansions, said that we only have 9 years left to save the planet from a catastrophe.  Joe Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Accord on Friday [2/19/2021] and John Kerry said it is still not aggressive enough to prevent catastrophe.  According to Kerry, "global warming" is now "global weirding" since he is unable to explain why frigid temperatures took Texas hostage this week.

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[#1] Nine years from now, John Kerry's political career will be over, and he will be hidden away somewhere, unavailable for comment, when his prediction falls flat.  [#2] If we only have nine years left, what will the weather be like in 8½ years?

Climate change "may have played a key role" in coronavirus pandemic, study says.  Human-caused climate change "may have played a key role" in the coronavirus pandemic.  That's the conclusion of a new study which examined how changes in climate have transformed the forests of Southeast Asia, resulting in an explosion of bat species in the region.  The researchers found that, due to changes in vegetation over the past 100 years, an additional 40 species of bat have moved into the region, carrying with them 100 more types of bat-borne coronaviruses.  Bats are known carriers of coronaviruses, with various species carrying thousands of different types.  Many scientists believe the virus that started the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic originated in bats in southern China's Yunnan province or neighboring areas before it crossed paths with humans.  These findings have scientists concerned about the probability that climate change will make future pandemics more likely.

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[#1] What changes took place in the climate, sufficient to alter the forests of Southeast Asia any more than anywhere else?  [#2] If the climate changes took place over the last 100 years, that would include a few decades in which internal-combustion engines were very uncommon.  [#3] Why did 100 years of climate change manifest in this way in a single year?  [#4] It is far more likely that Covid-19 was cooked up in a Chinese lab, it escaped into the wild, it was more or less intentionally spread all over the world, and its arrival in the U.S. was used as a convenient excuse for all sorts of political mischief.

More about Covid-19.

Don't fall for simplistic claims about wildfires and global warming.  [Scroll down]  Every fire is different.  The reasons each fire turns out to be milder or more dangerous than the others can include a wide variety of causes and effects.  Random day-to-day wind patterns can turn a seemingly harmless blaze into a massive conflagration.  The frequency and severity of fire can also be affected by long-term drought patterns that predate modern mass carbon emissions by centuries.  Oceanic weather patterns such as "La Nina" can also change the pattern and course of Western U.S. wildfires, and man's increasing encroachment on natural habitats tends to make them more damaging to human life and property.  Does that mean global warming doesn't affect wildfires?  Of course not.  We assume it has some effect.

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Until the last few sentences, the writer was making sense.  But then he [or she] lost me.  There is no extraordinary global warming.  Therefore global warming is not a factor in the California wildfires.  Until there is about 400 degrees of warming, hot weather won't ignite trees.

Western Wildfires Are Due to Arson and Stupidity, Not Climate Change.  Unfortunately, we are living in a world where facts don't matter much anymore.  For instance, the wildfires that have swept across the western United States over the past few weeks are being almost universally blamed on climate change, even though the facts tell otherwise.  The fires in California and Oregon are not due to climate change.  They are due to arson and sheer stupidity on the part of many, including those who are responsible for the environmental stewardship that is supposed to prevent them in the first place.

US report warns climate change could create economic chaos.  The far-reaching consequences of climate change have the ability to create chaos in the financial system and disrupt the American economy, according to a federal report released Wednesday [9/9/2020].  The report, the first of its kind by a US government entity, calls for Congress to swiftly impose a price on carbon and urges financial regulators to "more urgently and decisively" work to understand and blunt the looming economic damage from climate change.  "Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system and to its ability to sustain the American economy," the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's climate subcommittee wrote.

Wild weather fuels global-warming debate as Al Gore warns of 'unabated climate crisis'.  A burst of wild September weather brought a "climate crisis" warning Tuesday [9/8/2020] from Al Gore as Californians struggled with heat and wildfires, Atlantic storm trackers raced through the alphabet and Coloradans traded their flip-flops for snow boots. [...] "It reached a record high of 121 degrees F in LA county over the weekend," Mr. Gore tweeted Tuesday.  "Extreme heat is fueling a longer, more intense, and more destructive wildfire season in CA.  This is what an unabated climate crisis looks like."  Not so fast, said James Taylor, president of the free market Heartland Institute.  He pointed to National Interagency Fire Center data showing that the U.S. acreage burned by wildfires was four times higher in the early 1930s.  "There's a reason why this is called wildfire season, just as there's a reason why this is called hurricane season, because these are events that have always occurred," Mr. Taylor said.  "Before there were coal-fired plants and SUVs, we had wildfires."

Climate change will make world too hot for 60 percent of fish species.  Fish are at a far greater risk from climate change than previously thought, as researchers have shown that embryos and spawning adults are more susceptible to warming oceans.  In a worst-case scenario of 5°C of global warming, up to 60 percent of fish species around the world would be unable to cope with temperatures in their geographical range by 2100, when different stages of their lives are taken into consideration.  Even if humanity meets the Paris deal's tough goal of holding warming to 1.5°C, it would be too hot for 10 percent of fish.

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If the fish (or the birds or the mammals) don't adapt, evolve, or migrate, maybe they'll die.  But that's called survival of the fittest which is taught as some kind of gospel in the public schools, by the same teachers who are constantly pushing for change.

Climate change linked to pregnancy risks especially for black mothers.  Exposure to air pollution and high temperatures driven by climate change have been linked to negative effects on pregnancies across the US, according to a landmark new study.  Pregnant women exposed to hazardous environmental conditions are more likely to have babies who are premature, underweight or stillborn, with black mothers and their infants most at risk.  The investigation, published on Thursday, is the first to provide "big picture evidence" of the links between newborns and climate change in the US population, analysing data on 32.8 million births between 2007 and 2019.

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Here's another way to look at it:  Poor people don't have the money for any kind of prenatal doctor visits.  Many of them give birth in the local Emergency Room, and that's the baby's first and only encounter with a doctor.  Those who live in big cities with air quality problems face the same risks as those who live in the middle of nowhere — but there are more of them in the cities.  From that, one could concoct a study showing that air pollution is the problem.  You could just as easily claim that light pollution, noise, and sirens are the cause.

Climate change could crack open 'nuclear coffin' in Pacific.  Climate change is cracking open "a nuclear tomb" filled with radioactive waste, according to a recent investigation.  The Runit Dome is supposed to be holding more than three million cubic feet of waste from bombs detonated on the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 50s.  However, an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and Columbia University has revealed that the "concrete tomb" is leaking.

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This story has been around for years.  It is not news.  It has to do with age and nothing to do with climate change.

Pope says coronavirus pandemic could be nature's response to climate crisis.  Pope Francis has said the coronavirus pandemic is one of "nature's responses" to humans ignoring the current ecological crisis.  In an email interview published Wednesday [4/8/2020] in The Tablet and Commonwealth magazines, the pontiff said the outbreak offered an opportunity to slow down the rate of production and consumption and to learn to understand and contemplate the natural world.

Global cooling / global warming / climate change / extreme weather is now called climate breakdown.
England could face droughts in 20 years due to climate breakdown - report.  England is in danger of experiencing droughts within 20 years unless action is taken to combat the impact of the climate crisis on water availability, the public spending watchdog says.  The National Audit Office (NAO), in a report published on Wednesday, says some parts of England, especially the south-east, are at risk of running out of water owing to decreased rainfall and a need to cut the amount taken from natural waterways.

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The world's best weather forecasters, equipped with some of the most powerful computers available, cannot accurately predict the weather more than a few days in advance.  Predictions of droughts that might happen 20 years from now should be viewed as highly speculative.  Lots of things could happen in the next 20 years.  Pronouncements like this might necessitate a new category on this page:  events that haven't happened yet, but are blamed on global warming anyway.

Climate Change is Not Decimating Bees.  Several media outlets — namely National Public Radio — are touting a tall tale that climate change is decimating bee populations throughout North America.  The (false) alarm is based on a February 7 study published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  The study, however, is deeply flawed and does not change the very low likelihood of climate change seriously impacting bee populations.  After examining the study, titled "Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents" — one immediately notices that there is a key issue missing that is not discussed in the paper at all:  Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).  In non-scientific jargon, CCD occurs when entire hives suddenly experience population crashes.  CCD has been called the honeybee's biggest enemy by scientific researchers. [...] Neither the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency nor the International Union for Conservation of Nature believe a climate-caused bee crisis is on the horizon.

How a World Without Borders Became a Ward With No Exit.  A New York Times reporter argues that "the fires that have burned across Australia are not just destroying lives, or turning forests as large as nations into ashen moonscapes [they mean] the end of Australia as we know it." [...] "We have seen," she added, "the unfolding wings of climate change."

They're serious.
Why were whales increasingly caught in crab lines?  Because of the climate crisis.  When humpback whales began to appear in large numbers off the California coast in 2015 and 2016, people celebrated the comeback of the whales after a near-miss with extinction.  However, the excitement was quickly met with new worries — the whales increasingly got caught up in fishermen's crab ropes.  By 2016, there were more than 50 recorded entanglements that left whales injured or killed.  Whales got ropes tangled around their mouths, making it difficult for them to eat.  Crab lines cut through tissue and caused infections.  Although whales and fishing had coexisted for decades, this was a new problem.  So what was driving it?  A new study published in the journal Nature Communications points at climate breakdown as a factor in the mass entanglements.

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There is no climate crisis.  Certainly, there is no "climate breakdown."  When reading climate propaganda, it is necessary to use your head more than the writer did.

World needs to prepare for 'millions' of climate refugees:  U.N..  The world needs to prepare for millions of people being driven from their homes by the impact of climate change, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday [1/21/2020].  Speaking to Reuters at the World Economic Forum, Filippo Grandi said a U.N. ruling this week meant those fleeing as a result of climate change deserved international protection, and that it had broad implications for governments.

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The whole world doesn't need to prepare, just the United States; because the U.S. is where all "climate refugees" are sent.  Not because the climate is any better here, but because the whole purpose of the global warming scam is wealth redistribution.  In reality, there are no climate refugees.  Nobody is having to leave his home country because the weather is suddenly so terrible; and if he must, it is only necessary to move a few hundred miles.

Why "global warming" came to be called "climate change".  When the accelerated warming trend that began in the 1980s ran out of steam in 1997, what would become an extended leveling-off period set in.  Instead of acknowledging their dire predictions of unstoppable rising temperatures were embarrassingly wrong, climate doomsayers came up with a new tag for the alleged threat.  What was once referred to almost exclusively as "global warming" was quietly given an alter ego: "climate change."  Since global temperatures were in a virtual flatline, claims of cataclysmic warming were no longer believable. [...] Since runaway warming wasn't happening, they concocted the specious narrative that extreme weather events, every one of them, are caused by, you guessed it:  climate change.  Almost overnight, climate change was made the scapegoat for every severe hurricane, drought, flood, heat wave and blizzard that appeared, as if such unpleasant things had never before occurred.

This is what our future looks like if climate change goes unchecked.  Melting ice is stressing our planet.  Sea levels are shifting.  Volcanoes and fault lines are stirring.  The Earth's axis is tipping.  We could be in for a rough ride ahead.

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Melting ice is nothing new, and it does not stress the planet.  How does the sea level shift?  That's a new one.  Does the writer know something about water that the rest of us don't?  What thinking person would claim that climate change affects volcanoes and fault lines?  It would be far more accurate to say that climate change (if any) has caused an increase in fake news and baseless tabloid sensationalism.

Climate Change Could Be Making Birds Smaller.  In the spring and fall migration seasons each year, billions of birds wind through the central U.S. as they soar the skies between Latin America and Canada.  For many, the journey is deadly.  Recent research from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in New York estimates that a whopping 600 million birds in the U.S. die every year after crashing into tall buildings.  And for traveling birds, Chicago — where a skyline of glass and steel stretches across a heavily trafficked migration route — may be the most perilous of all U.S. cities.  Many strike the windows of McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America.  Yet these tragic collisions have borne surprising scientific fruit.

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The writer at Discover Magazine would like to imply that big capitalist buildings are slaughtering innocent birds who are just going about their business.  Somehow the article doesn't mention bird collisions with windmills.

Don't blame all 'weird' weather on climate change.  Why can't the great and good of the climate establishment mention higher temperatures, disappearing sea ice and rising sea levels without also throwing in floods, droughts, hurricanes and wildfires?  Al Gore does it, David Attenborough does it and UN Secretary-General António Guterres did it at the opening of his annual climate beanfeast in Spain on Monday.  You know the sort of thing: we're heading for more extreme weather, 'weather weirding' or whatever.  There is hardly a single adverse weather condition which does not now attract some comment blaming it on man-made climate change.  It matters because while there is good evidence of rising temperatures, evidence for wilder weather is tenuous at best.

Forget Paris and stop panicking over the climate.  It will surely bring joy to the band's many haters, but Coldplay will not tour in support of its new album.  The reason for the hiatus should give everyone pause:  Chris Martin announced that his band will not tour because of global warming.  The band reasoned that its musical tours have an intolerably large carbon footprint.  As absurd as this might seem, it's at least refreshing to see someone practice what he professes.  After all, if you really believe that the world is about to end because of humanity's use of energy, then energy-sucking frivolities such as musical tours are rightly the first thing to go.  But that's not all.  If you believe the alarmist predictions, then it's really not enough just to give up your concerts or even your car.

Republicans Will Live to Regret Joining Climate Alarmists.  Climate alarmists blame rising, man-made CO2 emissions for supposedly ever more frequent and intense hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic activity, drought, flooding, and snowstorms.  (Never mind that twenty years ago, David Viner, a senior research scientist of the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, predicted that "children just aren't going to know what snow is.")  Tony Heller, a contributor to realclimatechange.com, made a video showing news clips of "extreme weather" from the 1930s, when carbon dioxide levels were low.  He narrated:  "It was by far the hottest decade on record in the United States.  The deadliest flooding in human history occurred in China in the 1930s[.] ... The worst droughts in U.S. history also occurred in the 1930s.  Eighty percent of the U.S. was in drought during July 85 years ago.

What damage?  Who's going to fix it?  Who gets the money?

US, EU 'owe half the cost' of repairing climate damage.  The United States and Europe bear more than half the cost of repairing the damage already wrought by climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said Monday [11/25/2019].  Based on their historic greenhouse gas emissions, the US and EU should be held jointly responsible for 54 percent of funding owed to developing nations already dealing with extreme flooding, droughts and megastorms rendered more frequent and intense by global warming, the groups said.

'Climate migrants,' the left's tool to pry borders wide.  "Climate migrants" are defined as those individuals in the world who've suffered some sort of weather-related disaster and are, therefore, in the eyes of the left, in the minds of radicals like Sen. Bernie Sanders, are worthy of automatic entry into the United States. [...] It's environmentalism at its most radical.  "As president, Bernie will ... create a new program to welcome migrants displaced by climate change, and set a floor of accepting at least 50,000 climate migrants in his first year in office," his plan states.  Forest fires in Indonesia?  Come to the United States.  Mudslides in Sierra Leone?  Come on in.  Droughts in Ethiopia?  Just look at the possibilities.  "Drought in Africa leaves 45 million in need across 14 countries," The New Humanitarian reported in June.

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What this "climate migration" idea omits is the simple observation that there are closer destinations than the U.S.  For example, if you have a problem with "mudslides in Sierra Leone," perhaps you could find a nicer place in Liberia.  Oh, but Liberia doesn't offer food stamps, Medicaid, school lunches, public housing, SNAP, TANF, SSI, AFDC, and WIC, in exchange for your lifetime of Socialist Democrat votes.  You'd be better off dealing with the mudslides than living in low-level slavery for the rest of your life.

AOC Links White Supremacy to Climate Change.  Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went off script this weekend claiming that white supremacy was inextricably linked to climate change.  It's good that we know the real culprit behind the "scourge" of climate change:  white supremacy.

Everything You Hear About Billion-Dollar Disasters Is Wrong.  The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) counts the number of disasters in the United States that result in losses of greater than $1 billion, starting in 1980.  Over the past three decades that count has shown a sharp increase, from five or less such disasters each year in the decade of the 1980s to ten or more in each of the past 4 years.  That increase must be due to climate change, right?  Actually, no.  The billion-dollar disaster tally is easy to understand, simple to communicate, but — regrettably — incredibly misleading and just plain bad economics.

Sen. Sanders Says U.S. Will Admit 'At Least 50,000 Climate Migrants in His 1st Year in Office'.  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he will create a new program that will admit "at least 50,000" people fleeing climate change in his first year in office, if he's elected president. [...] By 2050, "200 million people will be displaced by climate change," Sanders says, promising to welcome them into the U.S.

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This proves one (or both) of two things:  Either the U.S. has the best climate in the world, or climate change is just a pity party and an excuse to bring in more welfare-addicted freeloading Democrat voters.  Can you name one person who is "fleeing climate change" today?  Fleeing?  How much has the climate changed, so that these people find it necessary to flee?  And if the U.S. has such a huge "carbon footprint," as the alarmists claim, why would anyone want to come here and add to it?  This is all political flimflam!

Attenborough Tacitly Admits Netflix on 'Walrusgate' Tragedy Porn.  It was one of the most heart-rending animal tragedy episodes ever shown on TV:  hundreds of walruses shown plunging over a cliff to their deaths out of "desperation" caused by climate change.  Or so the story originally went when Sir David Attenborough first told it last year on his Netflix documentary Our Planet, causing much upset to impressionable viewers.

Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming.  A surge of oil production is coming, whether the world needs it or not.  The flood of crude will arrive even as concerns about climate change are growing and worldwide oil demand is slowing.  And it is not coming from the usual producers, but from Brazil, Canada, Norway and Guyana — countries that are either not known for oil or whose production has been lackluster in recent years.

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The article above, apparently from the New York Times and quoted by MSN, reeks with bias.  Oil is not produced and has never been produced "whether the world needs it or not."  Oil production is always a response to steady demand.  The combustion of hydrocarbons (resulting in carbon dioxide as a byproduct) does not cause climate change.  The climate is not changing.  Most of the global warming in the 20th century occurred before 1940, when internal combustion engines were still relatively rare.  An abundant supply of cheap oil is a good thing.  The writers at the New York Times apparently hate America, and can't stand to see capitalism succeed.

The 'Global Citizen' Fraud.  [T]he Global Citizen Festival was organized by a group called Global Citizen in partnership with firms such as Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, and Cisco Technologies. [...] Covering the festival live, MSNBC hosts kept insisting — between interviews with Democratic politicians and recitation of DNC talking points — that it was "not about politics."  Hurricane Sandy, Central American drought, and the fall of Venezuela, we were informed, were all caused by climate change.  A Mexican official announced her country's new "feminist foreign policy."  The head of some activist group took credit for the decline in U.S. poverty.

End of Discussion:  MSNBC Declares CA Wildfires Caused by Climate Change, Nothing Else.  As wildfires ravage California again, after last year's deadliest wildfire season on record, the media wants you to remember:  This is climate change's fault.  MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi explained this to his liberal audience on Tuesday's [10/29/2019] MSNBC Live With Velshi and Ruhle, by touting data from a climate alarmist organization, and not offering any other viewpoints into his explainer segment.  Co-host Stephanie Ruhle began by gushing over the sheer number of wildfires the state has been facing lately, plus the extended burning season.  With that prompt, Velshi responded, "It does make you wonder, right?" adding, "Why are these fires getting worse and worse every year?"  Of course, he had the reason ready:  climate change.

These State Birds May Be Forced Out of Their States as the World Warms.  Each state in America has an official state bird, usually an iconic species that helps define the landscape.  Minnesota chose the common loon, whose haunting wails echo across the state's northern lakes each summer.  Georgia picked the brown thrasher, a fiercely territorial bird with a repertoire of more than 1,000 song types.  But as the planet warms and birds across the country relocate to escape the heat, at least eight states could see their state birds largely or entirely disappear from within their borders during the summer, according to a new study.

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Oh, boy!  A new study!  Look, the average temperature is going up (or down!) at the rate of about one degree per century.  The birds don't care if it's 1/100 of a degree warmer this year than it was last year.  The temperature goes up and down 20 or 30 degrees every day, and we all just deal with it.

Will Haiti's Revolution Be the First Blamed on Climate Change?  The country of Haiti is convulsed by growing unrest, with thousands taking to the streets to demand the ouster of U.S.-backed President Jovenel Moise.  The issues are familiar to the impoverished nation:  food and fuel shortages, a mismanaged economy, and rampant corruption.  But also driving the protests has been the government's response to several severe storms and hurricanes that have ravaged the island nation.  Destroyed housing and businesses have not been rebuilt and the frustration of the people in their government's malfeasance and incompetence has boiled over.

AOC Warns of Prehistoric Diseases and Death from Climate Change.  AOC jumped on Instagram while making mac n cheese to share an epiphany about the consequences of not doing more to stop the abuse of 'climate change.' [...] The entire reason so many people roll their eyes at "climate change" is exactly this [stuff].  The claims get more and more outlandish every year.  Meanwhile in reality, for the last twenty years, no one has seen any difference.  I live in a generation where Democrats believe in Science but can not figure out what gender they are.

Florida farmers launch effort to survive climate change.  Florida farmers formed a coalition this summer to study and combat the impact of climate change on agriculture in the state.  The group also might seek new state subsidies to ensure the future of farming and open land in the nation's third-most populous state.

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The weather in Florida is not always ideal for farming, or anything else.  There is nothing new about this.  Nothing is changing.

Beto Says U.S. to Blame for Guatemala Drought, Not God or 'Mother Nature'.  Beto O'Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, Texas, knows for certain that Guatemala's drought is the result of carbon emissions more than one thousand miles away.  He knows for certain that neither God nor Mother Nature is responsible for the drought because ... science!  "And Guatemala suffering one of the greatest droughts in their recorded history, caused not by God nor by Mother Nature, but by you and me and all of us and our emissions and our excesses and our inaction in the face of the facts and the science and the truth," O'Rourke told the crowd at the College of Charleston in South Carolina Monday evening [8/26/2019].

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Carbon dioxide is not carbon.  There are no carbon emissions from factories or cars.  Coal mines emit carbon, perhaps, but not cars.

[One] Day After Stating [there is] No Link, [The] NY Times Blames Amazon Fires on Global Warming.  In Sunday's [8/25/2019] [New York] Times, Johannesburg bureau chief Norimitsu Onishi falsely conflated the Amazon rain forest fires in Brazil with global warming in "Europe Tries to Fill Void On Climate Left by U.S.," a two-for-one story that blamed both President Trump and Brazil's "far right" president Jair Bolsonaro for failing to act on "climate change."  A photo showing burning forest had a caption that underlined the purported connection:  "Europe 'has to be a green superpower,' a member of Parliament said, as the Amazon burned."  Onishi either fell victim to a lazy leftist assumption that the wildfires in the Amazonian rain forest were somehow connected to global warming, or else did his best to force the connection himself[.]

Democratic voters in New Hampshire blame climate change for economic woes.  The 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls flocking to the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire could encounter voters who say they are feeling the effects of climate change in their pocketbooks — as they seek to woo Democrats who count the environment as a top issue.  Tourism is the Granite State's second-largest industry and accounts for a large portion of the state's economy.  The ski industry alone contributes on average about half a billion dollars a year to the state, but it's been forced to make some changes over the years to combat a rise in winter temperatures — an average increase of nearly six degrees since 1970.

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World-wide average temperatures over the last 50 years have remained essentially unchanged.  It isn't difficult to find information from numerous sources to validate this claim.  If the state of New Hampshire has seen a temperature increase of six degrees in the last 50 years, it is the only place in the world with such a record.  In my opinion, their measurement techniques and record-keeping are highly suspect.  Rash assertions about extraordinary global warming should not be used as the basis for impetuous and costly political decisions.

From not having kids to battling anxiety:  Climate change is shaping life choices and affecting mental health.  Revelle Mast wanted to be an architect when she was a kid.  She changed course in high school, deciding to pursue chemical engineering to address the threat of climate change.  But, last year, she made another life decision:  to go into politics.  "I realized about a year ago that was not feasible on the time scale that climate change is happening," Mast said.  "Nine months ago, I quit my engineering job and went full time into political work."  As global warming — the gradual increase in temperature of the Earth's atmosphere — accelerates, people are grappling with the idea that disastrous conditions may appear as soon as 2040.  The reality of this potentially existential crisis greatly impacts the way some people, especially those who have dedicated their lives to stopping climate change, make life decisions — whether that's going vegan, living in a certain part of the country or deciding against having children.  It even impacts their mental health.

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There is no climate crisis.  Global warming is not accelerating;  In fact, global warming may have already stopped, all by itself.  Going into politics will not change the weather.  The weather outside does not depend on what you eat.  If the weather gets one degree warmer, and that is enough to affect your mental health or force you to move to another part of the country, you are hypersensitive, so please do not move to Texas.

People 'have to turn to vegetarian or vegan diets' to stop climate change, UN report warns.  People must switch from meat-heavy Western diets to vegetarian or vegan diets to avert climate change, a United Nations-backed report has warned.  By 2050, the world will need to produce 56% more food than in 2010, to feed a predicted 9.8 billion people.  If the level of meat and dairy consumption rises in line with current trends, 2.3 million square miles of forest will need to be converted for agriculture.

Couple decide not to have children because of climate change.  A newlywed couple are willing to give up their dream of starting a family in order to help save the planet.  Ella Starling, 27, and her husband Jackson, 29, are committed environmental activists and had always planned to have children together.  But the couple fear that the "planet is not right for a baby" and after extensively researching the risks that come hand-in-hand with climate change, have drawn to the conclusion that bringing a child into the world would be "unfeasible" right now.

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I would have said infeasible, but either way, I congratulate the socialist troublemakers for refusing to reproduce.  Apparently they had the decency to actually get married, which most kids forego these days.  At the same time, it sounds like they think it's not a good idea to have children right now, meaning that it might be okay later.  This is a departure from the usual global warming rhetoric, which usually includes a date (coming soon!) at which it will be too late to save the world.  What makes this young couple think the climate is so fragile that another few kids will wreck it?  What make them think the climate is going to stop changing someday?

Global Warming Propaganda, With Cartoon.  Liberals attach a mystical and often contradictory power to global warming.  Here in Minnesota, we are having a rainy Summer.  Climate change!  Somewhere else, they are experiencing a drought.  Climate change!  And "climate change" (regardless of whether the climate has actually changed in any relevant way) is commonly invoked to explain any negative phenomenon — but not, of course, anything good.

No Evidence That Climate Change Causes Weather Extremes, Part 1: Drought.  Weather extremes are a commonly cited line of evidence for human-caused climate change.  Despite the UN's IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) having found little to no evidence that global warming triggers extreme weather, the mainstream media and more than a few climate scientists don't hesitate to trumpet their beliefs to the contrary at every opportunity.  In this and subsequent blog posts, I'll show how the quasi-religious belief linking extreme weather events to climate change is badly mistaken and at odds with the actual scientific record.  We'll start with drought.

No Evidence That Climate Change Causes Weather Extremes, Part 2: Floods.  Widespread flooding and devastating tornadoes in the U.S. Midwest this May only served to amplify the strident voices of those who claim that climate change has intensified the occurrence of major floods, droughts, hurricanes, heat waves and wildfires.  Like-minded voices in other countries have also fallen into the same trap of linking weather extremes to global warming.  Apart from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)'s dismissal of such hysterical beliefs, an increasing number of research studies are helping to dispel the notion that a warmer world is necessarily accompanied by more severe weather.

Beto: Migrants Had 'No Choice' But to Come to U.S. Due to Climate Change.  2020 Democratic candidate and Congressman Beto O'Rourke told demonstrators outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children that the children from Central America "had no choice but to come here" because climate change had damaged their home countries.  He blamed rising temperatures for causing droughts, which made food supply scarce.  O'Rourke claimed these circumstance forced the people to come to the U.S. border and cross illegally.

Climate change is taking its toll on Greek monuments, say scientists.  limate change is threatening ancient Greek monuments, among them the Acropolis, one of the most-visited archaeological sites in the world, scientists said.  Air pollution and acid rain are eroding marbles, while extreme weather phenomena such as droughts or torrential rains have led ancient walls and temples to develop structural problems.  Even though the Acropolis hill, where the Parthenon stands, is probably Greece's best preserved archaeological site, there are signs that climate change has been increasingly affecting the monuments that stand on the hill.

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Local air pollution has nothing to do with global warming / global cooling / climate change / extreme weather.

Repeating the climate change hoax:  The force-feeding of myopia.  On May 11 the Seattle Times printed a story about how climate change was responsible for the death of a 72-year-old pine tree located at the University of Washington Arboretum. [...] Trees routinely last longer than 72 years but assigning the charge of tree murder to climate change is beyond incredulity.  Especially when we examine how much the climate has actually changed.  It's absurd to think that an increase of 0.6 to 1.4 degrees over the last century killed that tree — if that is, in fact, a legitimate figure.  It may not be, given how things are reported or ignored depending on agendas.

MLB Announcer Blames Rise in Home Runs on Global Warming.  There's certainly a change in hot air, but it's the hot air coming out of this guy's mouth.  F.P. Santangelo, an announcer for the Washington Nationals, bizarrely attributed a spike in home run totals this season to a variety of reasons, most notably global warming.  It's been fairly well-documented that launch angles, a rise in batters swinging for the fences and accepting the associated strikeouts that come with such actions, and a change in baseballs, have contributed to the astronomical numbers.

Joy Behar:  Global Warming Could Stop Biden from Curing Cancer.  Wednesday [6/12/2019] on ABC's "The View," co-host Joy Behar said it would be hard for 2020 presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden's initiative to find a cure for cancer because "a lot of cancer is environmentally caused."  Co-host Meghan McCain said, "Vice President Biden said he's going to promise to cure cancer if he's elected.  It's one of his big promises."

Great Lakes Reveal a Fatal Flaw in Climate Change 'Science'.  Lake Erie and Lake Superior — two of the five that make up the Great Lakes — broke records for water levels this May.  Lakes Michigan and Huron could follow suit.  Naturally, climate change is getting the blame.  "We are undoubtedly observing the effects of a warming climate in the Great Lakes," says Richard Rood, a University of Michigan climate scientist.  But just a few years ago, climate scientists were insisting that a warming climate would cause water levels to decline.

Climate Change, What Can't It Do?  Most of us, if our theory was so decisively refuted by nature, would preserve a discreet silence.  But global warming obsessives are undeterred.  Low water, high water, below average precipitation, above average precipitation — these seemingly disparate phenomena, which have existed forever and which most attribute to natural cycles, have a common cause:  climate change!

Texas struggles to keep pace as thirst for water intensifies.  As the planet warms and weather patterns turn more extreme, droughts — as well as floods — in the state generally have worsened.  Meanwhile, the state population is expected to double by 2050 to more than 50 million people.

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On the whole, Texas doesn't have a problem with water.  As of this writing, all the lakes in the eastern two-thirds of Texas are full.  El Paso has an overpopulation problem, caused by the Democratic Party; that is, the wide-open international border.  The planet is not warming and the weather patterns are not more extreme than in decades past.  When people complain about fake news, this is what they mean.

Young people blame climate change for their small 401(k) balances.  Lori Rodriguez, a 27-year-old communications professional in New York City, is not saving for retirement, and it isn't necessarily because she can't afford to — it's because she doesn't expect it to matter.  Like many people her age, Rodriguez believes climate change will have catastrophic effects on our planet.  Some 88% of millennials — a higher percentage than any other age group — accept that climate change is happening, and 69% say it will impact them in their lifetimes.  Engulfed in a constant barrage of depressing news stories, many young people are skeptical about saving for an uncertain future.

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Ms. Rodriguez may be a "communications professional," but in my opinion she has been poorly educated.  There is no need to go into pessimistic defeatism because of baseless projections of doom and gloom.  She accepts other people's assertions and worst-case forecasts as unassailable truth.  Step aside, snowflake, and please do not vote until you grow up.  After all, there's no point in voting if the world is facing certain doom.  Right?

Migration to the north: climate change puts plankton on the move.  Climate change that has warmed the world's oceans has prompted a "worrying" northward migration among some communities of the smallest organisms in the sea:  plankton.  That is the conclusion of new research published Thursday [5/23/2019] in the journal Nature examining the make-up of plankton communities across the northern hemisphere.  The unassuming creatures are sometimes referred to as the "building blocks" of the ocean because of their importance in the food chain, and their apparent migration is another indicator of the profound effect of climate change on the planet.

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Plankton migrate all the time, vertically.  If they migrate horizontally, it's probably due to ocean currents rather than warmer water, which they could avoid by staying in deeper water.  In any event, plankton don't have the decision-making ability to explore residential alternatives, or to form "communities."  Moreover, if plankton migrate, who really cares?

AOC says 'casual tornadoes' are a new threat to the country.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said tornadoes are the latest climate change threat after a tornado warning was issued for Washington, D.C. [...] After her brief video, Ocasio-Cortez discussed how tornadoes were part of the threat of climate change.  "The climate crisis is real y'all," she said.  "Guess we're at casual tornadoes in growing regions of the country?"

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Anyone who goes into a panic because of tornado watch or even a tornado warning is a snowflake.  When watches and warnings are issued, one should be aware of the neighborhood conditions, but fear is unnecessary.

Octopuses may go blind as climate change pulls oxygen from the ocean.  Turning light particles into visual information is hard work, and your body relies on oxygen to get the job done.  This is true whether you walk the land on two limbs or swim through the sea with eight.  In fact, according to a recent study in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the amount of oxygen available to marine invertebrates like squids, crabs and octopuses may be far more important to their vision than previously thought.

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If the temperature goes up one degree, how does that "pull" oxygen out of the ocean?  And why does it affect only the octopus?  And why is this being reported only in this one article?  The easiest explanation is because it isn't true.

Life if the Democrats take control.  The City of New York has decided to cut their offerings of meat by 50% in all schools and city sites that offer meals.  The reason- cutting meat usage will have a positive effect of climate change.  Is it possible the Mayor of NY believes less meat means less cows and therefore less cow flatulence?  It could also be argued if they doubled the meat portions, it would mean less cows as more would be sent to the slaughterhouse thus reducing cow flatulence.

Beto O'Rourke claims border crisis caused by climate change.  Former Texas congressman and 2020 Democratic primary candidate Robert "Beto" O'Rourke is in a tough spot.  There is no real, animating principle behind his White House bid — nothing deeper than "Hey, why not me?" — and the people who billed him last year as the latest, greatest, most exciting political prodigy since former President Barack Obama have taken notice.  Never mind that O'Rourke's vacuity was obvious when he ran against Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.  How major newsrooms managed to miss this even as they built up the Democratic candidate as God's gift to the electorate is anyone's guess.

Beto O'Rourke blames climate change for the crisis at the Mexican border.  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said climate change is a reason so many Central American migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.  "These storms, these floods, the historic wildfires that we saw in California, the droughts through which our farmers in Texas attempt to persist to grow the food and the fiber that feeds and clothes not just this country but the world, are going to be exponentially worse going forward," O'Rourke, a former Texas congressman who represented El Paso, said at a campaign stop Thursday [5/9/2019] in Salem, N.H.

Why This NY Times Maple Syrup Story Tastes Odd.  Climate change is at it again, ruining everything good.  This time around it's maple syrup that is at risk, according to the New York Times, which on Saturday had the alarming headline, "Warming Climate May Slow the Flow of Maple."  Or at least it would be alarming if it weren't for the tell-tale word "may."  If a warming climate were actually slowing the flow of the sap that makes for syrup, you can be sure the Times would declare it clearly.  To say it "may" slow the flow suggests that it isn't actually happening, at least not yet.

Another Warning Of 'Imminent' Climate Catastrophe.  Think of the headlines we've read through the years:  Why Global Warming Can Mean Harsher Winter Weather (2009), Extreme Events Increase With Global Warming (2011), Extreme Weather Expected To Worsen With Climate Change (2011), Extreme Weather Tied To Climate Change (2012), Hurricanes Likely To Get Stronger & More Frequent (2013), Cllmate Change To Spawn More Hurricanes (2013), and Climate Change Causing Extreme Weather (2015).  We've been hearing and reading these warnings for decades.  Yet our disasters are no more frequent nor more harsh than past weather calamities.

Stanford study explains how climate change widens gap between haves and have-nots.  Climate change is widening the world's gap between the haves and have-nots, worsening economic inequality between rich and poor countries, according to a new analysis by Stanford scientists.

Attenborough's climate facts fell off a cliff with the Walruses.  [Scroll down]  The facts turn out to be half-truths that fit the pattern of exploiting primal fears to create deep psychological spin.  He says "we don't know" but then shows the opposite — associating every kind of bad weather, fire, and storm with man-made emissions even though data shows that these were worse in the past or are caused by other factors.  In probably his lowest career point, rumours are spreading that not only did thriving polar bears cause the falling walrus episode rather than coal power stations, but his crew may have killed walruses unwittingly by being there.

Poorly-educated snowflakes worry themselves sick over the weather:
Young Minnesotans with 'climate grief' are feeling anxiety — and taking action.  In 2017, the American Psychological Association recognized the complex mental health burden in people who have experienced losses from natural disasters associated with climate change.  It also found evidence that the warming planet is churning up an emotional stew of anxiety, depression and pervasive dread.  Young people, in particular, seem susceptible to the psychological toll from the steady stream of bleak scientific studies and reports of melting glaciers, rising seas and extreme weather events.

Climate Change and the Ten Warning Signs for Cults.  [#9] The group/leader is always right.  When have the climate leaders been called wrong for their failed predictions?  Regardless of the weather, they are always intrinsically correct.  Flood?  Climate Change.  Drought?  Climate Change.  No Snow?  Climate Change.  Too much snow?  Climate Change.  Tornado?  Climate Change.  Hurricane?  Climate Change.  Lack of hurricanes?  Climate Change.  See how this works?  One of the best aspects of the movement is "weather is climate until it isn't".  The acolytes of Climate Change will point out the window in a heat wave and say, "See?  We're right!"  If a skeptic points out the window during a blizzard, the same acolytes will simply cry "Weather isn't climate!"  It's a game they can never lose, one in which they are never wrong and always right.

A Few Comments on AOC's Climate Blame Game.  There has been little change in temperatures over the last few decades in the areas from which migrant caravans are originating.  And only Costa Rica has been below average in terms of rain — hardly a cause for mass migrations due to climate change. [...] And if man-made climate change is driving this, it's not showing up in crop production, which in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras is improving!  There is more food being grown.

Ocasio-Cortez Says Climate Change Is 'Fueling' The Immigration Crisis.  Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said climate change was a "major factor" behind the wave of migrants making their way to the U.S. southern border.  "The far-right loves to drum up fear [and] resistance to immigrants," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday [4/9/2019].  "But have you ever noticed they never talk about what's causing people to flee their homes in the first place?"  "Perhaps that's [because] they'd be forced to confront 1 major factor fueling global migration:  Climate change," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

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The welfare state is what's causing foreigners to come to the U.S.  Why stay home and live in poverty in Central America if the Democrats will give you free stuff?

Get ready for it:  Newsom [is going] to blame illegal immigration on global warming.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom is going all in on opposing President Trump — and the majority of the American people — on the problem of illegal migration as the caravans from Central America fire up.  Now he's heading off to El Salvador to "examine the root causes of migration," as Big Daddy holding out the bag of goodies to would-be illegal immigrants in their home countries.  To him, they're his constituents.  So he's got to find some justification for this trip and you can bet he will.  My bet's on him using the trip as a soapbox to make claims about global warming causing it.

'Climate refugees' — Democrats' new tool to kill U.S. borders.  The left has a new tool to bring illegals to America — to wedge border doors a bit wider in defiance of law and order — and it goes like this:  climate change.  The weather.  The weather is making people flee their countries and come to America.  And as the left sees it, America has a duty — an obligation — to let these poor people in and take care of them.

Sen. Udall: 'We Now Have a New Kind of Refugee - Climate Refugees'.  Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) used his opening statement at an Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency's 2020 budget request to warn about the existence of "a new kind of refugee — climate refugees" — a byproduct of climate change.  "First and foremost, this administration has abandoned all efforts to fight climate change, and you've personally doubled down on that by denying climate change is even a major crisis.  Administrator Wheeler, climate change is a major and very real crisis," said Udall, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.

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The climate changes constantly.  It always has.  Neither short-term nor long-term changes in the weather are crises.  Moreover, there are no climate refugees.  Nobody is coming to this country because the climate in their former home country is insufferable.  Residents of the U.S. routinely move from one place to another, in some cases annually, because they like the weather somewhere else.  (For example, one might live in Houston in the winter and Kennebunkport in the summer.)  Such a person is not a climate refugee.

Sandy O's Credibility Problem.  To imagine that the problems of Flint and the South Bronx have even the slightest correlation to global warming requires a belief that global warming is extremely selective in deciding which locales to ravage.  And that's utterly ridiculous.  But like the Green New Deal, this isn't about climate change.  It's about the reshaping of our economy by granting the federal government the power to redistribute wealth from the Upper East Side to the South Bronx.

'Doomsday vault' endangered by rising temperatures.  The Norwegian town hosting the world's "doomsday vault," which was chosen for its consistently cool climate, is facing rising temperatures that could threaten the safety of the vault.  The city of Longyearbyen has experienced a temperature increase of 3.7 degrees Celsius over the last century, which is more than triple the global average of around 1 degree Celsius.  The vault stores nearly one million copies of the world's seed supply, with seeds from almost every country.

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This is an inversion of the Gore Effect:  The one place in the world they thought was safe from Global Warming turns out to be the worst place to put The Vault.

Retirees flee Florida as climate change threatens their financial future.  Florida, with its plentiful beaches, warm weather, and lack of a state income tax, is the most popular destination for older adults in the U.S. But some who have lived in the Sunshine State for years are moving in the opposite direction.  As damaging storms and other effects of climate change have hit Florida particularly hard in the past few years, some older adults living there have become concerned about their safety and their ability to enjoy retirement.  So they're fleeing this otherwise balmy state.  About 52,630 people ages 65 and over left Florida in 2017, versus 48,174 in 2016 and 43,356 in 2012, according to Jon Rork, professor of Economics at Reed College in Portland, Oregan, who studies retirement migration.  "Many of these people have left Florida for states like Georgia and North Carolina," Rork says.  "There's a hypothesis that those who have left Florida for Georgia and North Carolina have done so to avoid hurricanes and big insurance premium jumps."

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Even if some residents are leaving Florida because they don't like hurricanes, that doesn't prove that hurricanes are more frequent because of global warming.  Hurricanes have been hitting Florida for thousands of years, and they must have known this before they moved to Florida.  The migration might also be unrelated to the weather:  Residents might be leaving Florida because of crime, taxes, mosquitos, or any number of things.

Complete failure at Oroville Dam.  The $1.1 billion spent to repair Oroville Dam is failing as water is seeping through the rebuilt spillway threatens new mass evacuations over the risk of the dam collapsing.  According to national dam expert Scott Cahill of Watershed Services of Ohio, Oroville Dam is on the same failure track as in 2017, with visible water seepage trickling from the foot of the dam and dozens of points along the dam's principal spillway.  Cahill warns that warming temperatures magnified by precipitation is a growing threat to the dam.

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Is the dam really affected by warming temperatures?  How much warmer is the world today than when this dam was built?  (Hint: zero.)  Is there any concrete structure that is unable to withstand warm or cold outdoor temperatures?

Climate Change Is Real Because Moose Ticks, Obama Warns Canada.  President Obama has been in Calgary, Canada, warning his audience of the perils of man-made climate change.  Apparently, it is even affecting their national mammal.

Cold is not caused by global warming.  What do heat waves, floods, droughts, rising sea levels, forest fires, hurricanes, African wars, mass extinctions, disease outbreaks, and human and animal migrations from South America and the Middle East have in common?  According to climate activists, they are all caused by dangerous man-made global warming.  And this, in turn, is supposedly caused by rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels resulting from our use of fossil fuels.  They might as well add alien invasions to the list, because it is all nonsense.

Global Warming Doomsday Prophesy: 100 Million Climate Refugees by 2050.  David Wallace-Wells is taking his climate change fear mongering to a new level.  He has transformed his doomsday pieces featured in the past two years in New York magazine into a book, The Uninhabitable Earth:  Life After Warming, released today [2/20/2019].

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Has there been even one "climate refugee?"?  Name one person who has had to relocate because the climate changed so much that it rendered his or her residence uninhabitable.  And if that one person moved, but everybody else in the same country stayed in place, then it wasn't really uninhabitable, was it?  Please stop and think:  If global warming results in a world-wide average temperature change of one degree per century, how much will the average temperature change between now and 2050?  Will that difference be perceptible?  Probably not.  Then why would it turn 100 million people in to refugees?

Mass Immigration and Climate Change Doublethink.  Just for the sake of debate, let's agree (for now) with the warm-mongers that climate change, specifically, global warming, will wreak havoc on agriculture, lead to millions getting sick, have devastating impacts on the economy, cause tens of thousands of people to commit suicide and otherwise die if we don't act now.  That would be awful.  Only real monsters would want that!

Oceans will change color in less than 100 years, scientists warn.  Oceans will change color by the end of the century, as climate change significantly alters phytoplankton in the world's seas, according to a new study.  As ocean temperatures rise — perhaps as much as 4.8 degrees Fahrenheit in the aforementioned timeframe — the growth of the plankton will be heightened, making the blues and the greens of the ocean more vibrant, as sunlight interacts with water molecules and the blue part of the spectrum of sunlight hits it.  Fewer phytoplankton cause the water to look bluer, while more give it a greener hue.

Why Climate Change Isn't Science.  Global warming appealed to the press's appetite for calamity and became an instant hit.  The headlines wrote themselves:  The poles will melt!  The oceans will rise!  Lakes and rivers will dry up!  Farmlands will become deserts!  Millions will starve to death!  This was big.  Government would have to join the fight.  In the nineties, environmentalists switched their emphasis to "Climate Change" This was a marketing move.  Global warming could credibly be blamed for warming, but climate change could be blamed for anything.  If hurricanes increase one year, that's evidence of climate change.  If they decrease the next year, well, that's climate change too.  Droughts are caused by climate change, but so are exceptional rains.  Warmer winters prove climate change, but so do colder winters.  "Climate Change" was disaster gold.  It couldn't be disproved.  Which is exactly why it's not science.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews questions whether climate change leads to illegal immigration.  MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews brought on liberal TV scientist Bill Nye the Science Guy on Wednesday night [1/30/2019] to discuss climate change and its potential ties to illegal immigration.  With the polar vortex slamming the Midwest with historically low temperatures, many have pointed to climate change as the cause.  However, President Trump, a longtime skeptic of climate change, took to Twitter earlier this week begging for "global warming" to come back.

Climate change 'will increase the number of children born with potentially killer congenital heart defects'.  Global warming could mean more children are born with potentially deadly heart defects.  Being exposed to unusually high temperatures during pregnancy increases the chance of damage to the internal organs, scientists say.  Research predicts there could be 7,000 extra cases of heart defects between 2025 and 2035 in eight US states with a combined population of approximately 110 million people.  Scaled up to the global population, this suggests climate change could contribute to around 40,000 congenital heart defects per year.

Climate change will affect the ratio of male-to-female newborns, scientists say.  Global warming will have a variety of effects on our planet, yet it may also directly impact our human biology, research suggests.  Specifically, climate change could alter the proportion of male and female newborns, with more boys born in places where temperatures rise and fewer boys born in places with other environmental changes, such as drought or wildfire caused by global warming.  A recent study in Japan found a link between temperature fluctuations and a lower male-to-female sex ratio at birth, with conceptions of boys especially vulnerable to external stress factors, wrote Dr. Misao Fukuda, lead study author and founder of the M&K Health Institute in Hyogo.

Climate Researchers from Dartmouth Claim More Snow in Alaska Means Global Warming While Less Snow in New Hampshire Also Means Global Warming.  More often than not, it's not at all hard to stumble across research from any given institution, that is engineered to produce the desired global warming or climate change deduction, even when completely conflicting data produces opposite results which then somehow mean the same thing. [...] Case in point comes to us from two instances of research, from the same college, only a few months apart, that produces clearly opposite results that are then conflated to mean the very thing that they are seeking to prove, but on a leap of faith alone.

Is There Anything Environmentalists Won't Blame On Climate Change?  CNN this week published a huge story saying the source of the migrant caravan wasn't so much corrupt Central American governments, violence or lousy economic policies.  It was climate change.  This is just the latest attempt by environmentalists to blame any and all bad news — even acne and animal bites — on climate change.

Climate Change Blamed for Historic Low Water Levels in German Rivers.  Extreme weather events predicted by climate change sometimes mean more than just bad storms, sometimes they mean the exact opposite.  In Germany, a hot, dry summer has left water levels at near historic lows, and that problem is rippling across the entire economy.

Global Warming Propaganda in the Election Season.  Then there is the migrant caravan.  Is it just a spontaneous gathering of Central Americans, thousands of whom decided at the same time to take a 2000 mile walk to the US southern border?  Funded by Venezuela or George Soros, with the express purpose of meddling in the election by creating an October surprise, hoping to put President Trump in a box?  Nah.  The far left Guardian has the answer.  What else but climate change?

Global warming will ruin beer, scientists warn.  If millennials don't kill the beer industry, climate change just might.  A new study, published in Nature Plants, highlights that extreme weather conditions, such as droughts and heat waves, in conjunction with global warming, will cause "sharp declines" in barley crops, the primary component of beer.  "The world is facing many life-threatening impacts of climate change, so people having to spend a bit more to drink beer may seem trivial by comparison," said co-author Steven Davis, UCI associate professor of Earth system science, in a statement.  "But there is definitely a cross-cultural appeal to beer, and not having a cool pint at the end of an increasingly common hot day just adds insult to injury."

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An average temperature increase of one degree per century is not enough to cause the problems described in the article above.  (Or any problem at all.)  There is no crop growing in the world today that could not stand day-to-day temperatures one degree warmer than they are now.  This entire "study" appears to be an attempt to justify an increase in the price of beer, while raising an alarm amongst the poorly educated masses, in an effort to get politicians to "do something!"

Climate change [is] expected to double the cost of beer.  Add beer to chocolate, coffee and wine as some of life's little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and costlier, scientists say.  Increasing bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will hurt production of barley, a key beer ingredient, in the future.  Losses of barley yield can be as much as 17 percent, an international group of researchers estimated.  That means beer prices on average would double, even adjusting for inflation, according to the study in Monday's journal Nature Plants.  In countries like Ireland, where cost of a brew is already high, prices could triple.

Gore: Jet Stream 'Getting Loopier and Wavier,' So 'We Have a Global Emergency'.  Former Vice President Al Gore declared that scientists predicted hurricane "consequences" of climate change and warned "they're going to get a lot worse still until we stop using the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer."  Gore was reacting to this week's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in which 91 authors and editors from 40 countries concluded there's currently a 12-year window to make "far-reaching and unprecedented changes" to avert dramatic effects of global warming.  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report should be an "ear-splitting wake-up call to the world" as "it confirms that climate change is running faster than we are — and we are running out of time."

Schumer: 'If We Would Do More on Climate Change, We'd Have Fewer of These Hurricanes'.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) believes that human beings could reduce the frequency of hurricanes and severe storms if only they would do more to counter climate change. [...] Schumer pointed to a U.N. report released this week that says the world has just a little over a decade to "get a handle on carbon emissions."  According to that U.N. report, there is "alarming evidence" that humanity has reached "important tipping points, leading to irreversible changes in major ecosystems and the planetary climate system.  "Ecosystems as diverse as the Amazon rainforest and the Arctic tundra may be approaching thresholds of dramatic change through warming and drying.  Mountain glaciers are in alarming retreat and the downstream effects of reduced water supply in the driest months will have repercussions that transcend generations."  Schumer said the Trump administration has done nothing but "move the issue backward."

Sen. Bill Nelson Blames Hurricane Michael on Global Warming.  Sen. Bill Nelson said Thursday [10/11/2018] that man-made global warming is partially to blame for Hurricane Michael smashing into portions of the state's panhandle.  "The Gulf of Mexico was four degrees hotter than is usual ... Listen to the scientists ... and they'll tell you that the earth is heating up and the ferociousness of these storms is as a result, in part, of that heating up," Nelson, a Democrat, said on CNN.  Michael is the fourth most powerful hurricane to ever hit the U.S, according to wind speed measurements, and it is one of the strongest October storms to ever hit the country.

Don't buy the UN's bull — The US isn't killing planet Earth.  The United Nations and nearly 100 climate scientists from across the globe have issued their latest environmental primal scream.  Thanks to climate change, the planet is evidently on a path of "unprecedented environmental destruction" that will destroy life on earth as we know it.  Within a generation we'll be overwhelmed by catastrophic wildfires, rising sea levels, floods, hurricanes, disease, food shortages and a mass die-off of coral reefs."  There hasn't been this much doom and gloom packed in a government report since Jimmy Carter was in the White House and issued the "Global 2000 Report" which predicted a coming Malthusian scarcity.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says New York's population decline 'climate-based'.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo argued Tuesday that residents are leaving the state in search of warmer weather, not for better economic opportunities.  After giving a speech at the Business Council of New York State's annual conference at Lake George, the Democratic governor told reporters that the trend of New Yorkers moving south was "climate-based" or "based on personal reasons," not economic ones, The Associated Press reported.

Hurricane Florence — Another Thing Not Caused by Climate Change.  Hurricane Florence is gathering strength as it approaches the Carolinas but not everyone is praying that it dissipates.  For Al Gore, Alec Baldwin, Jane Goodall, Catherine McKenna, Dave Matthews, John Kerry, Tom Steyer and all the other celebrity alarmists attending the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco over the next couple of days, this hurricane is like manna from heaven:  the worse it gets, the better it is for their scaremongering cause.

Hurricane Florence is not climate change or global warming.  It's just the weather.  Even before Hurricane Florence made landfall somewhere near the border of North and South Carolina, predicted damage from potentially catastrophic flooding from the storm was already being blamed on global warming.  Writing for NBC News, Kristina Dahl contended, "With each new storm, we are forced to question whether this is our new, climate change-fueled reality, and to ask ourselves what we can do to minimize the toll from supercharged storms."  The theory is that tropical cyclones have slowed down in their speed by about 10 percent over the past 70 years due to a retreat of the jet stream farther north, depriving storms of steering currents and making them stall and keep raining in one location.  This is what happened with Hurricane Harvey in Houston last year.

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What is a "supercharged storm?"  Has Donald Trump sent someone out into the Atlantic to supercharge storms?  Or are the storms supercharged because I still drive a gas-engine Hyundai instead of a Prius?

No, Trump's Red State Base Is Not 'Suffering Most' from Climate Change.  A piece by the Daily Telegraph's U.S. correspondent David Millward is headlined: 'Donald Trump should take global warming more seriously — it's his voters in red states who suffer most'.  This clickbait drivel needs debunking and, as usual, Paul Homewood has done a fine job.

Ex-Starbucks exec Howard Schultz:  Climate change threatens coffee industry.  Retiring Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz said climate change poses a significant threat to coffee growers and the coffee industry in general.  In an interview with Time magazine in Costa Rica, Schultz, who formally stepped down from his post at Starbucks on Tuesday [6/26/2018], said rising temperatures and an increased prevalence of droughts have made coffee more expensive and difficult to grow.  To combat the threat, Starbucks, under Schultz's direction, conducts research as a facility in Costa Rica analyzing the impact of climate conditions and developing potential solutions.  "Make no mistake — climate change is going to play a bigger role in affecting the quality and integrity of coffee," Schultz told Time.

California burns:  The "new normal" thanks to Obama Era Environmental Regulations.  This past week, the New York Times reported on California's wildfires stating that "Since 2012, according to state emergency management officials, there has not been a month without a wildfire burning — a stark contrast to previous decades, when fire officials saw the fall and winter as a time to plan and regroup."  What's the significance of 2012?  It is interesting that the New York Times mentioned the 2012 date, but only attributed the wildfire increases to "the recent historic drought," and "rising temperatures," caused by climate change.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  As California burns, many Californians have been asking why the dramatic increase in wildfires in the last five years?  Except for Governor Jerry Brown.  Governor Brown claims that devastating fires are the "new normal."  Supporting Obama-era regulations have resulted in the new normal:  an endless and devastating fire season.

It's Not Climate Change that is Fueling Destructive Wildfires.  The environmental movement got all excited about preserving our forests and put enormous pressure on governmental agencies to stop cutting down trees, stop logging, and stop building logging roads into the beautiful forests.  Logging provided lumber for building homes, and the price of lumber went way up, so nobody is building "starter homes" anymore.  Ending logging meant that forests were not thinned as they were when logs were harvested, which means the trees are too close together, and there's more deadwood and brush, which means more fire danger.  There are always consequences for your actions.

Fire and fury:  How government failures make wildfires even worse.  While East Coasters are heading off for their August vacations, many families out West are worried that if they leave their home, it may not be standing when they return.  That's the reality when there have been 4,500 wildfires this year so far. [...] Everyone is quick to blame global warming for this and all other natural disasters.  But changes to local weather in this or that part of the country are by no means part of the same scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused in large part by human activity.  Western droughts and forest fires have been around a long time, and so has climate change, but the fires have gotten much worse very recently, and government mismanagement of forests is part of the reason.

Jerry Brown:  Fire-Fueling Heat Worst 'Since Civilization Emerged 10,000 Years Ago'.  With more than 20 active fires small and very large tearing across the state, California Gov. Jerry Brown warned today [8/1/2018] that "nature is powerful, and we're not on the side of nature," and that devastating blazes are "the new normal."

Mismanaged, overcrowded forests provide fuel to historic California wildfires, experts say.  Neglect and mismanagement have left western U.S. forests overcrowded, firefighting experts say, leaving them more susceptible to the kinds of major wildfires that are currently ravaging California.  California state and federal officials have responded to about 4,500 fires this year that have burned nearly 400,000 acres of land, easily outpacing last year's record burns.  Fires are bigger and lasting longer in part due to hotter and drier weather that most experts say is caused by climate change.  But overcrowding has also made the fires more intense:  The Department of Agriculture reported in December that about 27 million trees had died statewide on federal, state, and private lands since November 2016.

The latest global warming scare.  Too many "scientists" have too much grant money and too much computer time on their hands, thanks to the tens of billions of dollars in grant money ($32.5 billion from 1989 to 2015, according to the Science and Public Policy Institute) that the federal government has been dispensing for "climate change research."  Put together a proposal to find a new scary correlation, and odds are you'll be bringing in the federal cash, to the delight of your university (that gets to appropriate a third or so of the grant for "overhead").  That's why we have hundreds and hundreds of bad things that global warming (or climate change) supposedly will cause.

Rather than waiting for sunset, or taking a shower...
Global warming is making more people kill themselves: study.  Global warming is leading more people to commit suicide, a new study says.  Stanford University scientists say they have identified a connection between climate change and mental health, suggesting that abnormally hot temps prompt more suicides.

After 30 Years Of Data, Global Warming Alarmism Is Proven False.  I am old enough to remember the dire predictions of the late 1990s and early 2000s.  There were predictions of coastal cities being flooded and drastic temperature increases that would destroy crops and cause millions to become climate refugees.  Weather site Stormfax.com compiled a list of "Bad Things Attributed to Global Warming" that ranges from acne to zoonotic diseases."  A lot of severe problems were supposed to have happened by now.

CBC says global warming could "wake up" Canada's "volcanoes".  The CBC says that global warming could cause volcanoes to explode.  That's not even fake news.  It's fiction.  And it's embarrassing that anyone would publish that, but it's extra embarrassing, and troubling, that it would be said on the state broadcaster, to whom we pay $1.5 billion a year in taxpayer money, and who so clearly are in campaign mode for Justin Trudeau's carbon tax.

Remember when global warming was going to kill the U.S. Corn Belt?  Never mind.  Climate change and global warming put some forms of life at risk, but researchers found one instance that might not feel the heat — corn.  Contrary to previous analyses, research published by Michigan State University shows that projected changes in temperature and humidity will not lead to greater water use in corn.  This means that while changes in temperatures and humidity trend as they have in the past 50 years, crop yields can not only survive — but thrive.

CBS: Climate Change 'Making Allergy Season Worse'.  Global warming is fueling the growth of plants, which means that allergy sufferers can expect more pollen, and in turn more sneezing and red, itchy eyes, according to a new report by CBS News.  Warming global temperatures mean "another tough season for allergy sufferers," CBS warns, as "warm weather is arriving up to 20 days earlier this year in some places."  In recent years, "climate change" has been blamed for myriad ills, including everything from a slump in coffee production to devastating hurricanes to a drop in the population of Hawaiian monk seals to the decimation of migratory songbirds and even colder winters.

Study Makes Bizarre Claim That Global Warming Could Alter People's Personalities.  A new Columbia Business School study is out with the latest bizarre claim about man-made global warming — it could alter people's personalities.  "As climate change continues across the world, we may also observe concomitant changes in human personality," reads the study, published in the journal Nature on Tuesday [2/6/2018].  It's only the latest in a slew of studies on the potential psychological effects of future warming, and it's not even the most bizarre.  For example, recent studies have claimed worry about global warming is making people depressed.

Remember when global warming was going to increase Malaria?  Never mind.  In the visualisations below we provide estimates of the total number of deaths from the World Health Organization (WHO) from 2000 to 2015, and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), Global Burden of Disease (GBD) from 1990 to 2016.  These estimates are notably different across various countries which affects the total number of reported deaths.

Hillary Clinton Predicts Women Will 'Bear the Brunt' of 'Climate Change'.  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicted Monday during a human rights event at Georgetown University that climate change will force women to "bear the brunt of looking for the food, looking for the firewood, looking for the place to migrate to ..."  Such migration won't be led by men, she maintained, but rather by women "when all of the grass is finally gone as the desertification moves south and you have to keep moving your livestock or your crops are no longer growing."

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What amount of global warming or cooling would prevent crops from growing?  If such a change ever took place, would it be possible to move your livestock to a more favorable area?  As usual, those who spread climate doomsday predictions are hoping the general public won't think it through.

Supposedly Climate Change Is The Real Reason For Iran Protests.  Iranians are fighting for their freedom against a cash flush (thanks Obama!) terrorist regime.  More than 20 people, that we know of, have been killed.  But that didn't stop Scientific American from offering their opinion.  You see, they know the REAL reason the Iran Protests are taking place.  Climate Change.

Despite What You've Heard, Global Warming Isn't Making Weather More Extreme.  We keep reading about how the extreme weather of 2017 is the "new normal" thanks to global warming — even if the weather in question is frigid air.  But the data don't show any trend in extreme weather events in the U.S. for decades.  Science, anyone?  The latest to make this "new normal" claim is Munich RE, which issued its annual report on the damage costs from hurricanes, floods, wildfires and the like on Thursday [1/4/2018].  According to the report, insurers paid out a record $135 billion because of these disasters, and total losses amounted to $330 billion, the second worst since 2011.  It was also, the report says, the costliest hurricane season on record.  And if you look at the chart in the report, it does appear that the cost of natural disasters has been on the uptrend since 1980.  Naturally, climate change advocates point to this as further proof that the increase in CO2 levels is already causing calamities around the world.

The Frozen U.S. Is Paying a Terrible Price for Green Lies.  The North-Eastern U.S. is experiencing record-breaking cold.  Even the very sharks are dying as they swim.  Happily the New York Times is here to put it all in context.  It's all further evidence of global warming, of course!

Meteorologist blasts those linking brutal blizzard to climate change.  Meteorologist Joe Bastardi had a decidedly unscientific term for the effort to link Thursday's frigid winter storm to human-caused climate change: "witchcraft."  "This is flat out insanity and deception now," Mr. Bastardi said Thursday in a tweet.  "To tell the public that events that have occurred countless times before with no climate change attribution, is now just that, is not science, [it's] witchcraft."

Experts say chocolate could be impossible to produce by 2050.  How dark do you like your chocolate?  Probably not as dark as this news:  There might not be any left to eat in as soon as 2050.  A chocolate shortage is a looming reality, according to some experts.  Cocoa beans, the plant responsible for one of the world's favorite sweet treats, can grow only in mild, humid rainforest conditions.  Due to global warming, the climates of these cocoa-growing regions are expected to get hotter and drier over time, threatening the lives of the plants.

California governor blames devastating wildfires on climate change and says deadly winter infernos will be 'the new normal'.  Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday [12/9/2017] toured Ventura County neighborhoods ravaged by a weeklong wildfire that killed at least one person and destroyed hundreds of homes and other buildings.  At a news conference, the Democrat said drought and climate change mean California faces a 'new reality' where lives and property are continually threatened by fire, at a cost of billions of dollars.  He added that gusty winds and low humidity are continuing and warned that there's a good chance of seeing 'firefighting at Christmas'.  He said it will take 'heroic' efforts in the US and abroad to stem climate change and urged US lawmakers to pay more attention to dealing with natural disasters such as fires, floods and earthquakes.

Earthquake Hits Delaware:  You Know What This Means, Right?  It was originally reported as a 5.1, then seemed to be downgraded to 4.4, then the USGS makes it a 4.1.  Regardless doesn't matter, because it's your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle, using a hair dryer, and not growing your own food while giving up meat

Global Warming Will Crush Us With Giant Boulders.  [Scroll down]  Readers will recall James Hansen as the global warming hoax profiteer who has been denounced as a fraud by his former boss, who peddles phony data, who once pushed global cooling, who has called for communist China to lead a boycott to punish the USA, who wants to subject skeptics of the hoax to Stalinesque show trials, who has recruited children to sue to stop the burning of the fossil fuels upon which our economy depends, who raves like an inmate at a psychiatric institution that harmless CO2 emissions are "like setting off 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs each day, every day of the year," and who frankly jumped the shark long ago.

Get Ready for More Volcanic Eruptions as the Planet Warms.  Tens of thousands of people have evacuated their land in Bali as the nearby volcano Mount Agung angrily spits ash and its magma rises.  Many Balinese hold the mountain sacred and accept its occasional outbursts as moral admonishments whereas geologists consider this activity a routine part of Earth's behavior.  But scientists have found another force — climate change — affects the frequency of eruptions.  Now a new study shows even relatively minor climate variations may have such an influence.  If they are right, today's global warming could mean more and bigger volcanic eruptions in the future.

No, 'climate change' hasn't led to an increase in tropical diseases.  Climate-related diseases are relatively rare; and even malaria does not directly depend on the climate, but rather on the way we enable the parasite to reproduce and the mosquito to flourish in the place where we are located.  If you find yourself in a swampy area, the odds you will get malaria are high; if you have drained the system and you no longer have that wetland, the odds you will catch the disease are very low.  In the end, automatically blaming the resurgence of some disease on climate change comes down to removing the personal responsibility from the people involved: such as denying that their refusal of vaccinations, for instance, or their lack of hygiene, may be part of the problem.

California cities sue big oil firms over climate change.  California cities San Francisco and Oakland filed separate lawsuits against five oil companies on Wednesday [9/20/2017] seeking billions of dollars to protect against rising sea levels they blamed on climate change, according to public documents.

Bay Area cities sue major oil companies over climate change.  San Francisco and Oakland are suing to get five oil companies, including San Ramon-based Chevron, to pay for the cost of protecting the Bay Area from rising sea levels and other effects of global warming.  "These fossil fuel companies profited handsomely for decades while knowing they were putting the fate of our cities at risk," San Francisco City Atty.  Dennis Herrera said in a statement.

SF, Oakland sue top five oil and gas companies over climate change.  The cities of San Francisco and Oakland have filed separate lawsuits against five major oil and gas companies for allegedly contributing to the costs of climate change and sea level rise by producing massive amounts of fossil fuels, city leaders announced Wednesday [9/21/2017].  The lawsuits against Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell claim the companies have known for decades that global warming and sea level rise were accelerated by the investor-owned producers of fossil fuels, but the companies still continued to "aggressively produce, market and sell vast quantities of fossil fuels for a global market," according to a news release from the San Francisco City Attorney's Office.

Leftist Global Warming Mythology.  The left blames every natural disaster or significant change in weather on man-made global warming.  So if the weather is unseasonably hot, man-made global warming is the culprit, but if the weather is unseasonably cold, the man-made global warming is to blame as well.  The "science" of the left simply plugs in man-made global warming to every natural disaster or significant change in the weather.  This is anti-science in its purest form.

Climatologist, Former NASA Scientist: 'Houston Flood Not Sign of Climate Change'.  Houston is underwater after being slammed with rain brought to shore by Hurricane Harvey.  Officials say it could be weeks before the roads are traversable.  While the mainstream media and other alarmists are eagerly pegging human-caused global warming on the rising waters, others are saying, "Not so fast."  One of them is climatologist and former NASA scientist Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D.

Did Climate Change Cause Hurricane Irma To Fizzle?  When Irma shifted to the west as it approached, it was described as the "worst-case scenario" for the state.  However, when Irma made landfall in the U.S., it's strength quickly diminished and the actual damages to Florida in dollar terms will likely be 75% lower than predicted.  While those dire forecasts were being made, environmentalists and politicians were busy pinning the blame on global warming.  It was the same after Hurricane Harvey caused massive flooding in Houston.  It's the case whenever there is an adverse weather event.  If there's a drought, it's because of "climate change."  If there's flooding, climate change.  Wild fires, climate change.  Blizzards?  Climate change.  So will environmentalists credit climate change for Irma's unexpected turn for the better?

NY Times Knocks Down Hurricane Irma Is Climate Change Stories.  An early shot from the NY Times, which somehow made it through Climate Justice Warrior editorial review.  Of course, we'll be sure to see many stories from the NY Times in future days blaming 'climate change' for Irma, because that's what they do[.]

Global Warming and Hurricane Harvey.  Before the rains had ended, dozens of media outlets had published stories suggesting that global warming forced by humans (mainly by emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere) played a significant role in producing the heavy rainfall and resulting flooding associated with Hurricane Harvey.  Most of the stories were not based on data or any kind of quantitative analysis, but a hand-waving argument that a warming earth will put more water vapor into the atmosphere and thus precipitation will increase.  A few suggesting that a warming atmosphere will cause hurricanes to move more slowly.  This blog will provide a careful analysis of the possible impacts of global warming on Hurricane Harvey.  And the results are clear:  human-induced global warming played an inconsequential role in this disaster.

Why Houston Flooding Isn't a Sign of Climate Change.  In the context of climate change, is what we are seeing in Houston a new level of disaster which is becoming more common?  The flood disaster unfolding in Houston is certainly very unusual.  But so are other natural weather disasters, which have always occurred and always will occur. [...] Major floods are difficult to compare throughout history because the ways in which we alter the landscape.  For example, as cities like Houston expand over the years, soil is covered up by roads, parking lots, and buildings, with water rapidly draining off rather than soaking into the soil.  The population of Houston is now ten times what it was in the 1920s.  The Houston metroplex area has expanded greatly and the water drainage is basically in the direction of downtown Houston.  There have been many flood disasters in the Houston area, even dating to the mid-1800s when the population was very low.  In December of 1935 a massive flood occurred in the downtown area as the water level height measured at Buffalo Bayou in Houston topped out at 54.4 feet.

No, Michael Mann, Global Warming Didn't Cause Hurricane Harvey's Devastation.  When a controversial climatologist claims Hurricane Harvey's brutal downpour that devastated Houston is a result of global warming, it warrants examining the claim.  We have, and it appears baseless.  But that won't stop climate-change extremists from making that claim again in the future.

'Climate Scientist' Who Manipulated Data Blames Hurricane Harvey on 'Climate Change'.  If "climate change" is "settled science," why the need to fudge the data?

Al Gore says Brexit was caused by climate change.  There are plenty of theories about what led to the Brexit vote.  Now, Al Gore, has a new one to add to the pile.  The former vice president — who has been busy promoting his new film by labelling those who question him 'deniers' — says the EU referendum result was brought about because of... climate change.  Gore suggested that the war in Syria was caused by 'climate refugees' flooding into the cities.  This, in turn, by Gore's version of events at least, kickstarted the wider refugee crisis — eventually leading Brits to vote out last June.

Green Delusions and the Wind Bully.  An important green big lie is the claim that global warming is affecting the current climate and is responsible for extreme weather events.  According to the best measurements, global warming has been absent for 18 years.  The scientific link between global warming and extreme weather is not just weak, but negative.  Logically, one would expect global warming to make the weather less extreme, because global warming decreases the temperature difference between the poles and the equator that drives weather.

Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers linked to climate change, study claims.  Climate change may have contributed to the suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers and farm workers over the past three decades, according to new research that examines the toll rising temperatures are already taking on vulnerable societies.  Illustrating the extreme sensitivity of the Indian agricultural industry to spikes in temperature, the study from the University of California, Berkeley, found an increase of just 1C on an average day during the growing season was associated with 67 more suicides.

An irreproducible study proves nothing.
Global Warming Increases the Price of...Wine!.  Readers may want to know the details about this fatal connection between man-created global warming and the high price of wine.  Though — it must be said straight away — this can't always the case at present.  It must surely depend on which wines you like and where you buy your wine from. [...] Another study has admitted that this catastrophic effect on wine production hasn't been replicated elsewhere.

Worst media moments of the week:  NY Mag climate screed wins!  [Scroll down]  "There are now, trapped in Arctic ice, diseases that have not circulated in the air for millions of years," goes one of the milder passages.  It was so bad that climate alarmist and hockey stick creator Michael Mann teamed up with two others to write a response, arguing, "Doomsday scenarios are as harmful as climate change denial."  Mann and his compatriots criticized the New York Mag piece as painting, "an overly bleak picture, arguing that climate change could render the Earth uninhabitable by the end of this century."  They also called it out for errors.  Mann made an interesting comment that seems to go right over the head of eco-journalists, explaining, "fear does not motivate, and appealing to it is often counter-productive."  Yet fear is about 99.99 percent of all media climate catastrophe coverage.

Study: Aircraft Will Have More Difficulty Flying Because Climate.  A study published by Columbia University has suggested climate will disrupt future flight operations because it will be more difficult for aircraft to take off. [...] All this ignores likely advances in aircraft construction, the complete inability of climate models to forecast global temperatures, let alone regional temperatures, and the growing likelihood that climate models have grossly overestimated climate sensitivity to CO2 emissions.  But lets assume the authors of the study are right.  There is an obvious solution; if aircraft are likely to be adversely affected by midday heat, avoid scheduling takeoffs for midday.

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Here's a better idea:  don't over-book the midday flights.  Or just continue business as usual until a significant change in the atmosphere is observed.  Weather that is hot enough to affect aviation is nothing new in Arizona. [1] [2] [3]

Now Climate Catastrophists Forecast Two Billion Refugees!  But relax.  The "research" that set off these fake news alerts was not conducted by any climatologists.  In fact, it wasn't conducted or published by anyone connected with hard science of any kind.  Instead, these apocalyptic alarms were the result of the "research" of a sociology professor at Cornell University — with the help of very active public relations department feeding a media hungry for fear-mongering over "global warming" or "climate change" — take your pick depending on the temperature outside.  What's the dictionary definition of a "sociologist"?  Someone who studies society and social behavior by examining the groups, cultures, organizations, social institutions and processes that people develop.  Most of them work in colleges and universities — because it's the only work they can get.  Once you're through college, no need to listen to sociologists ever again.  Take my word for it.

Sorry, Global Warming Hasn't Caused a Health Crisis.  The statement of Mary Pittman, president and CEO of the Public Health Institute, reads like a script from a low-budget 1950s science fiction film:  "Climate change is perhaps the most important public health issue of our time.  Aggressive, unilateral and mutual action is urgently needed to protect our people and our planet."  Likewise, Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists and Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association stop just short of flapping their arms around and shouting "Danger, Will Robinson!"  In an effort to provide some "scientific" cover for these outraged experts, the author of the [Los Angeles] Times piece refers her readers to the climate and health assessment from the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).  Sadly, the scientific credibility of USGCRP is somewhat less than stellar.  It has, for example, consistently overstated the adverse health effects of extreme heat — a phenomenon that has itself been wildly exaggerated without ever being credibly connected to anthropomorphic climate change.

Paris Climate Agreement Goes Covfefe:  We Can All Breath [sic] Easier.  In the minds of the high priests of climate change, man's alleged ravaging of the earth causes everything from original sin to the common cold.  It was surprising that Hillary Clinton didn't list it as an excuse for her election lost right after computer nerds in Macedonia.  With President Trump pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate fraud agreement, the prophets of doom have returned in full voice.  Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate John Kerry, who once said climate change was as big a threat to human life as Islamic State terror, says President Trump just gave the kids of the world the gift of asthma.

Kerry: 'Kids Will Have Worse Asthma' Thanks to Trump Ditching Paris Climate Deal.  Former Secretary of State John Kerry ripped President Trump's decision to abandon the Paris climate deal yesterday, saying the lungs of American children will take the hit.  "He is not helping the forgotten American ... their kids will have worse asthma in the summer," Kerry said on MSNBC Thursday [6/1/2017].

Chelsea Clinton: 'Climate Change' Connects To 'Child Marriage'.  Climate change" and "child marriage" are "interconnected" issues, said Chelsea Clinton on Monday [5/22/2017].  Participating in a left-wing discussion panel framed as a meeting for "social justice," she was introduced as an "activist, thought leader, and change agent."  Using "climate change" as a euphemism for the narrative of anthropogenic global warming, Clinton framed the burning of fossil fuels as exacerbating other perceived social and political issues[.]

Climate change taking toll on clarity of Lake Tahoe water.  Climate change is causing Lake Tahoe to warm sooner in the spring than it has historically, disrupting the normal mixing of shallow and deep water and undercutting gains made in reversing the loss of clarity of the cobalt mountain lake, scientists say.

Chelsea Clinton's Most Asinine:  Child Marriage is a Result of Climate Change.  When Chelsea Clinton opens her mouth, it's usually been to pay homage to her parents and her savior, Barack Obama.  But this time, we get a little more evidence that she's gone off the deep end.  Chelsea Clinton said that "climate change" and "child marriage" are "interconnected" issues on Monday [5/22/2017].  Participating in a left-wing discussion panel framed as a meeting for "social justice," Chelsea was introduced as an "activist, thought leader, and change agent."  The event was hosted by CARE, a leftist 501(c)(3) public charity that demands international wealth redistribution under the guise of "foreign aid," "international development," and "humanitarianism."  Let's wait with bated breath for these holier-than-thou rich liberals to demand the Saudi billionaires "redistribute" their money.

Chelsea Clinton Wonders If Global Warming Is Connected To Diabetes.  I don't even know how to set this up, so I'm just going to say it.  Chelsea Clinton — the same Chelsea Clinton receiving an award from Variety for literally no reason — is attempting to link global warming to diabetes.

Climate change kills a champion at Washington Park Arboretum.  It saw the flight of Boeing's first jet; the World's Fair, the founding of Microsoft.  It survived the eruption of Mount St. Helens, witnessed the state's centennial, and the confession of the Green River Killer.  But after 72 years, Pinus rigida 212-45-C, the state's champion pitch pine, has died and will be cut down at the Washington Park Arboretum.  The cause of death was climate change:  steadily warming and drier summers, that stressed the tree in its position atop a droughty knoll.  Red turpentine beetles, catching the scent of stress chemicals emitted by the tree as it struggled, bored in.

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[#1] Trees don't see or witness anything, except metaphorically in the tiny world of tree-hugging hippies.  [#2] The "climate change" of "steadily warming and drier summers," if it happened at all, would have affected every tree in the area.  [#3] The beetles have to eat, don't they?  Who's watching out for them?  [#4] It's one tree.  Get over it.  That's the thing about trees:  They grow back.  Plant another tree just like this one, and it will probably live a long time, too, unless somebody makes a table out of it.

Gloria Steinem Backs Abortion Because:  "Forced Childbirth is the Single Biggest Cause of Global Warming".  According to radical feminist Gloria Steinem, women will never be "fully equal" to men unless they have abortion rights.  Oh, and the patriarchy's to blame for climate change too.  In an interview with Refinery29 writer Lindsey Stanberry, Steinem shared thoughts on feminism, and unsurprisingly, everything came back to female reproductive rights.  When the writer commented that some considered climate change to be a feminist issue, Steinem avidly agreed, opining that forced childbirth was the cause of many of the earth's problems.

Obama's Contradictory Climate Talk.  He blamed climate change for everything from weather conditions in America ("where states are seeing floods on sunny days, where wildfire seasons are longer and more dangerous") to the EU's influx of migrants, which he claimed was caused not only by the conflict in Syria, but also by "food shortages that will get far worse as climate change continues."  (He later said the strain that climate refugees have put on the EU's political system is "just the beginning.")  That wouldn't be the only humanitarian tragedy that Obama would attribute to man-made climate change during his appearance.  He also blamed the phenomenon for making food production more difficult.  "We've already seen shrinking yields and spiking food prices that in some cases are leading to political instability."  But for most of the world outside, say, Venezuela or North Korea, this is simply not the case.  Yields continue to rise in every major crop.  High food prices, scarcity, and hunger are almost always the result of failed government and economic systems, not the methane emissions of cows.  And yet Obama seemed unsure of his own message.  For at the same time, he added, producing food is also a major cause of climate change:  "Food production is the second-leading driver of GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions ... and if we don't change course, the World Bank predicts that by 2050, agriculture and land use change may account for as much as 70 percent of global GHG emissions."  In short, we aren't making enough food because of climate change ... but making all this food is causing climate change.

Climate Change Fan Fiction From LA Times:  Global Warming Caused The Exxon-Valdez Oil Spill.  Environmentalists have pinned every one of Earth's calamities on the presence of climate change, from terrorism to prostitution to drug addiction.  Running out of chilling subject matter, activists are now retroactively blaming famous disasters on global warming in a crusade to punish "dissenters."  A few years back, the Energy and Environment Reporting Project at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism wrote a series of pieces in the Los Angeles Times claiming that oil giant Exxon had engaged in a decades-long conspiracy to conceal the link between fossil fuels and climate change.  The entire series was thin gruel, but read it for yourself.  You may immediately recognize reporters who are working backwards from preconceived notions.

When climate change warriors can't keep their stories straight.  Human activity "may" cause this or "could" cause that.  Maybe.  Or maybe not.  It's irresponsible to imply one thing in the headline and within the article backtrack to the truth, that it's all speculation.  Perhaps these headlines are just click bait, unworthy of serious news sites.  Or it's CNN's way of promoting the left's climate change agenda via a flashy headline, walked backed within the actual article.  Going further, if we accept CNN's premise that the California drought was caused by "human-induced climate change", then how could the drought be "almost over" in less than two years?  What human activity ended the drought?  After all, if humans did something to cause it, then what did they stop doing to stop causing it?

So how did the California drought end?  We were told that the multi-year California drought was caused by humans, fossil fuels and CO2.  So how did it end? [...] What we have now is officials scrambling to repair the Oroville Dam, now bursting at the seams with water, in some very undrought-like conditions that nevertheless hasn't been trumpeted much as the end of the drought.

Climate change helped cause Brexit, says Al Gore.  Brexit was caused in part by climate change, former US Vice-President Al Gore has said, warning that extreme weather is creating political instability "the world will find extremely difficult to deal with".  Mr Gore, speaking at an event in which he previewed a sequel to his landmark 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, said the "principal" cause of the Syrian Civil War had been the worst drought in 900 years, which forced 1.5 million people to move from the countryside to the cities.  There they met a similar number of Iraqis who had fled the conflict in their homeland, creating powder keg conditions that Syrian government officials privately feared would explode.

More Lib Hysteria: 'Global Warming' Could Cause Diabetes.  The study being cited is from a Ph.D. thesis in the Netherlands.

Doctors join forces, warn climate change is harming our health.  "It's not only hurting polar bears, it's hurting us," said Dr. Mona Sarfaty, the director of the new consortium and a professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. [...] Carbon dioxide levels in the air are increasing and air and ocean temperatures are warming, contributing to more frequent and extreme droughts, wildfires, and flooding, Sarfaty explained.  In turn, she said doctors are seeing an uptick in heat-related illnesses; worsening chronic conditions such as asthma; injuries and deaths from extreme weather like floods; infectious diseases spread by increasing populations of mosquitoes and ticks (including those that spread Lyme disease); illnesses stemming from contaminated food and water; and mental health problems like aggression and anxiety.

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The article immediately above reeks with left-wing bias.  First of all, mosquitoes and ticks are thriving because the leftists got DDT banned decades ago.  Second, the rate of global warming is currently zero, and even if it resumes its earlier pace of about one degree per century, it's unlikely the numerous environmental problems listed above can be caused or prevented by temperature changes of one degree.  And in any event, mosquitoes and ticks are not bothered by one-degree differences in temperature, obviously, since the ambient temperature often changes 25 or 30 degrees from day to night.

The Lie Of Global Warming Gets More Convoluted All The Time.  California has a record-breaking drought, of course caused by global warming, and then suddenly the situation reverses and California is having record-setting rains and flooding, once again attributed to global warming.  Leftist Democrats want you to forget that California has always had severely alternating drought and rain, usually on a seasonal basis, with the most recent drought lasting much longer than its seasonally allotted duration.  But the interesting thing is that global warming was to blame for the drought, and now is blamed for the rain.

2016 State of the Climate Report.  [Scroll down to page 39 for these links:]
    Climate change causes more hurricanes
    Climate change causes less hurricanes
    Climate change causes more rain (but less water)
    Climate change causes less rain
    Climate change decreases the spread of malaria
    Climate change increases the spread of malaria
    Climate change makes San Francisco foggier
    Climate change makes San Francisco less foggy
    Climate change causes duller autumn leaves
    Climate change causes more colorful autumn leaves
    Climate change makes for less salty seas
    Climate change makes for saltier seas
    Climate change causes Antarctica to lose land ice
    Climate change causes Antarctica to gain land ice

Historic California Sequoia Collapses From Climate Change or a Rainstorm, But Mostly a Rainstorm.  The historic Pioneer Cabin Tree, a former "drive-through" giant sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Calaveras County, was felled in California's weekend storms. [...] So, of course, since all these storms are being blamed on 'climate change', we get this: [...]

DDT ban — not global warming — to blame for U.S. mosquito eruption:  Study.  The U.S. mosquito population is on the rise, but don't blame climate change.  Blame the ban on the insecticide DDT.  A study published this week in Nature Communications attributed the decay of DDT concentrations as well as urbanization to an increase in mosquitoes over the past 50 years.  "Mosquito populations have increased as much as tenfold, and mosquito communities have become two- to fourfold richer over the last five decades," the paper said.  "These increases are correlated with the decay in residual environmental DDT concentrations and growing human populations, but not with temperature."  The analysis, conducted by researchers from Rutgers, the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Santa Cruz, flies in the face of statements by environmental groups linking warmer temperatures to mosquito-borne ailments like the West Nile and Zika viruses.

Fake News: 'Climate Change' Could Maybe Possibly Spark Humanitarian Crisis.  The extreme enviroweenie/Warmist sects have been pushing doom from climate change for decades, particularly since the utterly non-scientific books The Population Bomb and Silent Spring.  They're still pimping this apocalyptic viewpoint, despite all their prognostications failing to come to fruition.

Bummer: 'Climate Change' To "Destroy Beautiful Sunsets.  From the press release about this taxpayer funded program[:] "Some students take photos of beautiful things such as sunsets or waterways and then write about how it could be lost or destroyed because of climate change."

No More Sunsets.  Adults aren't falling for climate change hysteria, so warmy alarmists are now appealing to their base: pre-teen children.

Climate change gloom lessons for kids.  Doomsday climate change lessons are being taught to children as young as eight who are concluding that human activity threatens to destroy beautiful sunsets and waterways.

Japan BOM: Global Warming will cause Heavier Snowfall.  The Japan Meteorological Agency thinks global warming will lead to heavier snowfall in Northern Japan. [...] All I can say is thank goodness we are not experiencing global cooling, otherwise we might have no snowfall at all.

As the storm moves out to sea, threatening no one...
Storm Hermine's damage fueled by global warming, scientists say.  Storm surges pushed by Hermine, the hurricane-turned tropical storm that on Sunday was moving up the US eastern seaboard, could be even more damaging than previous such surges because sea levels have risen by a foot due to global warming, climate scientists said.

Climate change is thawing deadly diseases.  arlier this month, an outbreak of anthrax in northern Russia caused the death of a 12-year-old boy and his grandmother and put 90 people in the hospital.  These deadly spores — which had not been seen in the Arctic since 1941 — also spread to 2,300 caribou.

The Facts Show Louisiana's Floods Not Caused by Man-Made Climate Change.  Is man-made global warming to blame for the heavy rainfall and flooding in Louisiana?  Former Vice President Al Gore sure thinks so.  And The New York Times ran a story with the title "Flooding in the South Looks a Lot Like Climate Change."  But the climate research suggests otherwise.  Speaking in Houston to train more grassroots activists on global warming, Gore said:  "These kinds of record downpours — that's one of the manifestations of the climate crisis."  The Times article led with:  "Climate change is never going to announce itself by name.  But this is what we should expect it to look like."

Disasters linked to climate can increase risk of armed conflict.  Climate-related disasters increase the risk of armed conflicts, according to research that shows a quarter of the violent struggles in ethnically divided countries were preceded by extreme weather. [...] Previous work has shown a correlation between climate disasters and fighting but the new analysis shows the disasters precede the conflict, suggesting a causal link.  Experts have warned that an increase in natural disasters due to global warming is a "threat multiplier" for armed violence.  The scientists behind the new research say it could be used to predict where future violence might flare, allowing preventative measures to be taken.

African Methodist Episcopal Church:  Global Warming Hurts Black People.  One of the nation's largest and oldest black churches, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is warning black people about the dangers of climate change.  The Guardian reported Sunday [7/24/2016] that the AME church "passed its first resolution in its 200-year history devoted to climate change, calling for a swift transition to renewable energy" at the church's general conference in Philadelphia.  "We can move away from the dirty fuels that make us sick and shift toward safe, clean energy like wind and solar that help make every breath our neighbors and families take a healthy one," the resolution stated according to the Guardian.

Photo Series Compares Modern-Day Flooding in Paris to Great Flood of 1910.  More than 100 years ago, the Seine River rose a record breaking 8.6 m above usual levels, causing the catastrophe known as the 1910 Great Flood of Paris.  Over the past week, as the picturesque streets of the French capital city began to submerge once again, artist Julien Knez was struck by the similar atmosphere of fear and awe brought on by water slowly creeping up over the river's embankments. [...] Last time the river flooded, it ended up costing the city nearly $1.5 billion dollars in damages, and parts of the city were submerged for nearly two months.

When it comes to blaming modern climate change for the recent flooding in Paris, this picture says a thousand words.  Recent over-the-top wailings from the usual suspects have been blaming current climate change for the flooding in Paris.  We already demonstrated how one statue and high watermarks tell the story, but this one from Kristine Mitchell and Julien Knez is even better.

This story is dubious at best.
Britain's Royal Navy warships are breaking down because sea is too hot.  Britain's £1bn ($1.4bn) warships are losing power in the Persian Gulf because they cannot cope with the warm waters, MPs have been told.  Six Type 45 destroyers have repeatedly experienced power outages because of the temperatures, leaving servicemen in complete darkness.  During the Defence Committee hearing on Tuesday, MPs questioned company executives about the warship failures.  "The equipment is having to operate in far more arduous conditions that were initially required," Rolls-Royce director Tomas Leahy said.

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I guess it's time for Argentina to invade the Falkland Islands again, since British ships can't go across the equator and risk getting into hot water.  Really, if this story is even halfway true, it's a massive design error rather than a global warming problem.  There isn't any ocean water that's so hot a ship can't go through it.  No other navy in the world has ever had this problem.

Target CEO Claims Bathroom Policy Not Hurting Sales.  It's the perfect liberal cop-out.  Blame it on climate change.  Then if anyone questions your reasons, you can call them uneducated since the science is settled.

US General's Senate Testimony:  Climate Change and War.  The Administration's passion to connect climate change to war is an example of faulty theories that rely for relevance on politically correct imaginings rather than established historical precedent or a learned understanding of war.  The theories linking climate change to war come from a larger body of political thought that ascribes human conflict to "Global Trends".  Advocates of the Global Trends theory argue that environmental scourges such as diminishing water supplies, urbanization and the AIDS/HIV epidemic shape the course of human conflict.  Lately, thanks to legitimacy provided by the Obama Administration, climate change has become the most prominent of all the global trends that seek to link global misfortunes to war.

Documentary "Climate Hustle" Exposes Global-warming Con Job.  [Marc] Morano allows alarmists to speak for themselves throughout the documentary.  Climate Hustle is packed with clips and interviews of alarmist politicians, "experts," celebrities, and scientists bloviating about alleged man-made global cooling, warming, the supposed urgency of doing something about it, and more.  Hilariously, some of the supposed effects of alleged man-made global warming — everything from weather events and increased prostitution to rape, car theft, airplane turbulence, barroom brawls, and even the extinction of coffee — are highlighted, too.  The humor throughout the film is absolutely fantastic, making it perfect to watch with others of all political persuasions.  Morano also catches some climate alarmists involved in blatant, demonstrable deception.

Tale of Two Tribes: 'Climate Refugees' vs.  EPA Victims.  The New York Times splashed a viral story on its pages this week spotlighting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's $48 million grant to Native-Americans who live in the flood-ravaged coastal community of Isle de Jean Charles.  About 60 residents, the majority of whom belong to the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, will be resettled to drier land.  That's a whopping $800,000 per "climate refugee!"  Never mind that the Times' propagandists themselves admit that erosion on the island began in 1955 as a result of land-use and land-management factors that had nothing to do with climate change. [...] Never mind that enviro-alarmists have conveniently changed their tune from blaming global warming for causing sea level rises to blaming global warming for causing sea level drops.

Barack Obama is really good at solving problems that don't exist, by spending other people's money.
Obama administration warns of 'climate refugees' due to rapid Arctic warming.  The Obama administration has warned the US will need to deal with a wave of "climate refugees" as the Arctic continues to warm, joining with the Canadian government to express alarm over how climate change is affecting indigenous communities.  Sally Jewell, US secretary of the interior, painted a stark picture of communities relocating and lives disrupted in her first official visit to Canada. [...] "We will have climate refugees," Jewell said.  "We have to figure out how to deal with potentially relocating villages.  There's real tangible support we need to do from a government basis, working alongside indigenous communities as they make very difficult choices about what is right for them.  "We can't turn this around.  We can stem the increase in temperature, we can stem some of the effect, perhaps, if we act on climate.  But the changes are under way and they are very rapid."

Climate Change Is Making The Weather More Pleasant.  A research letter published in the journal Nature finds that climate change has made the weather in the United States far more enjoyable over the past four decades.  The researchers looked at seasonal temperature changes since 1974, rather than annual averages, and found that "80% of Americans live in counties that are experiencing more pleasant weather than they did four decades ago," the authors concluded.  The reason, they say, is that since the 1970s the winters have been getting warmer, but not the summers.

Earth Is Tipping Because of Climate Change.  The north pole is on the run.  Although it can drift as much as 10 meters across a century, sometimes returning to near its origin, it has recently taken a sharp turn to the east.  Climate change is the likely culprit, yet scientists are debating how much melting ice or changing rain patterns affect the pole's wanderlust.  The geographical poles — the north and south tips of the axis that the Earth spins around — wobble over time due to small variations in the sun's and moon's pulls, and potentially to motion in Earth's core and mantle.  But changes on the planet's surface can alter the poles, too.  They wobble with every season as the distribution of snow and rain change, and over long stretches as well.

The Editor says...
If you look into this subject more closely, I think you'll find that variations in the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon are the main causes of the movements of the poles. Melting ice and "changing rain patterns" are not likely culprits because [#1] melting ice would require drastically higher worldwide temperatures (which aren't happening) and [#2] "rainfall patterns" are immaterial because the mass of the atmosphere — which contains the water vapor for tomorrow's rainfall — is only one millionth of the mass of the earth.  As you explore this topic, I think you'll find that every large earthquake has a substantial influence on the rotation of the earth.  Furthermore, if the earth wobbles on its axis, so little that only astronomers notice, then who really cares?

Nasa study says melting ice sheets are changing Earth's weight distribution.  Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis, a new Nasa study has concluded.  Melting ice sheets — especially in Greenland — are changing the distribution of weight on Earth.  That has caused both the North Pole and the wobble, which is called polar motion, to change course, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances.

The Editor says...
Really?  "Melting ice" produces water, and water seeks its own level, which means melting ice cannot throw the earth out of balance.  If you dump an acre-foot of water into the ocean, or a million acre-feet, what difference does it make if you do so in Greenland or somewhere else?  The water spreads out, theoretically across the entire ocean, thanks to gravity.

Venezuelan Leader Blames El Niño And Global Warming For Nation's Energy Crisis.  The fierce El Niño event under way in the Pacific Ocean and warming global temperatures have helped create the brutal drought now racking Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro said Wednesday night [4/6/2016].  The Venezuelan leader blamed the climatological phenomena as he presented a 60-day plan to conserve energy in the blackout-prone nation.  Maduro declared all Fridays during the next two months will be holidays in a highly criticized bid to cut electricity use.

The Editor says...
I suppose President Maduro thinks global warming is the reason there's no toilet paper anywhere in his country.  Except at his house, of course.

Obama Claims Global Warming Will Literally Drive People Crazy.  The Obama administration released a new report claiming global warming will make mental health issues worse — the report notes even "perceived" threats from global warming will harm the mentally ill.  "Many people will experience adverse mental health outcomes and social impacts from the threat of climate change, the perceived direct experience of climate change, and changes to one's local environment," reads a new report released by the administration.  "Media and popular culture representations of climate change influence stress responses and mental health and well-being," the report continues.

Judge: Climate Change Imperils Wolverines and Feds Must Act.  Wolverines need deep mountain snows to den, and scientists warn that such habitat will shrink as Earth heats up.

The Editor says...
Den is not a verb, even if the Associated Press uses it as such.

WH Science Advisor: Farmers, Construction Workers Will Die From Climate Change.  White House Science Advisor John Holdren says because of the impacts of climate change, agricultural and construction workers "will basically be unable to control their body temperature and will die."  "In some parts of the world, when you look more broadly at this question, you see the likelihood that in the hottest times of the year it will be simply physiologically impossible to work outdoors," Holdren said at a White House event on climate change Monday [4/4/2016].  "That means agriculture, that means construction, people who try to work outdoors will basically be unable to control their body temperature and will die.  This is a really, really big deal.  And it's going to be a big deal in the hottest parts of the United States as well as the Middle East, in South Asia and other places."

Alarmism Cranked Up to Absurd Level.  The Reuters article Record surge in 2016 temperatures adds urgency to climate deal, say scientists features some notable quotes and a photo of a dead cow in South Africa — yes, a dead cow, a solitary dead cow, without explanation — as if to say, Oh look, a dead cow.  It must be due to global warming.  Also, I believe on-the-dole activists in the title and text would be more appropriate than scientists.

The Future of Global Warming Is Unknown.  The global warming hypothesis is worthy of scientific investigation, but it seems to have metastasized into an ideology whose followers tolerate no alternatives.  The primary hypothesis — human produced CO2 will produce catastrophic global warming — now so dominates discourse that to question it sounds like heresy.  This sad state of affairs results in a Repetition Crisis in publishing, in which the only explanations for serious phenomena that researchers are allowed to offer is the same old same old:  climate change caused by global warming.  Whether breeding habits of squirrels, increasing or decreasing snowfall, even reduced business at Bulgarian brothels:  global warming caused it.  The problem is that the primary hypothesis is falsified by the data.

Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science.  [Scroll down]  The position of the policy world is clear.  Here is President Obama's constant refrain:  "Climate change is contributing to extreme weather, wildfires, and drought, and that rising temperatures can lead to more smog and more allergens in the air we breathe, meaning more kids are exposed to the triggers that can cause asthma attacks."  Pope Francis, President Hollande, and virtually all state leaders have chimed in with similar proclamations.  And yet, the whole proposition is largely without basis and highly implausible.  The association with asthma that is regularly made by both Obama and Hillary Clinton is a good example of nonsense driven by focus groups who find this to be an effective scare theme.  The other claims are no better.

Apocalyptic weather to trigger epidemics and starvation.  The apocalyptic forecasts threatens to throw the world into a violent chaos.  NASA recently warned that the impact of this year's so-called "Godzilla El Niño", a warming of sea temperatures in the Pacific, could be the worst in history.  Catastrophic weather this year has already seen dozens of countries around the world declare emergencies while the UN warned at least a million children face agonising starvation.  The World Health Organization (WHO) said the "unprecedented situation" could devastate the world with severe drought, flooding, heavy rains and scorching temperatures.  The killer record-breaking phenomenon has already unleashed devastating storms in the United States, mudslides in South America and raging wildfires in Australia.

Turns out scientists really aren't sure if global warming causes droughts.  Climate alarmists claim that among global warming's parade of horrors are increased droughts of worsening severity, particularly in the U.S. — except now scientists aren't so sure.  New research suggests that global warming may not be as big of a factor as previously thought and that scientists don't really understand as much about the climate as they thought they did.

"Greens" vs. Transparency.  Some background:  To the "green" Left, cost-benefit analysis is a problem.  Even some environmentalists admit that many supposed anti-Warming measures would do real harm to the economy, especially to poor and working-class people — greater harm than the Warming itself.  To get around that problem, activists have worked to build up the current and future threat of Warming.  It's been blamed for everything from the spread of AIDS to the future extinction of coffee beans and red-headed humans, from bumpy plane rides to the loss of people's sex drives to a rise in the pitch of the croak of the coqui frog of Puerto Rico.  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a recent Democratic presidential debate that "In fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism."

Shut up, she explained: My request for climate evidence.  Intellectual atrophy is the inexorable result of living in an echo chamber, an effect that can be avoided through a disciplined approach to serious work and a consistent effort to confront opposing arguments. [...] If one believes, as I do, that government bureaus, decisionmakers, and scientists are not merely disinterested truth seekers devoid of any agendas of their own, but instead are an interest group, we should ask how scientific analysis conducted or funded by an agency headed by political appointees buffeted by political pressures can be viewed ex ante as any more authoritative than that originating from, say, the petroleum industry.

Save the Environment — from Deadly Lettuce.  ISIS will not be amused.  First, President Barack Obama and Pope Francis have given the inherent danger of their terrorism the heave-ho by declaring that global warming/climate change is a bigger threat to 21st century humanity — and now global warming doctrine dares to suggest that bacon is better for the environment than run-of-the-mill lettuce.

Are vegetarians to blame for climate change?  Sticking to a vegetarian diet may not be as beneficial to the environment as you think — in fact, it might be helping to destroy it.  A study from Carnegie Mellon University has found that many common vegetables require more resources per calorie, and produce higher greenhouse gas emissions than some types of meat.  While lowering the weight of the general population has been shown to positively affect the environment, the researchers found that healthy eating leads to a higher environmental impact.

Lettuce 'three times worse' for environment than bacon, new study says.  According to a new study from Carnegie Mellon, a vegetarian diet could be worse for the environment than a carnivorous one.  Only pork chops can save the ozone now!  Fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood have a more negative impact on the climate than meat, claims the study.  The meat-less diet increases energy use by 38 percent, water use by 10 percent and greenhouse gas emissions by six percent.

Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble.  As pollution from burning fossil fuels continues to heat the atmosphere, the world's glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate.  Scientists widely agree that this meltwater has been a major factor in raising global sea levels about seven inches over the 20th century.  The movement of all that water is affecting the Earth's rotation, according to a study published Friday [12/11/2015] in the journal Science.  "If you are melting glaciers from high latitudes — in Alaska, Greenland, or Iceland — you move mass away from the pole, toward the equator, which slows the Earth down," said Jerry Mitrovica, the study's lead author and a Harvard geophysicist who specializes in studying sea level change.  "The change in the distribution of the mass from the poles to lower latitudes also causes the rotation to wobble slightly, because it's being redistributed unequally."  That change in rotation added a microsecond to the course of a day over the 20th century.

The Editor says...
When scientists say the Earth is wobbling, it's technically true, but what that means is that the axis on which the Earth rotates (which of course is the line between the north and south poles) tends to drift.  As I understand it, the north pole drifts around (very slowly) in an area of a few hundred square feet.  There is an organization called the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS.org) which publishes day-to-day estimates of the coordinates of the pole, which appear to change by some few millionths of a second (of latitude and longitude), or perhaps an inch or two every day.  Things like this are usually important (or known!) only to astronomers.  When a "news" writer comes up with a headline like, "Climate Change Is Making the Earth Wobble," it is global warming alarmism, which they spread in an effort to sell newspapers.  The earth isn't wobbling any more than it has for thousands of years.

Reality versus Obama's climate of fear.  When President Obama blames climate change for stoking terrorism, he's trying to play us all for saps.  He's doing what Hollywood exploitation movies have done since the 1920s — latching on to a widespread fear, mixing in lurid content and hoping to turn it to his profit.  Quick and dirty movie-making was low and clever.  But Obama's exploitation is only disreputable, not smart.  It makes him an even more distant and discredited leader, hopelessly out of touch with the legitimate fears of the public whose mind he wants to change.

The (Lack of) Intelligence of Pseudo-Intellectuals.  When I first heard the purported link between terrorism and climate change, I assumed it was a joke.  But now I see it is being treated as social-scientific fact.  How did people, many of them regarded as leaders and intellectuals become so stupid? [...] This assertion that climate change is the cause of terrorism is truly a case in point in revealing how intellectually untenable and morally bankrupt the West's so called progressive and self appointed intelligentsia have become.

Obama: Climate change could lead to rise in extremism.  President Obama on Friday [12/4/2015] defended his view that climate change could lead to a rise in violent extremism around the world.  In an interview with CBS This Morning, Obama said that as global warming kicks in and leads to severe flooding or other "major shifts in weather patterns," people in vulnerable parts of the world could begin growing desperate and turn to "dangerous" ideologies.

Obama Wants to Organize the World Around Climate Change.  President Barack Obama has expressed an apocalyptic vision he suggests other reasonable people must embrace.  On Monday [11/30/2015], in Paris, he said he foresees:  "Submerged countries.  Abandoned cities.  Fields that no longer grow."  And also:  "Political disruptions that trigger new conflict, and even more floods of desperate peoples seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own."  Climate change, he argues, threatens to cause these problems.

Doomsday revisited: will warming deprive us of oxygen?  Global warming has triggered an array of apocalyptic scenarios for future generations, from worsening drought, storms and floods to melted icesheets and rising seas.  Now a new study, published Tuesday [12/1/2015] and coinciding with the UN climate talks in Paris, adds to the grim tableau:  the risk that warming at the far end of the scale could rob our planet of oxygen.

The Editor says...
If you believe there is the slightest chance that the Earth is going to warm up that much, you must have been a public school student.

Obama frets over global warming while adding to it.  Besides themselves contributing to global warming, Obama's 1,750 words in Paris were largely pep-rally remarks, portraying the roughly five-billion-year-old planet as basically doomed until this magical meeting in France, "a turning point, that is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet."  He described for attendees the devastated Alaska he visited last summer, beset by seas "already swallowing villages," erosion, glaciers that melt in the summer, burning forests and tundra.  That's merely a preview of the future, Obama said, "a glimpse of our children's fate if the climate keeps changing faster than our efforts to address it.  Submerged countries.  Abandoned cities.  Fields that no longer grow.  Political disruptions that trigger new conflict, and even more floods of desperate peoples seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own."

The Usual Suspect.  Just as nuclear power and radiation explained everything in the 1950s, in 2015 the usual suspect in all modern mysteries is Global Warming.  "In Britain last week, Sky News aired an interview with Prince Charles in which he declared that a clear link existed between climate change and the emergence of Islamic State."  It was therefore understandable that Global Warming is the presumed cause for the phytoplankton boom just as it was the culprit in its former assumed decline.  The way the narrative works is the Usual Suspect is guilty in every case.  Things are simpler that way.

Prince Charles: Climate change failure is a factor behind Syrian crisis.  Prince Charles has suggested the cause of conflict in Syria is climate change, in a wide-ranging interview.  Drought and competition for increasingly scarce resources caused by manmade activities also played a role in the refugee crisis which has seen thousands of people leave the Middle East and cross Europe in recent months, the Prince of Wales said.

Sharks hunting ability 'destroyed' due to higher CO2.  From the 'Carbon Dioxide, is there anything it can't destroy?' department and the University of Adelaide's department of science fiction, comes this laughable press release. [...] Studies in captivity are NOT the same as the ocean.  Just ask any salt water aquarium owner how difficult it is to keep specimens healthy under even the best aquarium management practice.  Even worse, they only studied one kind of shark, yet extrapolate that to all sharks in the headline of the press release.  In my opinion, this study would get laughed out of any grade school science fair, but somehow it gets a pass in peer review.

Terrorism, not Climate Change, Kills People.  [Scroll down]  Mrs. Clinton is not alone, however.  All of the Democrats running for president, plus former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, want to treat changes in the weather as something to be addressed through new treaties, international agreements and global tax schemes.  This campaign has taken precedence over defeating international terrorism.  At the Democratic Party debate this past weekend, Sanders claimed that "Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism and if we do not get our act together and listen to what the scientists say, you're going to see countries all over the world — this is what the CIA says — they're going to be struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops and you're going to see all kinds of international conflict"

CIA Director Cites 'Impact of Climate Change' as Deeper Cause of Global Instability.  Speaking today [11/16/2015] at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said that CIA analysts see "climate change" as a "deeper cause" of the instability seen in places like Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Yemen and Libya.  "Mankind's relationship with the natural world is aggravating these problems and is a potential source of crisis itself," Brennan said at one point in his speech.  "Last year was the warmest on record, and this year is on track to be even warmer."

'Life on our planet at stake': Warnings over climate change catastrophe.  If global warming continues on its present trajectory of 4 degrees Celsius, rising sea levels will claim land inhabited by more than 600 million people, according to a survey by Climate Central, a US-based research group.

World Bank: Climate Change Could Add 100 Million Poor by 2030.  The World Bank is warning that global warming will push 100 million more people into poverty across the globe in the next 15 years, in the absence of further action by developed nations to curb rising temperatures.  In a report released Sunday [11/8/2015], the bank called for "rapid, inclusive and climate smart development, together with emission reductions" aimed at protecting the world's most vulnerable inhabitants.

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If the global average temperature goes up in the next 15 years at the same rate we've seen in the past 15 years, there is absolutely no basis for alarm.

Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty within 15 years, warns World Bank.  Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report.  Released just weeks ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris, the report highlighted how the impact of global warming is borne unevenly, with the world's poor woefully unprepared to deal with climate shocks such as rising seas or severe droughts.

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Really?  How much is the mean sea level going to increase in the next 15 years? A fraction of an inch, at most?  Is that enough to affect 100 million people?

You Can't Make Love When It's Warm Out.  Climate alarmists are constantly trying to hector the rest of us into... something.  Agreeing to be poor, I guess, just so they will leave us alone.  Now the National Bureau of Economic Research has come up with the ultimate threat:  global warming will cause a disastrous population decline in the developed world, because people don't make love when it's too warm.

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The global warming alarmists are the same people who worry about overpopulation, and same people who are opposed to air conditioning.  This research (if it has any basis in reality, which it clearly does not) should be good news!

Sounds terribly sexist to me.
Climate change: Women more vulnerable to dangers of global warming than men, say leading academics.  A new obstacle has emerged in the battle for female equality — in the form of climate change.  Global warming will inflict far more suffering on women than men because they are more vulnerable to the floods, droughts and diseases that are expected to increase as the climate changes, leading academics have warned.  Climate change's gender discrimination will be far more pronounced in those swathes of the poorer, developing world where sexual inequality is typically much greater, where the effects of global warming will be more extreme, and where less money is available to protect against the consequences, they said.

Susan Rice Blames Climate Change For Conflict in Syria.  In her most dramatic speech to date about climate change, National Security Advisor Susan Rice suggests climate change was partially responsible for the conflict in Syria and represents a looming threat to the entire world. [...] An alarmed Rice warned that climate change was "an advancing menace" that portended doom for the nations around the world.

Will climate change ruin Thanksgiving?  Everything from rising sea levels in Vanuatu to worsening air quality in India to the endangerment of polar bears, sea turtles, and giant pandas around the world has been attributed to climate change.  But this Thanksgiving, climate change may hit a little closer to home.  Libby's Pumpkin, which supplies more than 85 percent of the world's canned pumpkin, says an unusually rainy spring and summer will slash annual pumpkin yields by half this year.

John Kerry Predicts Millions Of 'Climate Refugees' Will Need Special Status.  Secretary of State John Kerry warns the world that more and more people will be fleeing the devastation caused by global warming.  "It's something new.  We have climate refugees today," he said during a town hall event about the oceans.  Kerry described climate refugees as people who had to leave their homes because of drought, rising sea levels, and thawing permafrost.  "[T]he day could come, if we don't respond rapidly, you could have millions of climate refugees.  You could have people moving from whole areas where today you can grow things and tomorrow you can't," he said.

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As far as I know, John Kerry is the only person in the world claiming that global warming will make it impossible to "grow things" — and this will take effect overnight!  That aside, if the mean sea level rises one foot per century, at what point does one decide to drop everything, flee the country of his residence and head for the nearest welfare state?  If the temperature in your city goes up and down 25 or 30 degrees between day and night, it is impossible to discern a change of two degrees per century — even when such a change is underway, which currently is not the case.

A Warming World Could Totally Mean Crocodiles Everywhere Or Something.  In a sane world, this type of article would be a pure "jumping the shark" moment.  Alas, the number of bat guano crazy articles emanating from the Cult of Climastrology weekly are quite large, and never stop.

Fossil Fuels Won't Cause Armageddon.  The June 2015 release of [the Pope's] encyclical "Laudato si" marked his initial foray into the discussion.  Therein, Pope Francis echoed President Obama's tune, claiming there exists "solid scientific consensus" that human activities are causing a "disturbing warming" of the climate, which left unchecked will result in a type of planetary Armageddon manifested by escalating temperatures, melting polar ice caps, rising seas, more frequent and more severe weather, ecosystem degradation, and plant and animal extinctions, all of which he claimed will severely affect humanity. [...] But are the pope's concerns over potential global warming based upon the best available science?  Or are they significantly overinflated?

Global warming, evolution reshaping bodies of bumblebees, study says.  Global warming and evolution are reshaping the bodies of some American bumblebees, a new study finds.

New Zealand deports would-be first ever 'climate change refugee'.  New Zealand has deported a Pacific islander who launched a failed bid to become the world's first climate change refugee, the man's supporters said Thursday [9/24/2015].  Ioane Teitiota was sent to Kiribati on Wednesday after exhausting all avenues of appeal in his four-year battle to stay in New Zealand.  Mr Teitiota, 39, had argued that he should not be sent back to Kiribati as rising seas threaten to deluge the island nation of 100,000 people, making it unsafe for him and his family.

Poor nations want U.S. to pay reparations for extreme weather.  Poorer nations suffering from extreme weather disasters, so much so that their citizens are seeking refuge in safer terrains outside their borders, want rich nations like the United States to pay for reparations and to relocate populations.  Preparatory talks ahead of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change to be held in Paris in December has representatives from developing nations asking for more than an already agreed upon $100 billion per year for climate change mitigation measures.  They want additional compensation for weather-related disasters as well as a "displacement coordination facility" for refugees.  And they want all this to be legally binding as part of the larger anticipated Paris accord.  The U.S. and wealthier nations in the European Union are balking.

Obama's 'extreme climate-change agenda' blasted.  Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, threw cold water Wednesday [9/2/2015] on President Obama's Alaska climate-change tour, saying the president's proposed regulatory fixes have put him on "thin ice."  "The president is on thin ice to claim his costly plan will address climate change or benefit Americans," said the Texas Republican in a statement. [...] "The president and his EPA have become traveling salesmen, touring the world to push their extreme climate change agenda," Mr. Smith said.  "But the science doesn't support the president's exaggerated claims linking climate change to severe weather events."

Obama to offer aid to Alaskans affected by climate change.  During the first trip north of the Arctic Circle by a sitting president [9/2/2015], Obama is expected to observe first-hand the effects of warming temperatures and their effect on shorelines and community infrastructures.  The White House said he will announce federal grants to deal with coastal erosion in areas such as northwestern Alaska, which could include relocation in extreme cases.

The Editor says...
Every dollar spent on compensation for the effects of global warming is a dollar down the drain, simply because there is no global warming.

President Obama issues stern warning on climate change ahead of hike on melting Alaskan glacier.  President Barack Obama is painting a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change isn't dealt with fast: entire nations submerged underwater, cities abandoned and refugees fleeing in droves as conflict breaks out across the globe.

Obama Warns of Planet Beyond Repair: 'Submerged Countries. Abandoned Cities. Fields No Longer Growing'.  In a speech in Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday President Barack Obama warned that if nations do not act to stop climate change "we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair."  "Climate change is no longer some far-off problem," Obama said.  "It is happening here.  It is happening now.  Climate change is already disrupting our agriculture and ecosystems, our water and food supplies, our energy, our infrastructure, human health, human safety — now.  Today."  "If we were to abandon our course of action, if we stop trying to build a clean-energy economy and reduce carbon pollution, if we do nothing to keep the glaciers from melting faster, and oceans from rising faster, and forests from burning faster, and storms from growing stronger, we will condemn our children to a planet beyond their capacity to repair," he said.

Obama paints doomsday scene of global warming in Alaska.  President Barack Obama is painting a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change isn't dealt with fast:  entire nations submerged underwater, cities abandoned and refugees fleeing in droves as conflict breaks out across the globe.

Mystery lights in space increasing, moving south, potential sign of global warming.  Strange blue lights glowing on the edge of space first appeared over polar regions in 1885 and today, sightings are becoming increasingly common, and now the phenomenon is moving into lower latitudes including Northern California.  Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, these glowing space clouds may be a celestial siren, warning of Earth's global warming, according to some scientists.

EPA Administrator: Climate Change Affects 'Our Ability to Earn a Decent Living'.  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy said on Tuesday that climate change affects "everything and everyone we love," including our ability to secure a livelihood.  "Climate change is one of the most important issues [that] we face.  It is a global challenge, but in many ways it's also very personal to all of us, because it affects everything and everyone we love," McCarthy said.  "It affects our kids, our communities, even our ability to earn a decent living."

The Editor says...
Nothing in Ms. McCarthy's statement is true.  Climate change is perfectly normal, natural, and so gradual as to be imperceptible.  Global warming is neither a global challenge nor a local problem, especially since it stopped almost 20 years ago, all by itself.  It does not affect anything or anyone we know.  Not me, not you, nobody.  It certainly does not prevent anyone from earning a living.

Also posted under Lies about energy production.

400 years of ordinary weather hasn't made any difference, but now CLIMATE CHANGE is going to ruin everything.
Jamestown: the settlement's hidden history is threatened by climate change.  It wasn't until 1996 that modern scholars uncovered the original 1607 James Fort, long thought to have been lost to erosion.  In the less than two decades since, teams have been racing to uncover all they can before rising sea levels and the acidic soil destroy what's left.

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The site (of the original 1607 James Fort) is well known and already being investigated, so even if the sea level increases by a millimeter every week, arrangements could be made to deal with rising sea levels.  The soil has always been acidic, has it not?  Does one degree of temperature change affect soil acidity?  Probably not, since the temperature in Virginia varies 30 degrees between day and night.

Climate change 'urgent and growing threat' to national security: Pentagon.  A new Pentagon report says that climate change is an "urgent and growing threat to our national security" and blames it for "increased natural disasters" that will require more American troops designated to combat bad weather.  Some studies have questioned whether such a trend exists.  Says the Pentagon report released Wednesday [7/29/2015], "Global climate change will have wide-ranging implications for U.S. national security interests over the foreseeable future because it will aggravate existing problems — such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions — that threaten domestic stability in a number of countries."

EPA Chief: Climate Change Is Fact Because Bad Weather Leads the News.  EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said there is no need to continue debating the science behind climate change.  "I can remember a day when the weather report was in the middle of the domestic and international news and took about a minute and a half.  It wasn't the news.  When you go on the news today the first thing you'll hear about is the weather.  So there is a dramatic difference in the way people perceive the ability of the climate to impact their lives because they're feeling it today," McCarthy said during an event sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

The Editor says...
The weather is the lead story on the local news because it's cheap and easy to have someone state the obvious.  It is sometimes the first event in a newscast because the rest of the show isn't ready yet.  Weather is usually not an issue, and the coverage of routine conditions (which anyone with two eyes and a window can see for himself) is filler.  Weather announcers routinely tell their audiences how to avoid the effects of hot weather or cold weather or heavy rain, not because the weather is any more severe these days, but because they think the viewers are too stupid to figure it out.  So the presence of abundant weather coverage on TV is not because the weather is bad, it's because the state of journalism is bad.

Martin O'Malley: ISIS Exists Because of Climate Change.  Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley said on Bloomberg's With All Due Respect that ISIS came about because of the effects of climate change.  "One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria and the rise of ISIS, was the effects of climate change and the mega-drought that effected that region," he said, noting how it "wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, [and] created a humanitarian crisis."  "It created the symptoms, or rather the conditions of extreme poverty that has led now to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence," O'Malley concluded.

Climate change threat must be taken as seriously as nuclear war — UK minister.  The report, commissioned by the Foreign Office, and written by experts from the UK, US, China and India, is stark in its assessment of the wide-ranging dangers posed by unchecked global warming, including:  very large risks to global food security, including a tripling of food prices[,] unprecedented migration overwhelming international assistance[,] increased risk of terrorism as states fail[,] lethal heat even for people resting in shade[.]

The Editor says...
Addressing their claims in reverse order:  The summer heat is already lethal in some places, for some people.  If you attend a public school, that's called "natural selection."  (The answer to hot weather is air conditioning, or at least electric fans, for which you need plenty of coal-fired power plants.)  Terrorists aren't waiting for a reason to terrorize.  Migration (into the U.S.) is already happening in unprecedented numbers.  And as we all know, food prices only go in one direction, and that is up.  All these things are happening already, even though there has been no global warming for almost 20 years.

Interesting Reparations for Global Warming.  If you thought global warming scaremongering tactics went away with the most recent failed prediction for 2015 when we were supposed to be flooded and underwater, with little polar ice caps left, you would be mistaken.  Writing for the Washington Post, Michael B. Gerrard, a legal scholar at Columbia University's Earth Institute, proposes that we should take in millions upon millions of refugees that will eventually be displaced by climate change.  He said, "We ruined your country.  Welcome to ours."

The Editor says...
The only people who are likely to buy this outburst of America-hating rhetoric are those who already favor open borders, those who use global warming panic to expand Big Government (or unified world government), and those who don't have the ability to deconstruct an outlandish and implausible idea and see it as folly.  The "legal scholar" mentioned above is taking a sidetrack that I haven't heard of before:  He blames global warming on the United States per se, not just the industrial revolution or the widespread use of hydrocarbons as fuel.  Ask yourself this question:  Which country, anywhere in the world, has been "ruined" by global warming?  Name one.  But before you answer, bear in mind that global warming stopped almost 20 years ago, and even before it stopped, it was extremely gradual.

National Geographic: Yeah, Climate Change Part Of Reason For NC Shark Attacks.  The Cult of Climastrology must always find a way to bring their pet political cause into almost any event.

The White House Wants Your Doctor To Teach You About Global Warming.  The Obama administration has been hard at work trying to draw a link between global warming and public health issues.  The summit included the U.S. Surgeon General, top administration officials, and public health experts from around the country telling doctors, nurses and other conference goers how to talk about global warming with their patients.  The central message:  doctors should warn their patients that global warming could make their health worse.

This has never been true before, and it's not true now.
White House, EPA say climate change a dire threat to economy, human health.  Failure to act on climate change could cause an estimated 57,000 deaths a year in the United States from poor air quality by 2100, the Obama administration argued in a report released Monday [6/22/2015] that warns of dire effects of global warming.

Global warming will shrink loaves of bread.  Yes, loaves of bread are under assault from global warming, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.  Loaves will be smaller because of increased carbon dioxide in the air.

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Anyone who is familiar with the chemistry involved in baking bread can see through this immediately.  In the first place, one degree of global warming is immaterial, since bread is prepared indoors and dough is allowed to rise in a warm place.  In the second place, the carbon dioxide content of the ambient air — besides being demonstrably independent of warming — is immaterial because yeast produces its own carbon dioxide during fermentation, which is what makes bread dough rise.  The original article (below) describes a very dubious demonstration of the purported effects of high CO2 concentrations on wheat, or rather the bread which was made from the flour which was made from the wheat in the (apparently outdoor) test area.  Apparently one crop of wheat resulted in one loaf of shrunken bread.  An experiment with a sample size of one does not prove anything.

What climate change will do to your loaf of bread.  On the right is a loaf made from grain grown in today's climate conditions.  On the left is a loaf made from grain that sprouted in concentrations of carbon dioxide that are expected by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions aren't reduced significantly.

Claim: Climate will inhibit bread dough from rising.  I have hand prepared fresh bread at least twice a week, for the last 5 years.  There are so many variables which can influence bread dough.  The air temperature is the obvious variable, but bread is also very sensitive to the amount of water, the temperature of the water, the amount of salt and shortening or fat, how long you mix the dough, the type of bowl it is mixed in [...] To ignore all of this, and conclude that CO2 shrunk the slightly stunted loaf, in my opinion seems utterly absurd, even for climate science.

Mankind will be extinct in 100 years because of climate change, warns expert.  Humans will be extinct in 100 years due to overcrowding, declining resources and climate change, according to a prominent scientist.  The comments were first made by Australian microbiologist Dr Frank Fenner in 2010, but engineer and science writer David Auerbach has reiterated the doom-laden warning in his latest article.  He criticises the recent G7 summit for failing to deal with the problems facing the survival of humanity, such as global warming and exhausting Earth's resources.

Delusional Obama links climate change and terrorism.  President Obama's assertion in his commencement address to cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that the rise of ISIS in Syria and Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the brutality of both, is somehow linked to climate change shows just how dangerously detached from reality U.S. foreign policy has become.  For those who wondered why upwards of two hundred thousand have died in Syria, Boko Haram abducts Christian schoolgirls, and ISIS beheads and burns people alive in its reign of terror, the president placed a major part of the blame on fossil fuels and your SUV.

Nevermind terror, Obama tells the military global warming is imminent security threat.  Finally, President Obama addressed what he sees as the nation's worst security threat, just days after the fall of Ramadi to ISIS and North Korea's declaration that it has miniaturized a nuclear warhead to fit on an ICBM capable of reaching the United States.  In a speech to graduates at the Coast Guard Academy, Obama said, yes, yes, terrorism is a grave danger.  But there's another one.  "We cannot, and we must not, ignore a peril that can affect generations," the commander-in-chief declared ominously.  That threat?  Global warming.

Global Warming Now Responsible for Islamic Terrorism.  President Barack Obama's attempts to provide cover for Islamic terrorists by first declaring global warming/climate change "a national security threat" and then excusing their ongoing carnage with the absurd claim that it was global warming that set them off, must be the biggest political scam in all of human history.  It was supposedly feeling the ravages of climate change that set Islamic terrorism on a worldwide rampage?  How do the mainstream media, Obama's so-called political opponents and the masses let him get away with this outrageous, over-the-top claim?

A Complete List Of Bad Things Attributed To Global Warming.  Hardly a day goes by that the media don't blame something on global warming.  Or so it seems.  The British-based science watchdog, Number Watch, wondered just how many and went to the trouble of documenting them.  It has kept on its Web site a near-comprehensive set of links to a long list of things attributed by either scientific research or the media to global warming.  As you read it, some items will strike you as contradictory.  Others, perhaps, as merely absurd.  And still others as factually impossible.  However they strike you, in perusing the list one thing will become clear:  just how much the fear of global warming has come to taint both science and news reporting on the issue.

Global-Warming Guacamole.  That California's catastrophic drought is a result of global warming has become a commonplace of contemporary political rhetoric.  That truism isn't true:  Most scientific accounts of California's current dry spell link recent low precipitation to naturally occurring atmospheric cycles, not to global warming.  Indeed, most of the global-warming models relied upon by those advocating more-invasive environmental policies predict that warming would leave California with wetter winters — winter precipitation being critical to the snowpack-dependent state — rather than the drier winters at the root of the state's current water crisis.

Warming seas may spell end to Britain's fish and chips.  Warming seas may spell the end to traditional British food favourites such as haddock and chips, researchers said on Monday [4/13/2015].  Haddock, plaice and lemon sole are to decline in numbers as the North Sea warms by a predicted 1.8 degrees Celsius (35.24 degrees [sic] Fahrenheit) over 50 years, according to research by University of Exeter scientists.

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The writer of the article above can't convert °C. to °F., so the rest of his or her assertions can be proportionally discounted as well.  This is another vague prediction of what might happen in the worst case over the next 50 to 100 years.  In all likelihood, no shortages of fish will ever result from climate change, largely because fish are able to swim up or down to find warmer or cooler water — even if the dreaded 1.8 degree estimates turn out to be accurate, which (in my opinion) they won't.

Obama on impact of climate change on his family's health.  "I've seen how scary it is when your kid comes up to you, your four-year-old, and says, 'I'm having trouble breathing,'" the president told CBS News' Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook.  "Malia -- early on, when she was young -- had asthma," Mr. Obama explained.  "And we had to go to the emergency room once.  We had good health insurance, and we had the capacity to really knock it out early, so that over time, she was able to not have to carry an inhaler around."

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I just have a few rhetorical questions:  Doesn't the Obama family live in a climate-controlled environment 24 hours a day, unless they're on the beach in Hawaii?  Was Malia's asthma caused by the climate change in the first four years of her life?  If the climate had been one degree cooler for those four years, would she not have experienced asthma anyway?  Did the emergency room doctor tell Mr. or Mrs. Obama that her asthma was caused by climate change?  Has any doctor ever told any patient such a thing?

Sorry, Mr. President, Global Warming Didn't Cause Malia's Asthma.  The White House this week organized a roundtable with government and public health officials to warn that global warming is an immediate health threat and discuss how to deal with it.  A White House fact sheet says that asthma rates have doubled in the U.S. over the past three decades, and that "climate change is putting these individuals ... at greater risk of landing in the hospital."  More wildfires, meanwhile, will increase the amount of air pollution from harmful particulate matter. [...] If it all sounds scary, it's meant to.

Why Obama Pretends That Global Warming Caused His Daughter's Asthma.  Any politician knows how to tell lies.  A skilled politician knows how to exploit his children as props.  To make it to the top of the big brown pile, you need to know how to exploit your children to prop up lies. [...] Anyone who doesn't want to sacrifice what's left of our freedom and standard of living to the debunked global warming hoax can now be denounced as insensitive toward children.  Even when unavoidable climate change brings welcome warmer temperatures, the connection with asthma is tenuous at best.

Obama presents climate change as hazard to your health.  President Barack Obama will ask Americans to think of climate change as a threat not just to the environment, but also to their health.

Dem resolution warns global warming could force women into prostitution.  A California congresswoman warns global warming will be so detrimental to poor women, it will drive them to prostitution.  Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., has re-introduced legislation that forces the government to address all "policies and programs in the United States that are globally related to climate change" through the lens of gender.

How many degrees of warming does this require?
Congresswoman Claims Climate Change Will Turn Women Into Prostitutes.  On Wednesday [3/25/2015], California Democrat Barbara Lee proposed a resolution in the House of Representatives that claims women will eventually be forced into prostitution in order to obtain life-sustaining food and water for their families.  Lee introduced House Concurrent Resolution 29, warning that women will be forced into "transactional sex" to get enough food and clean water — all because global warming will create "conflict and instability" in the world.

The Editor says...
If warmer temperatures cause prostitution, why doesn't prostitution stop during the winter?

Rep. Barbara Lee: Stop Global Warming Before Everyone Gets an STI.  I don't delve much into the Global Climate Change debate, mostly because it seems like there's no real way to be part of the conversation on either side without looking like a complete lunatic, and I already do more than enough of that.  While I believe that stewardship of the environment is a very important thing, I'm not sure how the government, which can barely deliver the mail correctly on a good day, and frequently spends thirty times more on an item from a hardware store than it would cost on the black market in North Korea, is qualified to address the tragedies associated with a burning atmosphere and a rising ocean level.

Will Global Warming Cause Prostitution?  [Scroll down]  The point is that people, plants and animals thrive, and have thrived, across a very broad range of temperatures.  Polar bears — to take one ludicrously-hyped example — have lived for millions of years under conditions both much warmer and much colder than any now in prospect.  People, today, live under a far broader range of temperatures than any prospective change due to global warming, even if the alarmists are right.

More giant craters spotted in Russia's far north.  All of the craters have been discovered in the remote energy-rich Yamalo-Nenetsky region in north-western Siberia.  Scientists say that rather than aliens or meteorites, the holes are caused by the melting of underground ice in the permafrost, which has possibly been sped up by rising temperatures due to global warming.  "The phenomenon is similar to the eruption of a volcano," said Bogoyavlensky.

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If the "permafrost" is so permanent, how many degrees of warming would be required to melt it?  And how can underground ice be affected by atmospheric warming, even if there had been any, which there hasn't.  And if global warming is the cause, why aren't craters like this popping up all over the world?  These craters look to me like the remnants of hitherto unknown nuke tests from decades ago.  If you think one or two degrees of "climate change" can blow holes in the ground, you must have attended a public school.

Gina McCarthy has a hammer, and everything looks like a nail.
Climate change puts coffee at risk, EPA chief warns.  Americans' morning caffeine rush ultimately could be a casualty of climate change, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy said Wednesday [3/11/2015].  In a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, Ms. McCarthy said the changing climate — which she believes is largely caused by human activity — puts economies, global security and food supplies at risk.  Coffee lovers also will eventually feel the effects, the EPA chief said.  "Climate change puts the world's coffee-growing regions at risk," Ms. McCarthy said, adding that the world must begin to weave climate-change efforts into virtually every other policy.

Climate change key in Syrian conflict — and it will trigger more war in future.  Climate change was a key driver of the Syrian uprising, according to research which warns that global warming is likely to unleash more wars in the coming decades, with Eastern Mediterranean countries such as Jordan and Lebanon particularly at risk.  Experts have long predicted that climate change will be a major source of conflict as drought and rising temperatures hurt agriculture, putting a further strain on resources in already unstable regimes.

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How is the climate in Syria any different today than it was 100 years ago?

White House: Seven in Ten Doctors Say Climate Change Is Harming Patients.  Usually when the Obama administration is discussing doctors and health issues, Obamacare is on the table.  Thursday [2/26/2015] however, the White House threw a curve by linking health to climate change.  In a new blog post, the White House declares that "7 out of 10 Doctors [say] Climate Change Is Already Harming Patients' Health."  While often the White House has been a source of upbeat reports on recent health improvements attributed in part to the Affordable Care Act, the language of this post stands in sharp contrast.  For example: [...]

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Climate changing at the rate of one degree over a person's lifetime is not going to harm anyone.  Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that the White House is lying, unless of course the seven (out of ten) doctors happen to be Democrat activists.

Al Roker: Extreme Weather This Winter Made Possible By Climate Change.  Larry King Live: "In an in-depth interview with Larry in New York, America's most trusted weatherman says he thinks the extreme Winter weather in the northeast this season has been fueled by climate change."  [Video clip]

Also posted under Media bias on environmental topics.

Wind tax credits little more than corporate welfare; China is the real climate battlefield.  In their OpEd, [Laura] Dorle and [Katie] Chapman claim that global warming is a cause for the Gulf of Maine shrimp decline.  Yet the authors don't tell us that this seafood stock is at the southern edge of its range for this species and that its abundance at the fringe of its distribution could easily be affected by natural environmental variability, decadal increases in vessel catchability and chronic overfishing.  The authors conveniently ignore these other factors that may cause this (and other) seafood species to vary in abundance but instead implicate global warming as the sole culprit for the shrimp decline simply because it fits their narrative.  This is purposely misleading.

Obama signs executive order aimed at reducing flood damage from climate change.  President Obama on Friday [1/30/2015] signed an executive director requiring all roads, buildings and other pieces of infrastructure paid for with federal money to be built in areas with less risk of flooding.  With the order, Mr. Obama established the "Federal Flood Risk Management Standard," which makes the case that climate change will make floods more common and much more destructive.

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Here we have an example of President Obama bypassing the Congress to spend money we don't have on a problem that doesn't exist.  If world-wide climate is warming at the rate of one or two degrees per century, flooding is not going to develop overnight, and may never develop at all.  (How much polar ice is within one degree of melting?  Divide that by the mass of the oceans, and that's how much change one degree of warming will produce.)  The predictions of environmental gloom and doom have sold a lot of books over the last 50 years, but none of it ever comes to pass.  President Obama is merely attempting to accomplish something before leaving the White House; but alas, Mr. Obama has only two job skills:  He knows how to read a teleprompter and he knows how to spend other people's money.

Global Warming So Bad Great Lakes Need Another Icebreaker.  Earlier this month came much blubbering about 2014 being the warmest year in history.  We set the record straight on that but, well, the alarmists won't give up.  They can't help themselves.  They would make the same claims if 2014 had been the coldest year on record.  Remember, it's not global warming anymore.  It's climate change.  The new name allows the alarmists great latitude in their claims.  No matter which way the thermometer moves, no matter how much it snows or doesn't snow, or rains or doesn't rain, they will say that man's burning of fossil fuel is causing the climate to change.

Kerry Uses Tsunami Anniversary to Push 'Climate Change' Agenda.  Secretary of State John Kerry used the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Indian Ocean region as a reminder about climate change.  The earthquake released huge walls of water that inundated a number of coastal regions in both Asia and Africa just before Christmas in 2004.

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Since when are earthquakes affected by the atmospheric climate?

The Gods Have Made Them Mad.  It used to strike me as impossible for global warming to cause cold weather.  Then I realized that I could chill a soft drink in the oven if there were no room left in the refrigerator to bake a cake. [...] I must admit, however, that I have yet to figure how to know when the brakes will brake and when they'll accelerate.  If I could understand that, perhaps I could understand when and under what circumstances carbon dioxide heats the air and when it cools it.  Then I wouldn't risk causing a drought with a rain dance.

Liberalism in Ruins.  [Scroll down]  Take also global warming — for Secretary of State John Kerry, the world's greatest challenge.Once the planet did not heat up in the last 18 years, and once the ice of the polar caps did not melt away, global warming begat climate change.  The new nomenclature was a clever effort to link all occasional weather extremities to some underlying and fundamental climate disruption.  Brilliant though the strategy was — the opposites of cold/hot, drought/deluges, and calm/storms could now all be used as proof of permanent climate change — global warming finally was hoist on its own petard:  If it caused everything, then it caused nothing.

"Our Energy Policy is Insane: This is the Inconvenient Truth".  A host of data shows all catastrophic events allegedly caused by CAGW occurred in the past when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were lower and constant.  For many weather events, rates of occurrences recently declined.  The U.S. government provides data on various climate events CAGW proponents claim are increased — heat waves, record high temperatures, flooding, drought, wildfires, reduced snowfall, tornadoes, hurricanes, sea level rise, and Arctic ice melting.  Inspection of data shows CAGW claims are false or exaggerated.  Omitted from the data released by climate alarmists is satellite global temperature data show there has been no global warming since the super El Nino in the Spring 1998.

Foregone Conclusions of Global Warming.  Seems that any weather, warm or cold, wet or dry, storms or lack of, points to the foregone conclusion of global warming, just as every single person in Iraq made it to the polls on election day and voted to reelect Saddam.  Blame it on the polar vortex, according to climate scientists.  Warming oceans and melting ice are weakening the vortex, causing colder, snowier winters.  Huh?  This year has given us, "The earliest ice on some of the Great Lakes in at least 40 years."  Arctic ice is decreasing as Antarctic ice is increasing, meaning a shift, not a net loss.  How does one reasonably draw conclusions from conflicting and contradictory data?  Unless the conclusions are foregone and data is simply window dressing.

Say, Remember When Warmists Said "Climate Change" Would Reduce Lake Effect Snow?  Does global warming cause more lake effect snow or less lake effect snow?  The answer from Warmists if you ask them?  "Yes."  Because, as we all know, no matter what happens with the weather, it will be blamed on "climate change" caused by the actions of Humanity.

Yet Another Hysterical Article Blaming Cold And Snowy Winters On AGW.  These [buffoons] have created a tautology where by nothing can ever disprove their beliefs.  Yes, what they are positing is poppycock, [...] but Warmists are too fanatical to understand nor ever give up.  They are as far removed from science as those practicing witchcraft.

Climate Hysteria and the Buffalo Snowpocalypse.  Once the snow started falling in Buffalo this past week, the sound of climate alarmists running to their keyboards in order to blame climate change became deafening.  And, as always, problems abound in their analyses.

John Kerry Thinks Climate Change Causes Radical Islam.  Secretary of State John Kerry repeated his assertion that radical Islam, which he simply calls "extremism", results in part from climate change.  It's not religion that guides extremism, it's the weather.  John Kerry commemorated Eid al-Adha at a reception in the State Department Delegates' Lounge last week.  That was the event in which he tied Israel to the rise of ISIL (ISIS).  The theme appeared to be that extremists, which he won't call by their name — radical Islamists — are not responsible for their actions.  Rather their behaviors are caused by climate change, poverty, poor leaders, out of work youth, jealousy of the West.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Ebola: 'Consequence of Deforestation and Climate Change'.  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service posted on its website an article that claims Ebola is a "direct consequence" of manmade climate change.  The article also stated that the virus specifically threatens conservation efforts focused on ape and monkey populations in Africa, including those in Guinea, one of the countries experiencing an Ebola outbreak and where the U.S.-run Chimpanzee Conservation Center is located.  "The larger conservation connection, however, is perhaps less obvious:  Ebola appears to be a direct consequence of deforestation and human disturbance," the article stated.

Did someone mention Ebola?

Few U.S. states preparing for climate change, study says.  Fwewer than half of American states are working to protect themselves from climate change, despite more detailed warnings from scientists that communities are already being damaged, according to a new online clearinghouse of states' efforts compiled by the Georgetown Climate Center.

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It's hard to imagine that "communities are already being damaged" by global warming, since there has been no global warming for the last 18 years.

Hagel: Climate change a 'threat multiplier'.  Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called on other nations to join the Pentagon in taking steps to mitigate and adapt to climate change, calling it a "threat multiplier" that could exacerbate global challenges if left unaddressed.  "Climate change is a threat multiplier," Hagel said at the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas in Arequipa, Peru, "because it has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we already confront today — from infectious disease to armed insurgencies — and to produce new challenges in the future."

Scientists to 'fast-track' evidence linking global warming to wild weather.  Scientists are to challenge the climate-change sceptics by vastly improving the speed with which they can prove links between a heatwave or other extreme weather event and man-made changes to the atmosphere.  It typically takes about a year to determine whether human-induced global warming played a role in a drought, storm, torrential downpour or heatwave — and how big a role it played.  This allows climate sceptics to dismiss any given extreme event as part of the "natural weather variation" in the immediate aftermath, while campaigners automatically blame it on global warming.

HUFFPO Authors: Climate Change To Blame For Rise Of ISIS.  A read-it-to-believe-it column in the Huffington Post is demanding that each American do more to stop the looming threat of the Islamic State — by recycling.  Arguing a direct correlation between droughts in Syria and the rise of Islamist extremism, the authors blame climate change for the terrorist group's advance in the Middle East.  With a title like "How Climate Change Helped ISIS," one would expect the article to be two words long:  "it didn't."

Of Course: Newsweek Clowns Link Ebola and So-Called 'Climate Change'.  This may well be the dumbest thing we've seen so far today, but it's still early. [...] Despite all evidence to the contrary they still claim temperatures are rising, when they obviously are not.  Yet the media just keeps repeating the lies.

CBS Medical Correspondent: 'Climate Change' Linked to Ebola, Child Paralysis Virus.  In a report on a mysterious virus causing paralysis in children that aired on "CBS This Morning" earlier this week, Dr. David Agus, a medical contributor for CBS News and a University of Southern California medical professor, discussed a so-called enterovirus that is believed to behind paralysis and muscle weakness in nine Colorado children.  The virus, known as Enterovirus D68, had spread throughout the country.

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I suspect the mysterious new virus was introduced by some of the recent illegal immigrants from Central America, most of whom (I surmise) have never had any inoculations.  Many diseases are spread by mosquitos, and mosquitos would be easily controlled by DDT, if it hadn't been outlawed years ago in response to environmental alarmists.

Thousands of Walruses Are Gathering on Alaska's Shore.  Nearly 35,000 walruses were discovered this month on a northwest Alaskan shore as result of being unable to find sea ice to rest upon, a problem aggravated by climate change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.

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There is a minimum of ice at the North Pole because summer ended about a week ago.  And maybe a walrus likes to hang out on the beach once in a while.  In any case, there is no reason to blame global warming, because there hasn't been any global warming in 18 years.

The Walrus and the Climate Hysterics.  The "walrus crisis" is the Left's latest effort to bully us into electing Democrats.  Because... they're going to do something about the walruses, I guess.  Hard to say what.  Chase them back onto the ice, maybe.  Like the other manifestations of climate hysteria, the walrus crisis is entirely fabricated.  First, let's note what how great it is that you can find 35,000 Pacific walruses in one place.  It is a sign of a thriving wildlife population, estimated to have doubled since the 1950s.

Ten questions for Al Gore.  [Scroll down]  An outstanding question came from a scientist who would not allow his name to be used since he has received death threats as a result of his stance on climate change.  He asked, "Every time there is a flood or a cyclone or any natural disaster anywhere on the globe, immediately climate scientists are pronouncing with certainty that it is due to global warming.  Now there is no global warming for the past 17 years.  How long it will take for the climate scientists to accept the reality that their models and projections bear absolutely no resemblance to what is actually happening?"

Climate change may add billions to wildfire costs, study says.  As wildfires burned in California, a study by several major environmental groups estimated that climate change could mean that future blazes will be much larger and add billions of dollars to already costly losses.  The 46-page study released Tuesday, titled "Flammable Planet: Wildfires and the Social Cost of Carbon," is part of an ongoing project by three groups to examine what it calls the missing risks, such as wildfires, that climate change can make more expensive.

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[#1] Wildfires have existed for millenia because lightning sometimes strikes piles of dead trees and dry brush.  [#2] Fighting wildfires costs as much or as little as you care to spend.  [#3] Environmentalists are worried about a temperature increase of two degrees per century.  If the climate warmed by two degrees in the next 30 minutes, and the two-degree step was permanent, nobody would notice until they heard about it from the news media.

Oops: First Species Wiped Out By Climate Change Lives.  [V]irtually ever animal issue they try and blame on man caused climate change turns out to be wrong.

Half of North American bird species threatened by climate change.  Half of all bird species in North America — including the bald eagle — are at risk of severe population decline by 2080 if the swift pace of global warming continues, the National Audubon Society concluded in a study released Monday [9/8/2014].

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Excuse me for repeating myself, but once again, these "threatened species" alarmists are the same people who teach "survival of the fittest" in the public schools.  They should have no problem with natural selection running its course.  But it is a bit difficult to blame extinctions on global warming when there has been no global warming for the past 18 years.

Global Warming Jumps the Shark.  This was the week when global warming jumped the shark.  Just like it did last week.  And the one before...

Could climate change doom Maine lobsters?  Imagine Cape Cod without cod.  Maine without lobster.  The region's famous rocky beaches invisible, obscured by constant high waters.  It's already starting to happen.  The culprit is the warming seas — and in particular the Gulf of Maine, whose waters are heating up faster than 99 percent of the world's oceans, scientists say.

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If the "rocky beaches" are underwater, they must have sunk, because the sea level hasn't risen.  The entire story above sounds like a work of fiction provided by some environmental activist group and happily propagated by CBS News.

Environmentalists Try To Connect Ferguson And 'Climate Crisis'.  Frequently criticized for being insufficiently diverse, environmentalists are trying to draw parallels between the crisis erupting in Ferguson, Missouri and global warming.  "It was not hard for me to make the connection between the tragedy in Ferguson, Missouri, and the catalyst for my work to stop the climate crisis," writes Deirdre Smith, strategic partnership coordinator for the environmental group 350.org.  Smith ties the "institutional neglect of vulnerable communities in crisis" into the environmental movement's war against fossil fuels, which she claims hit minority communities the hardest.

HUH? Global Warming Causes Global Cooling?  This sounds like things are getting a bit desperate for the folks in the global warming industry.  Global Warming researchers from the United States and China on Thursday [8/21/2014] explained why the rapid global warming in the late 20th century has been slowing down over the last 15 years.  Actually it hasn't slowed down, it's stopped and as of the beginning of August it's not 15 years but the earth hasn't shown any warming for 17 years, 10 months.

You Thought There Was no Possible Link Between Ferguson and Climate Change? Think Again....  Climate change is a serious problem because... Ferguson.  So says environmental activist Deirdre Smith of left-wing pressure group 350.org.  In an editorial written for Common Dreams ("Breaking News and Views for the Progressive Community"), she claims that it "isn't hard" to link the current tensions in Ferguson, Missouri with global warming.

After brutal winter and cool summer, UK paper blames Toledo water crisis on global warming.  Even though last winter saw the second-highest ever of ice coverage on the Great Lakes, a left-wing British newspaper, the Guardian, is blaming agricultural — and global warming — for the toxic algal blooms that have made Toledo's water supply unsafe.  The Ohio city gets its drinking water from Lake Erie.

Daily Kos Fail on Linking Washington State Fire to Climate Change.  What a tragedy.  I've been officially labelled a climate denier.  Of course I deny there is a climate, and I deny weather, too.  No term greater exemplifies the intellectual void on the activist left than "climate denier."  But even more egregious is that the Daily Kos thinks there is evidence that the Carlton Complex of fires in Washington is the result of anthropogenic climate change.  There is no such evidence at all.  The Kos said I failed to cite the sources for my data.  I guess the radical left suffers from an absence of basic reading comprehension skills.

A Global Fire History of the Past Century.  What does it reveal about the relative roles of climate change and direct human impacts?

Attack of the Chicago climate change maggots.  As Washington still fights over whether or not climate change is real, people across the country are already paying costs scientists ascribe to it — sometimes in unexpected places.  You might think about climate change in terms of rising sea levels threatening coastal cities.  But all over the Midwest, from Chicago to Indianapolis and Milwaukee, residents face just as many difficult issues as changing weather patterns collide with aging infrastructure.

U.S. Amb. Blames 'Climate Change' for Hotel That Collapsed 12 Years Ago on African Beach.  U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power posted photos on Twitter Wednesday [7/16/2014] to illustrate the purported effects of climate change on a West African nation's coastline, but the pictures show a hotel that collapsed into the sea 12 years ago, the victim of erosion blamed largely on years of illegal mining of coastal sand. [...] A Nexis search of news reports going back almost two decades shows that Benin, like its Gulf of Guinea neighbors, has long struggled with coastal erosion, a problem recorded since the 1960s.  The earlier reports, however, say nothing about climate change, rising sea levels or melting icecaps.

Fire Statistics Debunk Asserted Link to Global Warming.  The unusually quiet 2013 fire season continued a long-term trend in declining wildfires.  From 1962 through 1982, for example, at least 100,000 wildfires occurred in the United States every year.  Since 1982, however, not a single year has registered 100,000 wildfires.  During the past decade, an average of 73,000 wildfires occurred each year.  During the 1970s, by contrast, an average of 155,000 wildfires occurred each year.

Climate Change Induced Corn-mageddon?  According to NOAA's own data, long-term drought has all but disappeared in the U.S. corn belt, and it is only getting wetter and wetter over time.  And yes, that trend towards massively anti-drought conditions in the corn belt is also massively statistically significant.  We find the exact same highly statistically significant trends towards far less drought in the corn belt since the late 1800s when we look at the 48-month, 36-month, 24-month, annual, May-October, or summertime PDSI.  It is absurd to suggest that droughts in the American corn belt are becoming more frequent or severe due to climate change.  The exact opposite is taking place.

10 Things Liberals Insanely Link To 'Global Warming'.  [#1] Global Warming Causes Rape [...] Back in February, the "brilliant" minds at Mother Jones published an article claiming that global warming will cause an increase of 180,000 rapes by the year 2099.  The good news is that if you're reading this article, you won't be around for the neighborhood rape parties, but the bad news, unfortunately, is that people actually believe this stuff.

Insurance Co. Sues After Storm, Claims Inadequate 'Climate Change' Preparation by City Officials.  The Farmers Insurance Company is suing 98 Illinois towns, Cook County, and the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, asserting they were insufficiently prepared to deal with the effects of global warming that allegedly caused heavy rains and flooding in those areas last spring, damaging property, which led to expensive claims against the company.  "During the past 40 years, climate change in Cook County has caused rains to be of greater volume, greater intensity and greater duration than pre-1970 rainfall history evidenced," reads the lawsuit, adding that the infrastructure systems used by the towns to manage the heavy rainfall apparently are "inaccurate and obsolete."

The Hard Sell on Climate Change.  More and more people in the middle of America — both geographically and culturally — have come to believe either that global warming is manageable or that extraordinary efforts to slow the economy to combat it aren't worth the cost.  But that "doesn't faze the bicoastal urban media elite," says Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.  These elites, he adds, "have become more hysterical in their treatment of the issue, blaming everything from drought to wildfires to hurricanes on climate change."

Global Warming Alarmists Are Getting Desperate.  California Gov. Jerry Brown's absurd contention that LAX Airport is going to be turned into a bathtub because of climate change is the latest example of how know-nothings in the media, entertainment and politics are reaching for ever more questionable arguments as they continue to fail to stoke fears in an American public that, contrary to their hateful claims, largely believes in global warming but isn't particularly worried about it.  Brown said that due to changes in glacier mass (breathlessly hyped as "collapse" by the media), in 200 years "the Los Angeles airport's going to be underwater."  No, it isn't.  A projected four-foot rise in sea levels won't much affect the airport, which sits 120 feet above sea level.

The Real Weapon Of Mass Destruction: 'Climate Change' Or Barack Obama?  Working for the Obama Administration on a project called the National Climate Assessment, the scientists warned immediate action has to be taken by governments acting in concert (sounds like global government) to prevent a global catastrophe. [...] The report stated that corn producers in Iowa, oyster growers in Washington State and maple syrup producers in Vermont are all observing climate-related changes that are "outside of recent experience."  Left out was whether dogs and cats are living together in California, but you get the drift; without the help of Obama and other Democrats, planet Earth faces an environmental Armageddon.

Governor Moonbeam Lectures GOP on Climate Change.  There are about 1500 wild fires raging in Southern California — an annual occurrence as nature clears out old, dry scrub so that new sprouts can take hold.  The danger, of course, is that a hundred years ago, there weren't million dollar homes in the path of these fires, so residents rightly are anxious and fire fighters exhaust themselves trying to bring the blazes under control.  Also a hundred years ago, there was no theory that global warming was causing the wild fires.

UK Guardian: 'Climate Change' to Blame for Boko Haram and Nigerian Girls' Kidnapping.  Britain's Guardian newspaper has come up with a novel explanation for the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria.  Conventional analyses have pinned the blame on the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram (which means:  "Western education is forbidden").  But according to the Guardian's Nafeez Ahmed, the real culprit is 'climate change.'

Warming disrupts Americans' lives: federal report.  Most Americans are already feeling man-made global warming, from heat waves to wild storms to longer allergy seasons.  And it is likely to get worse and more expensive, says a new federal report that is heating up political debate along with the temperature.  Shortly after the report came out Tuesday, President Barack Obama used several television weathermen to make his point about the bad weather news and a need for action to curb carbon pollution before it is too late.

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Carbon dioxide is not carbon, nor is it pollution.  So-called journalists call it "carbon" because they are lazy and they think you are too stupid to know what dioxide means.  And if you graduated from one of their schools, that may be a valid assumption.

Fed report: Warming [is] disrupting Americans' lives.  The report emphasizes how warming and its all-too-wild weather are changing daily lives, even using the phrase 'climate disruption' as another way of saying global warming.

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Big Government is far more disruptive than bad weather.  Bad weather goes away sooner or later, but Big Government does not.

White House sets out looming climate risks for U.S., calls for 'urgent action'.  Flooded rail lines.  Bigger, more frequent droughts.  A rash of wildfires.  Those are some of the alarming predictions in a White House climate change report released Tuesday, part of President Barack Obama's broader second-term effort to help the nation prepare for the effects of higher temperatures, rising sea levels and more erratic weather.

Obama EPA Chief Regina McCarthy: Pollution holds African-Americans back.  Regina "Gina" McCarthy, President Obama's chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, has essentially called pollution a force of racism in the US, saying that pollution is "holding back millions of African-Americans."  McCarthy made even more strange comments at an April 24 appearance at Clark Atlanta University sponsored by the Hip Hop Caucus, [...] The EPA chief, who was appointed by Obama in July of last year, claimed that black students are the "most vulnerable to climate change" and they should become "champion climate justice advocates."  Turning pollution into an excuse to throw the race card, McCarthy claimed that stopping pollution is all about "equity" and that minorities have been "overburdened by pollution and environmental health hazards for far too long."

Kerry: Climate Change 'Forcing Farmers Out of Business and Driving Up Grocery Bills'.  Kerry stressed that "climate change's impacts aren't far off in the future — they are here and now," adding in bold type, "We're increasingly seeing events like those that scientists have long predicted."  "Extreme droughts are hammering crop production, forcing farmers out of business and driving up grocery bills.  More intense floods and storm surges are causing billions in property damage.  The coasts are swiftly eroding, rendering home after home uninhabitable or uninsurable.  We still have a short window of time to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, but the science tells us that window is closing," he said.

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I challenge Mr. Kerry, or you, or anyone else, to name one farmer who was forced out of business because of climate change.  The climate has always changed, and farmers have always planned ahead for it and/or adapted to it when it happened.

Experts say climate change could result in higher coffee prices.  Could climate change mean paying more for your morning cup of coffee?  One climate panel says "yes."  According to the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC), pests, rising heat and extreme temperatures resulting from climate change may actually impact the supply of coffee.  The news has those in the coffee industry worried.

Climate change is damaging fish brains and causing them to lose their survival instinct, researchers warn.  Fish are losing their survival instinct as the world's oceans become more acidic because of climate change, researchers have claimed.  The study confirms laboratory experiments showing that the behavior of reef fishes can be seriously affected by increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the ocean.

Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say.  Climate change's latest casualty appears to be fish — or more specifically, fish brains — as researchers say the carbon dioxide that's being absorbed into the ocean is causing the scaly creatures to lose their survival instincts.  In other words, the fish are losing their minds, The Daily Mail reported.  The acid from atmospheric carbon dioxide seeps into sea waters, dissolves and ultimately lowers the pH balance, researchers said.  The acidic waters then hamper the fishes' sensory systems, so they're not able to distinguish between smells any longer, the scientists went on.

Sunk: Climate change threatens to flood world's largest Navy base warns Gov. Terry McAuliffe.  Recently elected Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is warning that global warming could raise sea levels high enough to flood the Hampton Roads region, home to the world's largest naval base, without immediate and "smart decisions."  Addressing an environmental summit this week at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., McAuliffe embraced climate change, blamed humans for causing it, and said action is needed now to protect Virginia's coast from rising ocean levels that will result from global warming.  "The first big decision of course is to accept that climate change is real," he told the group.  "I happen to believe in climate change.  And I happen to believe that humans contribute to climate change."

The Editor says...
If the mean sea level rises enough to flood Hampton, Virginia, or any other coastal city, it will rise over the course of many decades or centuries, during which time the necessary preparations can be made, such as they have been already in places like New Orleans.  Global warming alarmism typically includes rash pronouncements about massive government spending projects that must be undertaken immediately to avoid catastophe.  It is easy to see that global warming is just an excuse to expand the government, based on conditions that may never materialize.  In the case of alleged coastal flooding, it makes sense to wait and see, since it won't happen overnight.

Al Gore Brings Climate Change message to Kansas City.  Al Gore has been known for his climate change warnings since the 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth."  But the former vice president, speaking Saturday in Kansas City, cited many more recent examples how heavy use of fossil fuels is contributing to extreme weather events and trends, in his view.  Gore filled a Westin Crown Center ballroom with a 90-minute presentation, using photos and videos to illustrate a litany of floods, wildfires, torrential rains, droughts, dust storms, rising sea levels and increasing world temperatures.

Mother Jones: Study Shows Global Warming May Cause More Rape.  The phenomenon of global warming has been used to explain many things, but now Mother Jones is quoting a study saying it might cause more rapes of women.  Matthew Ranson, an economist, avers that there is a historical connection between warmer temperatures and increased crime.  He said, "Looking at the past, we see a strong relationship between temperature and crime.  We think that is likely to continue in the future."

Climate change brings more crime.  A new study broadens a notion held by the earliest criminologists:  Periods of higher temperatures — on an hour-by-hour or week-to-week basis — are likely to produce more crime.  The study by Matthew Ranson of Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass., suggests global warming will trigger more crimes including murders and rapes over the next century, with social costs estimated to run as high as $115 billion.

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It's a little early for the April Fools issue of the LA Times, so they're apparently serious about blaming rapes and murders on an imperceptible temperature change of one degree per century, while ignoring all other factors, like fatherlessness, godlessness, inadequate prison space, and perpetual violence in movies and television.  If the relationship between crime and temperature were as close as the newspaper insists, there would be no violent crime in the winter, or at night.

Science Linking Drought to Global Warming Remains Matter of Dispute.  In delivering aid to drought-stricken California last week, President Obama and his aides cited the state as an example of what could be in store for much of the rest of the country as human-caused climate change intensifies.  But in doing so, they were pushing at the boundaries of scientific knowledge about the relationship between climate change and drought.  While a trend of increasing drought that may be linked to global warming has been documented in some regions, including parts of the Mediterranean and in the Southwestern United States, there is no scientific consensus yet that it is a worldwide phenomenon.  Nor is there definitive evidence that it is causing California's problems.

California's Drought Isn't Due To Global Warming, But Politics.  President Obama visited California's drought-hit Central Valley Friday, offering handouts and blaming global warming.  But the state's water shortage is due to the left's refusal to deal with the state's water needs.

Agriculture chief says climate change already hurting agriculture, unveils new 'climate hubs'.  Climate change is already hurting American farmers and rural residents, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said today [2/5/2014], warning that the U.S. would regret any failure to adapt and prepare for shifting weather realities.

U.S. to launch 'climate hubs' to help farmers face climate change.  President Barack Obama's administration will announce on Wednesday [2/5/2014] the formation of seven "climate hubs" to help farmers and rural communities adapt to extreme weather conditions and other effects of climate change, a White House official said.  The hubs will act as information centers and aim to help farmers and ranchers handle risks, including fires, pests, floods and droughts, that are exacerbated by global warming.

Don't Blame Climate Change for the California Drought.  Of all the media-savvy decisions that our friends in the alarmists' camp have made in recent years, the finest was to change their branding.  "Global warming" is a clear hypothesis, subject to investigation and to criticism; "Global cooling," likewise.  But "climate change"?  Now that is beautifully and efficaciously ambiguous — less an ironclad prediction and more an ersatz Rorschach test onto which anything and everything can be projected.

Obama, the Ingrate.  The December jobs report was truly awful, with 74,000 non-farm jobs created and the labor-force participation rate at a 35-year low.  Liberals — the same bunch who insist that the climate is warming at an alarming rate — were quick to point to cold weather as a factor discouraging job-creation.

Climate Change: Don't Blame Man For California's Drought.  California is enduring a historic drought.  Naturally some are blaming it on man-made global warming.  Are they right?  Probably not.  This isn't the first time the Golden State has gone dry.

Is global warming to blame for polar vortex?  Global warming may be contributing to the "polar vortex" causing frigid temperatures across most of the nation on Monday [1/6/2014], according to some climate change researchers.  While it seems counter-intuitive, the research argues that plunging temperatures could come from changes in the jet stream caused by climate change.

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If that were true, and it isn't, there would be a proportionally intense heat wave in the southern hemisphere at the same time.  Otherwise, where is all the "global warmth" going?  "Polar vortex" is just another catch phrase designed to fool the poorly educated masses a little longer.

Yes, we have no bananas, thanks to climate change.  We hear that there is looming banana crisis in Costa Rica — the world's 2nd leading exporter of the fruit — as this year's crop is being threatened by an infestation of mealybugs, scale insects, and fungal infection. [...] It must be climate change, of course!

Senator: Sports Stadiums 'at Risk from... Sea-Level Rise Effects of Climate Change'.  Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) warns sports stadiums are at risk from the "sea level rise effects of climate change," and that climate change specifically threatens hockey and skiing.  "We see significant sports facilities, the palaces of — of sport that are at risk from the storm, climate, sea-level rise effects of climate change," Sen. Whitehouse said today following a closed-door climate discussion with executives from the NFL, NHL and NBA.

The Midwest Tornadoes Weren't Caused By Global Warming.  Entire neighborhood blocks are gone, trees have been torn out by their roots, hundreds of thousands have no power and stunned survivors try to slog through the recovery and restoration of their lives.  Making this tragedy even worse are alarmists who try to score political points on the lost and devastated lives.

Climate Con Artists Exploit Typhoon Haiyan.  The United Nations climate chief blames the Philippines devastation on climate change, ignoring the historical record that 33 of the 35 most devastating storms occurred with CO2 below current levels. [...] There have been 35 cyclones in the last 800 years that have killed more than 10,000 people.  Thirty-three occurred with CO2 below 350 PPM.  The deadliest one in 1970 was blamed on global cooling at the time, says [Steve] Goddard.

Executive Order Ignores Climate Reality.  President Obama is "preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change," by his new executive order issued Friday [11/1/2013]. [...] It is apparent that neither Obama nor the Sierra Club has been monitoring data from the president's own National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  The executive order first cites "an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures."  This is a false assertion in view of records from NOAA and the U.S. Historical Climatology Network.

Al Gore Throws Another Climate Lie On The Barbie.  Bushfires have been part of Australian life for centuries, long before the Industrial Revolution and the sale of the first SUV.  Since the 1851 fires, there've been the 1898 fires in Victoria, which consumed 2,000 buildings, fires in Victoria in 1938 that killed 71 and destroyed 3,700 buildings, and the Ash Wednesday fires in the early 1980s that left 71 dead in the state of South Australia.  Australia has been battling another round of massive bushfires west of Sydney for more than a week now, fires not unlike those that have occurred throughout its history.

Climate change said [to be the] driving force behind larger, more extreme wildfires.  The researchers analyzed current and future climate patterns and their effect on the spread of fire in a mountainous region that includes Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, a university release said Thursday.

The Editor asks...
How do you research future climate patterns?

Goofed Skyscraper Architect Rafael Vinoly Blames Climate Change For Building Design Woes!  The now half-constructed 37-story Walkie Talkie glass skyscraper in London was given a special concave shape by its architect, Rafael Vinoly. [...] Vinoly's sorrowful attempt to dodge responsibility is typical today.  Nobody is ever responsible for big screw-ups or gross incompetence anymore.  Now it's always climate change.

Breaking News! Seventh First Climate Refugees Discovered!  BBC, your climate reporting is pathetic.  Doesn't anyone there think to check up on some dewy-eyed reporter gushing on about the tragic fate of the latest batch of pseudo-refugees?  Missing the facts in this story would have been understandable a decade ago, but in 2013, you guys are a running joke.

Climate change will [cause] frequent and severe heatwaves over the next 30 years, experts warn.  They say there will be a 'several-fold' increase in heatwaves up to 2040, regardless of how much carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere, but future efforts to slash pollution could stem the rise in extreme heat events later on in the century.

The Editor says...
Once again, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.  And how do they know what will happen over the next 30 years when they can't forecast the weather two weeks from now?

White House blames floods, wildfires, power outages on climate change.  Building a case for spending as much as $1 trillion to reinforce the nation's electric grid, the Obama administration on Monday [8/12/2013] said that climate change is causing floods, storms and even wildfires that threaten the country's electricity.

Climate change is making poison ivy grow bigger and badder.  Climate change is making poison ivy grow faster, bigger and meaner.  Rising atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and higher temperatures are to poison ivy what garbage is for rats, dormant water is for mosquitoes and road kill is to buzzards.

The Editor says...
Right away you can tell the article above is bogus, since the writer blames "higher temperatures" for the poison ivy heyday, when in reality there are no higher temperatures.  The writer apparently believes conditions will improve (or they already have) for poison ivy, without a beneficial effect on corn, soybeans, wheat, hay, carrots, other crops.

Rise in violence 'linked to climate change'.  Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests.  US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war.  The team says with the current projected levels of climate change, the world is likely to become a more violent place.

Global Warming Makes People Mean!  Even the Greenies will admit there hasn't been any rise in global temperatures in at least [...] seventeen years.  You might be interested to know that violent crime — right here in the good ole US of A — has been dropping for at least a couple of decades now.  Somehow, that doesn't seem to add a whole lot of credence to the "global warming - high crime" theory, now does it?

Global Warming Sparks Fistfights and War, Researchers Say.  Climate change will probably trigger more human conflict, according to an article in the journal Science.  An examination of 60 separate studies, including one stretching back to 10,000 B.C., found that individuals, groups and nations are "substantially" more likely to become involved in physical conflict in hot weather and heavy rain.

Burning Man.  About a month ago, a wildfire ravaged about 28,000 acres over the mountains around Mount Charleston, Nevada, leaving burn marks and charred land 35 miles northwest of Las Vegas.  The fire, declared a major disaster by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, forced the evacuation of over 500 people, threatened over 500 structures, and was rated the nation's number one wildfire priority on July 7.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wasted no time blaming the fire's devastation on global warming.

Climate change will disrupt energy supplies, DOE warns.  U.S. energy supplies will likely face more severe disruptions because of climate change and extreme weather, which have already caused blackouts and lowered production at power plants, a government report warned Thursday [7/11/2013].  What's driving these vulnerabilities?  Rising temperatures, up 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit in the last century, and the resulting sea level rise, which are accompanied by drought, heat waves, storms and wildfires, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The White House state climate impact report claims there are 31 counties in Hawaii, when there are actually five.
The White House releases a laughable state by state climate impact report.  [Scroll down]  Really, "carbon pollution" causes asthma and Lyme disease?  This is the best they can do?  I don't know of any credible study (or incredible for that matter) that suggests large scale impacts of asthma and Lyme disease for California.  And look at the numbers, compared to the most recent census data.  Infoplease says the 2010 resident population of California is:  37,253,956 people.  126 cases of Lyme disease in the state.  That's 0.000338% of the population.

American Geophysical Union Scraps Science, Now Faith Based.  If you realize that the story is not really about global warming, but rather about changing the composition of the atmosphere, it becomes easy to understand why the believers are not disturbed by the fact that global warming, as measured by surface temperature, stopped 16 years ago.  They easily find other scientific theories to buttress their faith.  They ignore or discredit any science that challenges their faith.  They tell us that if we don't stop adding carbon dioxide to the air, we will have extreme weather and the oceans will become acidified.  The polar bears will die.  The wine will lose its flavor.  We will catch exotic diseases.  If one theory of doom is refuted, or becomes boring, there are plenty of others to take its place.

With warming seas, lobsters become an abundant bargain.  There is good news for consumers, but bad for struggling lobstermen:  Prices for the delicacy are cheap again this season, and could stay that way.  Massachusetts lobstermen were paid about $3.74 per pound last week, just four cents more than a year ago, when prices hit a record low.

The Editor says...
How much warmer is the ocean?  A few thousandths of a degree?  Can the lobsters — who live on the ocean floor — tell the difference?  Maybe lobsters are abundant because demand is down.

Dem Senator Uses Moore, OK Tragedy to Berate Republicans on Global Warming.  They're still digging dead children from the debris and Democrats are already playing politics.

Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming.  While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming.  Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters.

Dem. Senator Blames Tornado on Republicans.  On Monday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used the devastating Oklahoma tornado as an excuse to bash Republicans for denying global warming and implied Republicans were responsible for actually allowing the destructive natural disaster to occur.

Senator Blames Okla. Tornado On Climate Change, GOP.  Despite no evidence that devastating tornadoes have increased in frequency or intensity due to fossil fuel use, another warm-monger blames the Moore, Okla., disaster on GOP "polluters and deniers."  Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., thought the devastation of Moore was a crisis that should not be wasted as he took to the Senate floor Monday [5/20/2013] to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming (known by its acronym, AGW).

The next day...
Democratic senator apologizes for citing Okla. tornadoes in climate change speech.  Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has apologized for remarks Monday in which he linked Oklahoma "cyclones" to climate change while berating Republicans for their stance on the issue — around the time a massive tornado killed dozens in that state.

'Climate change may reduce water availability, damage agriculture in Jordan'.  Climate change scenarios indicate that Jordan and the Middle East could suffer from reduced agricultural productivity and water availability among other negative impacts, according to an official report issued on Tuesday [5/14/2013].  Prepared by the Ministry of Environment in cooperation with the National Energy Research Centre and the UN Development Programme, the 2013-2020 Jordan Climate Change Policy predicted that climate change will have serious implications on the country's efforts to eradicate poverty and realise sustainable development for current and future generations.

Stubbed Toe? Blame Global Warming.  At Via Meadia, we think there really is such a thing as climate change, but we also believe that there are plenty of emotionally unbalanced greens whose unrealistic climate alarmism gets in the way of thoughtful policy debate.  To listen to the alarmists, floods, fires, droughts, hurricanes and blizzards are all the product of global warming.  But, as this report shows, things aren't that simple.

Dem resolution warns climate change could push women to 'transactional sex'.  Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to "transactional sex" for survival.  The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other Democrats, says the results of climate change include drought and reduced agricultural output.  It says these changes can be particularly harmful for women.

The most bizarre prediction of global warming doom ever.  When apocalyptic religious cults like Warmism fail the reality test, their devotees get desperate and unintentionally start producing self-parodies.  The mass slow-mo mental implosion can be hilarious.  We have just such an instance involving a group of House Democrats.  The victim mentality is leaping to the rescue for the cause of global warming.

Baby, It's Warm Outside.  Is "climate change" corrupting the morals of women around the world?  That's a question nobody is asking if ever there was one, yet a dozen left-wing congressmen, led by Rep. Barbara Lee of California, are answering in the affirmative.

Climate change will make flights bumpier, study says.  In the future, white-knuckle fliers may be able to blame those brutally bumpy flights over the Atlantic Ocean on greenhouse gases.

Democrats: No VT Skiing, Maryland Destroyed If Global Warming Not Addressed.  A group of House Democrats labeling themselves the Safe Climate Caucus held a press conference today [2/15/2013] to warn that if Congress does not address global warming, the country could face dire consequences, including detrimental effects to California wines and an end to Vermont skiing.  One Democratic representative even worried that global warming could destroy the state of Maryland.

Parody or Does She Believe It? CNN Anchor Blames Asteroid on Global Warming.  CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon [2/9/2013] if an approaching asteroid, which will pass by Earth on February 15, "is an example of, perhaps, global warming?"

Leading Warmists: All Weather Events Can Be Blamed On Man-Induced Climate Change.  Hot, cold, wet, dry, windy, not windy, snowy, not snowy, icy, sleet, hurricanes, no hurricanes, you name it, Mankind is responsible.

Christie Hefner: Climate change a factor in Chicago's murder rate.  On Wednesday's [1/30/2013] broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the Center for American Progress' Christie Hefner said that Chicago's sky-high murder rate could be blamed — at least in part — on climate change.

Climate News: Only 'Hobbit-Sized Humans' Capable of Surviving Global Warming.  The joint editor of the Climate News Network is warning that in as little as two centuries global warming will lead to "mass extinction," which may be good news for residents of "The Shire."  "Hobbit-sized humans, able to exist on less nourishing food, will have the best chance of survival in a warmer world, scientists say," said Paul Brown, a journalist and author, in an article entitled, "Mass extinction forecast with 6[°]C temperature rise," published on Jan. 7.

Climate Change May Increase Volcanic Eruptions.  The rapid rise in sea levels could cause a dramatic increase in volcanic eruptions, according to a new study.  The study, published in the journal Geology, found that during periods of rapid climate change over the last million years, the rapid melting of continental glaciers and the resulting sea-level rise eventually increased volcanic eruptions as much as fold. [sic]

Global Warming Might Spur Earthquakes and Volcanoes.  Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides are some of the additional catastrophes that climate change and its rising sea levels and melting glaciers could bring, a geologist says.

Extreme weather and superstition:  Superstorm Sandy.  Parching drought across North America.  A scorching midsummer heat wave in the Midwest.  All these weather extremes are telltale signs that CO2 causes climate change, according to global warmists. [...] The link between extreme weather and global warming has as much scientific basis as the pagan rite of human sacrifice to ensure a good harvest.

UN climate change chief getting frustrated with United States.  Christiana Figueres, who leads the United Nations negotiations to get governments to reduce carbon emissions in the world, regards Hurricane Sandy as "yet another wake-up call" for Americans to get on board with her climate change policy.

The Coming Environmental Battles.  Hurricane Sandy presented another pretext for regulating and taxing hydrocarbons.  No respectable climatologist or meteorologist believes atmospheric carbon dioxide conjured up the destructive storm, but climate alarmism has always been about political science, not real science.

Climate change and global warming may be affecting N.J. public water sources.  The West Amwell reservoir feeds the Lambertville public water system.  Algae blooms are common in shallow reservoirs, said company spokesman Steve Goudsmith, but this was the first time a large bloom appeared in this body of water, which is in a wooded area.

The Editor says...
I suppose the hurricane that came ashore two weeks ago has nothing to do with it.

Coral in a Warming World:  Causes for Optimism.  [Scroll down]  The life strategy of many corals, particularly the light and delicate 'plate' or 'staghorn' corals, is to live fast and probably die young.  They produce a lightweight calcium carbonate skeleton, which means that they will probably be obliterated by a tropical cyclone within 20 years.  They are also highly prone to being eaten by crown-of-thorns starfish.  As it happens, the return incidence for bleaching events and cyclones is often roughly the same and it is probably no coincidence that these physically delicate and easily damaged corals are the most susceptible to bleaching, and have a life expectancy of just a couple of decades. [...] They have a long-term strategy, and quick death by bleaching is not part of it.  Few other organisms have this type of adaptability to changing temperatures.  Whereas many organisms take generations to alter their genetic make-up, corals can adapt to changing temperatures in a few weeks, simply by switching zooxanthellae during bleaching.  Corals thus have a remarkable, almost unique, ability to deal with changing climates.  Are they the 'canary in the coal mine', or one of the toughest organisms on earth, or somewhere in between?

Polar bears and coral reefs are doing just fine.  Corals and polar bears are two very different kinds of animals in all ways but one: climate alarmists love to claim they are particularly threatened by the modest warming that has occurred since the end of the Little Ice Age.  Those claims are false.  For coral reefs, changes in ocean pH and temperature can cause bleaching, and sometimes death.  Therefore, a change over time in both of those variables due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) supposedly will lead to mass elimination of corals around the world.  It is true that sudden changes in temperature and other water conditions can cause bleaching, which occurs when the symbiotic algae that gives coral structures their color is killed or jettisons itself.  However, what is not true is that this phenomenon always or even usually leads to coral death.  In reality, decades of research have shown that corals often bounce back from these events, including in cases where scientists had previously labeled the reef as a total loss.

Voices Of CO2 Doom Dishonestly Alarm Unthinking Worshippers with Correlations, While Downplaying Proven Causations.  Climate scientists have been funded to find how rising atmospheric CO2 is affecting our climate and global ecosystems.  As a result of their predisposed belief in "demon CO2", simple correlations are misleadingly promoted as causation by both researchers and click-bait media.  For example, lowering of ocean surface pH is blamed on a correlation with rising CO2.  However, it is well established other factors also lower surface pH.  Climate alarmists use that correlation to scare the public, arguing that any continued burning of fossil fuels will cause pH to fall with catastrophic consequences for marine ecosystems.  They simply assume surface pH will continue to fall as growing atmospheric CO2 pumps more CO2 into surface waters.  But the data shows that has not always been the case.

The fake end of the world.  Then climate activists will tell us that the oceans are becoming more acidic because when CO2 dissolves in fresh water, it becomes more acidic, which will dissolve seashells and coral reefs and fishes bones and the coccoliths of phytoplankton.  There are at least two problems with that argument.  One is that shellfish live quite happily, without their shells dissolving, in acidic river estuaries.  It is clear they have biological mechanisms, mostly using mucus, to control acidity where they're depositing limestone crystals.  The other problem with the argument is that adding CO2 to seawater has a very different effect from adding it to fresh water.  When a weak acid is added to a strong base (alkaline material), or when a weak base is added to a strong acid, the result is what chemists call a buffer solution.  The acidity (or alkalinity) changes very little.  Much less than it would in pure water.  Oceans contain enormous amounts of sodium bicarbonate, more commonly called baking soda.  It's a strong base, but not as strong a base as the lye that is the primary ingredient of Drano.  When CO2 dissolves in seawater, the acidity of the oceans changes very little.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef Defies Climate Doomsayers with Record Coral Comeback.  Australia's Great Barrier Reef is doing just fine with vast sections defying every forecast of impending doom made by climate catastrophists over the past 30 years, a report Thursday outlines.  Coral cover on two-thirds of the iconic reef, which is seen as a bellwether of ocean health, has reached its highest level since records began 36 years ago, according to marine scientists monitoring the ecosystem.

Great Barrier Reef experiencing 'record high' levels of coral coverage.  Former JCU Marine Physicist Peter Ridd says the Great Barrier Reef is now experiencing "record high coral cover".  "This is data that's been accumulated over a little while now and it shows ... it's actually at record high coral cover," he told Sky News Australia.  "We've got more coral on the Great Barrier Reef now than we did when records began in 1985.  "We've got twice as much coral as we had after huge cyclones went through the reef in about 2011 and 2012, and this record-high coral cover is despite supposedly having three catastrophic unprecedented bleaching events in just the last five years.  [Video clip]

UNESCO Keeps Great Barrier Reef Off 'In Danger' List After Pushback From Australia.  The Great Barrier Reef will not be added to a list of World Heritage Sites that are "in danger" after a UN panel on Friday agreed to defer a vote until 2022 amid pushback from Australia.  The UNESCO World Heritage Committee was held virtually in the Chinese city of Fuzhou.  The committee members agreed to an amendment that would require Australia to produce an updated report on the state of the reef by February 2022 when a vote could follow on whether to classify the site as in danger.  The Australian government has been disputing the earlier recommendation by the China-chaired committee that the reef should be classified as "in danger," arguing that it was a politically motivated decision.  Chinese vice education minister Tian Xuejun dismissed the claims by Australian politicians and said the country should focus on "earnestly fulfilling the duty" of protecting the Great Barrier Reef instead of making "groundless accusations."

[The] Great Barrier Reef [is] Not In Danger.  Decades of activist science by Australian scientists has now led to the Great Barrier Reef being possibly labelled as "In Danger" by the Chinese run UN World Heritage Committee.  Statements from the Reef's scientific watchdogs, AIMS and the GBRMPA, have led to this catastrophic situation. [...] There is, however, a good dataset that indicates that these statements are exaggerated.  Each year since 1986, AIMS has run surveys on the 11 GBR sectors that measure Crown of Thorn infestation (COTS) and percent cover of Hard Coral.  These surveys have been described as having "good quality-control systems" by Peter Ridd.  These 11 sectors contain 135 separate reefs.  Not all these reefs are surveyed each year.  This could be a source of some inaccuracy as some reefs naturally have less cover than others.

Peter Ridd:  It's the science that's rotten, not the Great Barrier Reef.  The International Union for Conservation of Nature has released its latest report on the state of the Great Barrier Reef.  It has turned up the volume by one notch, claiming the threat to the reef has gone from "significant concern" to "critical".  It blames climate change, agricultural pollution, coastal development, industry, mining, shipping, overfishing, disease, problematic native species, coal dust — you name it, it is killing the reef.  But the report is just a rehash of old, mostly wrong or misleading information produced by generally untrustworthy scientific institutions with an activist agenda and no commitment to quality assurance.  It is remarkable that the world has been convinced that one of its most pristine ecosystems is on its last legs.  Part of the problem is that, being underwater and a long way from the coast, very few people visit the reef.  The truth is hidden.  Those of us in North Queensland living adjacent to the reef, and tourists from elsewhere, can report the water is iridescent clear blue and totally unpolluted.  The fish and coral are fabulous.

11 Empty Climate Claims.  Claim [#10]: Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are causing ocean acidification, which is catastrophically harming marine life.  Fact:  When life is considered, ocean acidification is often found to be a non-problem, or even a benefit.

Science, Political Correctness and the Great Barrier Reef.  The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, 2,300 km (1,400 miles) long and visible from outer space.  Labeled by CNN as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the reef is a constant delight to tourists, who can view the colorful corals from a glass-bottomed boat or by snorkeling or scuba diving.  Rising temperatures, especially during the prolonged El Niño of 2016-17, have severely damaged portions of the Great Barrier Reef — so much so that the reef has become the poster child for global warming.  Corals are susceptible to overheating and undergo bleaching when the water gets too hot, losing their vibrant colors.  But exactly how much of the Great Barrier Reef has been affected, and how quickly it's likely to recover, are controversial issues among reef researchers.

Surprise! The Great Barrier Reef is Not Dying from Global Warming.  It is tough for scientists to maintain the fiction that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is broken, when the government minister responsible for the reef goes and has a look for herself.

Peter Ridd:  The Great Barrier Reef has about the same amount of coral as in 1985.  [Peter Ridd] explains that what's happening on the Great Barrier Reef with coral bleaching is a normal cycle.  He tells his story of being censured at James Cook university, but admits the state of free speech at universities in Australia is non-existent — even after his win.  They discuss how we might reform science with audits (universities are almost a lost cause).  We'll probably never know how many scientists think similar thoughts to Peter Ridd.  We know that they'll need a $250,000 legal fund if they say so.  [Video clip]

Great Barrier Reef teeters towards coal-fired extinction.  Australia's government has dismissed grim warnings by a panel of leading scientists that the Great Barrier Reef will be doomed unless coal-fired power plants are phased out, insisting it is more important to keep electricity prices low for consumers.  The world's greatest marine habitat is already at risk from global warming, and faces virtual extinction unless temperature increases are halted at 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the latest report by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states.

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A month from now I'll be able to put up a link to an article from a more rational group of scientists who will explain all the reasons this is another false alarm.  In the meantime, I can pick it apart pretty well myself:  One would think that a temperature change of one degree per century wouldn't kill "the world's largest living organism," since it has been around for centuries already.  As for the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, that's gradual, too.  And the reef is underwater.  The people who are so alarmed about this reef are the same people who preach "survival of the fittest" in the public schools.  Coal has been used as fuel for centuries — including the many centuries before anyone had ever heard of a coral reef.

World's Second Largest Coral Reef Has Just Been Removed From Endangered List.  After being danger-listed in 2009, the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (BBRRS) was removed from the UNESCO World Heritage Center list of "World Heritage in Danger" last month.  The decision was made by the World Heritage Committee during their 42nd annual meeting, held in Manama, Bahrain.

Could sunscreen be destroying our coral reefs?  Hawaii lawmakers say yes.  Hawaii is set to become the first state to ban the sale of sunscreens containing chemicals believed to be harmful to the environment.  State lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday [5/1/2018] that prohibits the sale and distribution of over-the-counter sunscreens containing oxybenzone or octinoxate, two chemicals that have been found to "cause genetic damage to coral and other marine organisms."  "These chemicals have also been shown to degrade corals' resiliency and ability to adjust to climate change factors and inhibit recruitment of new corals," the bill reads.

The Editor says...
Consider for a moment the volume of the ocean, compared to the total volume of all the sunscreen that has ever been applied on the beach.  Consider also how far from the nearest coral reef the average beach visitor is.  Then think about how many months it would take for the sunscreen to drift from the beach-goer to the coral reef, and what infinitesimal fraction of the sunscreen would remain after the trip.  Sunscreen chemicals would have to be really toxic to have any effect on anything after such a voyage.  And if they were so toxic, they wouldn't be available in this country.

Global Warming and Suckers.  As some of my readers may know, I am actually rather attentive to environmental concerns. [...] So for me the fanaticism of Global Warming proponents is particularly irritating.  Last night, my wife was watching a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef, and the mass coral bleaching event that happened in 2016, and the spin was obvious from the very beginning.  Cameras panned over rows of crying academics, watching the coral turn white, and then die, pieces of flotsam carrying off into the current to music that sounded like it belonged in a funeral.  Marine Biologists and Climatologists (all on government payrolls) went on a series of adventures collecting the raw camera footage of dead and dying coral.  It was explained to the viewer that even a 2C degree shift in water temperatures was sufficient to kill most of the Great Barrier Reef, and if we did not act soon, it would surely die.  The rhetoric in the media was particularly extreme.  The reef was declared "dead" in scare quotes, even though most of the reef survived the event intact. [...] The hole in this logic was immediately apparent to me.  If a 2C shift in temperature was sufficient to wipe out the reef, how has this 18 million year old reef system (the current iteration is approximately 8000 years old) survived so long?

How NOAA and Bad Modeling Invented an "Ocean Acidification" Icon.  The sea butterfly joins the parade of icons like polar bears, penguins, pika, mangroves and Parmesan's butterflies where the effects of natural climate variability or direct human interference are obscured and falsely promoted as catastrophic climate change.

Ocean Acidification:  This Scam Exposed.  Of all the climate "science" scams I've helped expose, about the worst has got to be Ocean Acidification.  The very name is a lie:  no our oceans are not turning acid; still less are our corals and marine life under any threat of dissolving in what the New York Times once hysterically described as "our deadened, carbon-soaked seas".  Yet still this junk-science scare story refuses to lie down and die because there are so many vested interests determined to prop it up.

Great Barrier Reef: 5% bleached, not 93% says new report "discrepancy phenomenal".  In a nutshell: a government funded group finds some bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef, and repackages the stats to come up with the apocalyptic statistic that only 7% of the reef is not bleached!  The SMH reported that "93% of the corals" are damaged.  The reef is 2,000 kilometers long.  Did anyone really think about these headlines?  Then in a development that "no one" could see coming, local tourism is damaged, potentially costing a lot of jobs.  "And the loss of these tourists could cost our tourism industry a whopping $1 billion a year, a report out today by The Australia Institute warned."  This inspires local dive operators (who possibly know what the reef looks like) to pay for a two week expedition to survey 28 sites.  They find about 5% damage and describe the difference as phenomenal.  Indeed, they say the reef is pretty much just like it was 20 years ago when they last did a survey.

Rebutting Climate Alarmism with Simple Facts.  [Scroll down]  [A]tmospheric CO2 levels have typically ranged far higher throughout the earth's history, yet the oceans never became acidic.  In fact, if they had, submarine fossil layers would have readily dissolved.  Claims of the ocean "becoming acidic" are actually a misrepresentation of variations in the ocean's pH scale.  Seawater has typically measured roughly 8.18 on the pH scale.  Recent, pH levels of 8.10 have been noted, which would mean slightly less alkaline oceans.  But it's misleading to say that the oceans are "becoming acidic," particularly when ocean pH often varies greatly, based on season and location.

Science Is Turning Back To The Dark Ages.  According to a new study, scientists' claims that coral reefs are doomed by ocean acidification are overplayed.  An "inherent bias" in scientific journals, says the editor of ICES Journal of Marine Science, has excluded research showing marine creatures are not being damaged.  Instead, he says, many studies have used flawed methods by subjecting such creatures to sudden increases in carbon dioxide that would never happen in real life.  No surprises there.  The claim that CO2 emissions are acidifying the oceans is a favourite of climate-change alarmists.  Man-made global warming theory has been propped up by studies that many scientists have dismissed as methodologically flawed, ideologically bent or even fraudulent.

Microsoft co-founders $162m yacht wrecks coral reef.  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has spent millions on ocean conservation and backed programs to save endangered coral, but those reefs had better not get in the way of his 300-foot megayacht.  Allen's $162 million Tatoosh destroyed 13,800 square feet of coral reef in the Cayman Islands' protected replenishment zone.  Local officials said the massive anchor and chain wiped out most of the coral in the area on the western coast of Grand Cayman on Jan. 14.  "Initial figures place the damaged area at 1,200 square meters ... with 80 percent of the coral within that area destroyed," according to the Cayman Department of Environment.

Experts Can't Confirm Current Ocean Acidification Damage.  With the pause in global temperature rise continuing well into its 18th year, polar bear populations and Arctic and Antarctic ice levels on the increase, and hurricane land strikes at historic lows, the list of horribles climate alarmists can trot out to scare the public is dwindling.  Thus it didn't surprise me at all to see one of the leading mainstream media voices of climate hysteria, The New York Times, run a nearly 1,300-word commentary misleadingly titled, "Our Deadened, Carbon-Soaked Seas."  The story told was not new.  The authors — Richard W. Spinrad, chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Ian Boyd, chief scientific advisor to the British government's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) — claim oceans are acidifying as they soak up human carbon dioxide emissions, threatening numerous ocean species including oysters, corals, and even clownfish.

Climate Update: Ocean Death Exaggerated?  This week's New Scientist magazine covers a new study published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that calls into doubt the familiar thesis that ocean acidification from human CO2 emissions will kill coral reefs.

Oceans Not Dying After All.  One of the leading talking points of the climatistas is that we're going to turn to oceans into giant acid vats that will melt your toes off if we don't turn over our car keys to Al Gore.  Well, Science magazine this week reports a whole lot of cold salt water on the theory.

Where is All the CO2 Going?  CO2 gas can be absorbed by the oceans as a dissolved gas, much like CO2 is absorbed in carbonated soda.  CO2 can also be stored in water by a chemical reaction.  In the ocean, a molecule of CO2 can come apart and combine with the water.  The CO2 then exists as carbonate (CO3) ions or bicarbonate (HCO3) ions.  These different ways of storing carbon can dynamically change, one to the other, the proportions depending on the salinity (or alkalinity) of the water.  Potentially the oceans are a huge sink for CO2 and they could eventually absorb all the human CO2 emissions.  The key is "eventually."

Evidence discovered that 'ocean acidification' scare may be as fraudulent as 'global warming'.  A startling discovery by a graduate student has uncovered what looks like a fraud remarkably parallel to the infamous "Hockey stick" graph of Michael Mann that purported to show global temperatures skyrocketing when atmospheric CO2 rose, but only did so because "hide the decline" was the operating principle in selecting data.  For those who have not been keeping up with the alarmist follies, alleged ocean acidification has joined and supplemented the rapidly-fading alleged global warming threat as an urgent reason to stop emitting CO2, and hand money and power over to regulators who would control the production of energy, the very basis of modern life.

Cayman Islands Coral Reefs See Dramatic Comeback.  In a stunning example of the natural world's remarkable ability to bounce back from ecological decline, the coral reefs surrounding Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean Sea — all but written off as dead by some marine scientists a decade ago — are rapidly regaining their health.  Bleaching, blamed by global warming activists on warmer ocean water, and the spread of infectious disease took a heavy toll on the reefs around the turn of the century.  From 1999 to 2004, live coral cover declined by more than 40 percent.  But a 13-year study conducted by the University of Florida and Caribbean researchers and released in November 2013 found the amount of live coral on the reefs, the density of young colonies critical to the reefs' future health, and the overall size of corals have returned to 1999 levels.

Remote reefs can be tougher than they look.  Isolated coral reefs can recover from catastrophic damage as effectively as those with nearby undisturbed neighbours, a long-term study by marine biologists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) has shown.  Scott Reef, a remote coral system in the Indian Ocean, has largely recovered from a catastrophic mass bleaching event in 1998, according to the study published in Science.

Researchers find corals in Northern Australia healed themselves in just 12 years.  A coral reef in Northern Australia severely damaged by warming seas has managed to completely heal itself in just 12 years, stunned researchers have found.  The team found that being left alone to breed on its own was key.

Forget the Doom: Coral Reefs Will Bloom.  A widespread belief that the world's coral reefs face a calamitous future due to climate change is proving less resilient than the natural wonders themselves.  Latest research findings blow away claim that reefs are doomed due to rising ocean acidification caused by the higher take-up of carbon dioxide in the seas.

Misguided PBS spreads acid ocean alarm.  Scientists, environmental groups, and the United Nations promote the fear of ocean acidification.  According to claims, man-made emissions of carbon dioxide are absorbed by the oceans and converted into carbonic acid, thereby changing the chemical balance of the oceans.  The basic concept of acidification is correct, but hugely exaggerated.

NOAAgate: how 'ocean acidification' could turn out to be the biggest con since Michael Mann's Hockey Stick.  Christmas has come a couple of days early for climate sceptics, in what may well prove to be one of the biggest blows to the Global Warming religion since Climategate.  This time the pillar of green faith which has been rudely dismantled by sceptical investigators is an alleged phenomenon known as "ocean acidification."  For years this has been touted by environmentalists as possibly the greatest threat to the planet after "global warming."

Now scientists say wearing jeans is bad for the environment.  They might be an essential piece of everyday clothing, but scientists now say that even a simple pair of jeans could be bad for the environment.  Wearing a pair of fast fashion jeans just once creates 2.5kg of CO2, the equivalent of driving a petrol car 6.4 miles.  Scientists from the Guangdong University of Technology analysed the life cycle of a pair of Levi's jeans from growing the cotton to their eventual disposal.

The Editor says...
[#1] China has an 1,100-gigawatt fleet of coal-fired power plants [*] with more under construction, and they're telling you not to wear jeans because there's the CO2 problem.  [#2] Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.  CO2 emissions are not something that needs to be avoided; and even if CO2 were a problem, lack of clothing would be a bigger problem.

Don't Worry about Farming's Contribution to Global Warming.  For decades the primary way environmentalists concerned about manmade global warming have advocated to slow it has been to reduce human emissions of the "greenhouse gas" carbon dioxide (mainly from burning coal, oil, and natural gas for energy).  Lately they have focused increasingly on contributions from two other "greenhouse gases," primarily from agriculture — methane (CH4) from livestock flatulence, and nitrous oxide (N2O) from chemical fertilizers.  Why?  Because CH4's forcing effect (the amount of infrared radiation, or heat, each molecule in the atmosphere impedes from escaping from Earth's surface to space, thus warming the surface) is 30 times, and N2O's 230 times, that of CO2, as illustrated here:  [Chart]  Why?  Because almost all the outgoing longwave radiation (infrared) in the frequency bands CO2 can absorb has already been absorbed — by both CO2 and water vapor (H2O) — while far less in the bands CH4 and N2O can absorb has already been absorbed.  So we say CO2's bands are nearly "saturated," while CH4's and N2O's are nearly "transparent."  So, it looks like we should be much more concerned about N2O than about CO2 or even CH4.  Or should we?

"Growing your own vegetables is bad for the planet".  Have you ever made a prediction and wished you'd recorded it?  Last week, in a phone conversation with a family member, they happened to mention growing their own vegetables, and I said in reply "Enjoy it while you can, they're gonna start claiming it's causing climate change soon."  Literally four days later...  [Headline]  Apparently, a new study from the University of Michigan has found that "urban gardening" is 5 (or maybe 6, they're not sure) times worse for the environment than "conventional crops".  I don't know how they calculated it, and it doesn't really matter.  If you read the bodies of the articles they even say it only applies to some vegetables in some places and it all depends on how the "infrastructure" is put together.  The details aren't the point.  The point is yet another weapon in the war on food.  More regulation, more commercialization, less freedom, all in the name of "fighting climate change".

Apparently, houseplants now contribute to climate change.  The climate-change killjoys have gone to great lengths in recent years linking practically anything and everything as a contributor to climate change.  Gas stoves?  Check.  Dishwashers?  Check.  Eating meat?  Check.  Sporting events?  Check.  Breathing?  Check, too.  Given this history, I must say I was not all that surprised when I read a recent article in the Washington Post claiming, "Indoor houseplants come with a cost to the planet."

The Absurdity of Measuring Breath for Climate Change.  In a recent study published in PLOS ONE, titled "Measurements of methane and nitrous oxide in human breath and the development of UK scale emissions," researchers have embarked on a quest that epitomizes the absurdity of current climate change discourse.  This study, focusing on the emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) from human breath, is not only a glaring example of scientific overreach but also a worrying indicator of the lengths to which climate alarmism is willing to go.  The study's objective to investigate emissions from human breath in the UK population is fundamentally flawed.  It operates under the assumption that these emissions are significant enough to warrant detailed analysis and inclusion in national greenhouse gas inventories.  This premise is laughable at best, considering the minuscule percentage these emissions contribute to the overall greenhouse gas emissions.  The methodology employed in the study is questionable.  Collecting 328 breath samples from 104 volunteers hardly constitutes a representative sample of the UK population.  Furthermore, the study's reliance on such a small sample size to draw conclusions about national-scale emissions is a classic case of over-extrapolation.

Breathing contributes to global warming — study.  Human breathing contributes to global warming, according to a study published Wednesday in PLoS One.  The authors argued that human respiration's contribution to climate change has been underestimated and merits further study.  After measuring the gas composition in the exhaled breaths of 328 study participants, the researchers concluded human breath comprises 0.05% of the UK's methane emissions and 0.1% of its nitrous oxide.  Both of those gasses "have a much higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide," the study notes.  "Exhaled human breath can contain small, elevated concentrations of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), both of which contribute to global warming," the researchers, led by atmospheric physicist Nicholas Cowan of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, wrote.  "We would urge caution in the assumption that emissions from humans are negligible."

The Editor says...
[#1] Of course the air you exhale goes into the atmosphere.  No "study" is required to prove that fact.  Whether your exhaled breath is good or bad for the earth is immaterial, because the earth was created for man, not man for the earth.  [#2] The mass of the atmosphere is about 5.15×10¹⁸ kilograms, which is on the order of about an octillion times as much as the mass of your last breath.  The word "inconsequential" fails to adequately describe your contribution to this suddenly-discovered "problem."  [#3] If this sudden revelation "merits further study," that means the powers that be want to find a way to reduce the number of people who breathe.  That could only mean one thing, and I'll leave it up to the reader to figure it out.

Is your pet killing the planet?  [Scroll down]  So, yes, I feel sad and guilty about the way we humans treat our planet, travel writers very much included.  But all is changed.  Now someone has come to my rescue, and made me feel a lot better — at least relatively.  His name is Patrick Hansen, and he's the boss of private-jet firm Luxaviation.  At a media event recently, Hansen claimed that the average private-jet customer is responsible for about the same emissions of carbon dioxide as someone who owns three medium-sized dogs.  Or just one big dog.  Is owning pets as bad for the planet as flying?  It's a startling claim, especially when you remember that Hansen is talking about a user of private jets.  The kicker is — even if you dispute the precise numbers, as some do — Hanson undoubtedly has a point.  So if you have a pet — especially a cat or a dog — you're in no position to lecture anyone about their green credentials, because your carbon pawprint is probably enormous, and pets are damaging in multiple other ways, too.

Global warming is an all-purpose excuse, much like Covid:
Is climate change [the] next excuse for not returning to [the] workplace?  Activists have often invoked climate change to justify proposals like eating insects or stopping cow burps.  But will it now be used to keep workers from returning to the office?  That's the question championed in a recent news article entitled the "Dirty downside of 'return to office': Push to end work-from-home could make climate crisis worse."  Business Insider interviewed a woman under the alias "Rachel," who told the outlet a job she voluntarily took is "forcing her" to appear in-office rather than work remotely.  This "environmental impact of her new routine," the article reads, has made her resentful.  The job requires her to commute to its Silver Spring, Maryland, office at least two days a week, purportedly 30 to 40 minutes each way.  "I get kind of furious when I drive to work and see the road choked with traffic," she told the outlet, saying it's "incredibly harmful to the environment" and that offices "generate so much waste, like paper and plastic cups and utensils."

NYC Bans Delicious Pizza for Climate Change.  There are many things on this Earth are said to be contributing to global warming; cars, planes, plastic, and apparently pizza.  New York City has ordered pizzerias that use coal and wood fired ovens to crack down their carbon emissions by 75%.  Wood and coal fired stoves are apparently one of the largest contributors to air pollution and that this is just a "common sense rule" according to NYC Department of Environmental Protection spokesman, Ted Timbers.  This regulation will require pizzeria owners to buy expensive emission control devices, with one Brooklyn owner already paying $20,000 for an air filter.  About 100 restaurants will be affected by this new rule.  These restaurants have to hire engineers or architects so that they can determine whether or not they can actually install these controlled emission devices.  If the restaurant cannot bring 75% of their carbon emissions down, they either need to bring it down by 25% through practice or provide a reason as to why they cannot install emission controls.

Plants cause global warming now.  Did you know that plants cause global warming, and as plants grow bigger, stronger, and healthier due to increased CO2 they will kill us all? [...] Now you may be under the impression that the photosynthesis of plants pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere and releases O2.  In fact, the carbon that you find in plants is pulled from the air, not the soil, which is why plants can grow in even rocky, sandy soil, or even in hydroponic gardens.  All that biomass is mainly carbon pulled out of the air.  This is why greenhouses often are enriched with extra CO2 — to stimulate plant growth.  Plants really like CO2, and greenhouses often burn natural gas to increase concentrations to between 1000 and 1200 PPM, about 3 times the atmospheric level.  The plants suck that CO2 up and spit out more O2, increasing their yields by about 40% — in other words, they sequester that CO2 by turning it into plant matter.  You would think, then, that the increase in biomass that results from rising CO2 in the atmosphere would have a beneficial effect, right?  Well yes, yes it does.  But that is not how the alarmists want you to see it.

Jane Fonda Blames Men for Climate Change:  'We Have to Arrest and Jail Those Men'.  Hollywood star Jane Fonda made the outrageous claim Friday that climate change is being caused exclusively by men, specifically white men, adding that "those men" must be arrested and jailed.  She also blamed the "patriarchy" and "racism" for global warming.  Speaking at a career retrospective at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Jane Fonda promoted her radical climate activism efforts, saying the world has "about seven, eight years" to cut fossil fuel consumption in half.

The Editor says...
Did a bunch of people go to a film festival to hear about climatology?

Will We Wake Up When We're Hungry?  John Kerry, the man who has almost perfected the art of looking down his nose at the commoners so very far beneath him, told a group of co-elitists at a recent climate summit that, in the words of a Reuters reporter, "cutting greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production is essential to the global fight against climate change."  In Kerry's own words, he claimed "we can't get to net zero, we don't get this job done, unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution."  The special presidential envoy for climate, a job he is perfectly suited for as it requires no accomplishments, only a membership in a "select group of human beings" and an enormously inflated sense of self, then confused matters by declaring that "a 2-degree future could result in another 600 million people not getting enough to eat." [...] What, then, is their solution for feeding the masses while at the same time lowering greenhouse gas emissions?  Of course — we must reduce food consumption and when eating is absolutely necessary, gobble up some bugs.  The climatistas are focused on a forced austerity.

The Next Item on the Climate Cult's 'Naughty List' Gives Away the Game.  We've seen a lot of craziness over the years from the climate change cult.  First, it was global cooling, then global warming.  Now, because they don't know what they are talking about and none of their predictions come to pass, it's the more amorphous "climate change" (although the "climate" is always changing).  They are never held accountable for being wrong, and they just move on to the next thing to push us to panic over.  It's always about how things are about to implode — if we don't commit more of our money to deal with it/give up our freedoms/turn over more control to the government. [...] The world's been supposedly about to implode for the past forty years.  Yet, somehow we're still here.  And no, Joe, "everyone" is not recognizing/accepting the mania.  We've seen them demonize fossil fuels.  We've seen them go after meat — even cow farts with their methane emissions.  But an AFP News Agency tweet about what the climate cult might be targeting next had people sit up and take notice on Sunday.  Because if anything underscored how anti-human the cult seems, this would be it.  Guess what else is bad?  Rice — that thing that most of the world survives on.

[The] Biden administration [is] considering declaring [a] 'public health emergency' to promote abortion access.  "Wokeism" is now sadly infecting the field of medicine.  Some of the madness is self-inflicted, and some is being pushed on health care providers from the outside.  Case in point:  A New York Post article states that "[e]xperts are now recommending that doctors reduce their use of certain kinds of anesthesia in order to combat the effects of climate change."  Speaking at the American Society of Anesthesiologists' annual conference recently, Dr. Mohamed Fayed, a senior anesthetist at Detroit's Henry Ford Health, opined: "Global warming is affecting our daily life more and more, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has become crucial."  He added, "No matter how small each effect is, it will add up.  As anesthesiologists, we can contribute significantly to this cause by making little changes in our daily practice — such as lowering the flow of anesthetic gas — without affecting patient care."  Might want to check with the patients before limiting their anesthetic, Doc.  And consider the fact that inhaled anesthesia accounts for no more than 0.1% of the world's carbon emissions, yet accounts for nearly 100% of patients' pain avoidance when undergoing various medical procedures.

Actress Jane Fonda Blames "Climate Crisis" on Racism, Says "Everything's Connected".  This week, actress Jane Fonda, 85, appeared on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" to promote her new movie "80 for Brady."  During the interview, Fonda expressed her belief that racism was to blame for the "climate crisis."  Fonda, along with her co-stars Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field, discussed social activism and how they got involved in it.

Climate alarmists set their sights on a new target — your dog.  My fellow Gen Xers will remember vividly that there were two existential threats growing up that could annihilate mankind: nuclear war and acid rain.  Future decades expanded the circle of bogeymen to include ozone layer degradation, bioweapons, African killer bees, SARS, financial market collapse and finally COVID, to accompany the ongoing dire threat that human activities are hurtling the globe to losing large swaths of its population from climate catastrophes.  While the level of urgency to "save the planet" has intensified from the doom-and-gloom crowd, so has the level of craziness about how to deal with their villains.  From the early warnings of "don't shower every day," to today's eugenics, the cult of the "church of climate change" has become increasingly rabid.

Cats and dogs also to blame for the climate crisis... says CNN.  A CNN article that recently made the rounds of social media suggested that Americans should henceforth purchase smaller breeds of household pets and begin feeding them an insect-based diet to help curb their deleterious effect on the climate.  As you might expect, the article drew a heavy response after CNN posted a link to it on Twitter.  The article, titled "Our pets are part of the climate problem," stated that "researchers" say dogs and cats "play a significant role in the climate crisis."

Gas-powered leaf blowers face potential Seattle ban.  Many Seattle residents' least-favorite alarm clock may be phased out as early as the beginning of 2025.  A resolution sponsored by Seattle City Councilmember Alex Pederson would phase out gas-powered leaf blower usage by the city and its contractors by January 2025, or later if necessary.  By January 2027, or later if necessary, businesses and Seattle residents would be forced to phase out their usage as well.  While many Seattleites might support the nuisance leaf blowers, city council members say this resolution would eliminate other negative effects that leaf blowers cause.

Claim: Cancer Surgery Causes Climate Change.  From the Journal of Clinical Oncology.  ["]In April 2021, President Biden pledged to drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50% relative to 2005 levels by 2030.  This ambitious agenda will inevitably require significant changes across the breadth of the United States economy, including the health care sector.  According to previous studies, the health care industry accounts for roughly 8.5% of total GHG emissions in the United States (the most in the world in per-capita and absolute terms), and in recent years, the provision of cancer care has increasingly been included in discussions about decarbonization.[... "]

Food waste becomes California's newest climate change target.  Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won't have a place in California trashcans under the nation's largest mandatory residential food waste recycling program that's set to take effect in January.  The effort is designed to keep landfills in the most populous U.S. state clear of food waste that damages the atmosphere as it decays.  When food scraps and other organic materials break down they emit methane, a greenhouse gas more potent and damaging in the short-term than carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

The Editor says...
[#1] If your garbage rots in your garden, or it rots in the landfill, what's the difference?  [#2] Rotting garbage is nothing new.  If decaying food scraps cause global warming (and they don't), the process didn't start in the last few years.  Decaying vegetation can be found all over the world.

Report: 'Unsustainable' Suburban America Contributes to Climate Change.  The iconic American suburban neighborhoods that attract families looking for safe and prosperous areas have been targeted in recent years — first from those who believe zoning is a racist tactic to keep certain people out of the neighborhoods.  And now a report from the left-leaning Brooking Institute is claiming that the "unsustainable" nature of the suburbs means they must be transformed in the name of preventing climate change.  The Brooking Institute report touts President Joe Biden's "ambitious and necessary" goal to reduce greenhouse gas emission to 50 percent of the amount emitted in 2005 by 2030, with even bigger reductions by 2050.

The Editor says...
Since most of the greenhouse effect is due to water vapor, [1] [2] the relatively small amount of CO2 emitted by human activity worldwide makes no perceptible difference.

AOC now blames 'racial injustice' for the climate crisis as she relaunches her Green New Deal.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been mocked for claiming that climate change is a product of racial injustice, as she relaunched her controversial Green New Deal.  The New York congresswoman on spoke in front of the Capitol to promote her plan, which set a series of ambitious targets such as eliminating U.S. greenhouse gas emissions within a decade and transitioning the economy away from fossil fuels.  Ocasio-Cortez said that climate change must be viewed through the lens of race.

Incoming White House Climate Team Blames Systemic Racism' for Climate Change.  A pair of top incoming White House environmental aides has blamed "systemic racism" as a driver of climate change in an attempt to justify a government-led economic overhaul.  President-elect Joe Biden named progressive policy adviser Maggie Thomas as Office of Domestic Climate Policy chief of staff and climate advocate Cecilia Martinez as "senior director for environmental justice" on Thursday [1/14/2021].  Both Thomas and Martinez have cited racial inequality as perpetuating climate change, arguing that the Biden administration's environmental policy must be centered on "racial and economic justice."  "Unless intentionally interrupted, systemic racism will continue to be a major obstacle to creating a healthy planet," Martinez said in a 2019 press release touting her "Equitable & Just" climate platform.  "The only path forward is to design national climate policies that are centered on justice."

The Editor says...
Did the climate start changing after the passage (over Democrat objections) of the Civil Rights Act of 1965?  Is there no "systemic racism" anywhere else in the world?  The climate has always changed, regardless of politics, but it changes so gradually that nobody would ever notice, if the news media didn't bring it up constantly.

Covert Covid Collaboration.  [Scroll down]  "Dr. Fauci said we're entering a 'pandemic age.'  What does that mean?" runs the headline on a September 2 Mic.com report by Joseph Lamour.  Fauci's prediction is based on a paper he authored with his NIAID colleague David Morens.  He believes that coronavirus might be only the first of a series of worldwide diseases and "the phenomenon is similar to the exponential growth of climate change."  Fauci and Morens, "point to deforestation, urban crowding, and wet markets for wild game, which have been wreaking havoc for a century and contribute to environmental degradation around the world."

Climate change:  Electrical industry's 'dirty secret' boosts warming.  Cheap and non-flammable, SF6 is a colourless, odourless, synthetic gas.  It makes a hugely effective insulating material for medium and high-voltage electrical installations.  It is widely used across the industry, from large power stations to wind turbines to electrical sub-stations in towns and cities.  It prevents electrical accidents and fires.  However, the significant downside to using the gas is that it has the highest global warming potential of any known substance.

Sulphur hexafluoride.  Sulphur hexafluoride is a man-made chemical.  Under normal environmental conditions it is a colourless, odourless, non-toxic, non-flammable, unreactive gas.  It is also very dense; about five times heavier than air, making it one of the heaviest known gases.  The main uses of sulphur hexafluoride are as an electrical insulator and in the production of magnesium.  It is also used to manufacture semiconductors, as an environmental tracer gas and as a filler for cushioning (such as in tennis balls or the soles of trainers).

The Editor says...
It is difficult to imagine a gas that is five times heavier than air could contribute to the greenhouse effect at all, since the roof of a greenhouse is what traps the heat.  The electrical industry is not the only place SF6 is used, and since it is a synthetic compound, it is only produced and supplied in an amount that meets the demand.  It is not dirty and it is not a secret.

CBS News Touts 'Peak Meat' by 2030 to Avoid Climate Crisis.  It looks like livestock production is contributing to climate change, and we need to hit "peak meat" by 2030 to avoid an "ecological disaster."  At least, that's the idea CBS News is touting from "scientists."  In a bizarre Dec. 12 article headlined "World must hit 'peak meat' by 2030 to avoid climate crisis, scientists say," CBS News reported that "In a letter published in the Lancet Planetary Health, more than 50 scientists recommend setting 2030 as the peak year for meat consumption, after which it needs to drop dramatically."  Stranger still, CBS summarized the letter's claims in the beginning paragraph, suggesting, "With livestock production contributing to climate change, people need to drastically reduce how much meat they eat to help stave off ecological disaster, a group of scientists warn."

The Editor says...
Follow-up questions:  In what science(s) are you 50 scientists currently working?  Is political science really scientific?  How much do you think the climate is changing?  What percentage of that change is the result of livestock production?  Do you understand the concept of trade-offs?  If the whole world got one degree warmer overnight, would you be able to tell the difference?

U.S. Cities Ban Natural Gas to Combat Climate Change; Gas Ranges on Chopping Block.  The fight against climate change is coming to our kitchens — and our bathrooms and laundry rooms.  Cities across the United States are banning the use of natural gas in new construction; others are considering such a ban.  That could mean the end of gas ranges, heating systems and clothes dryers in new homes.  Berkeley was first.  Officials in the Northern California city voted unanimously in July to ban natural gas in newly constructed buildings, becoming the first city in the country to do so, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Another great idea from the tree-hugging hippies who brought you 1.6-gallon toilets:
No more fire in the kitchen:  Cities are banning natural gas in homes to save the planet.  Fix global warming or cook dinner on a gas stove?  That's the choice for people in 13 cities and one county in California that have enacted new zoning codes encouraging or requiring all-electric new construction.  The codes, most of them passed since June, are meant to keep builders from running natural gas lines to new homes and apartments, with an eye toward creating fewer legacy gas hookups as the nation shifts to carbon-neutral energy sources.  For proponents, it's a change that must be made to fight climate change.  For natural gas companies, it's a threat to their existence.  And for some cooks who love to prepare food with flame, it's an unthinkable loss.

The Editor says...
Banning the residential use of natural gas simply means the natural gas will be burned at the central power plant and delivered to you in the form of electricity.

Pocket-sized aerosolized inhalers emit tiny amounts of methane.  They're wrecking the earth!
Latest Climate Culprits: Asthmatics.  By now you should know that you hate the planet if you eat beef, instead of mashed-up bugs or heavily salted soy protein or algae or whatever.  And of course you hate the planet if your car uses gasoline instead of electricity, which is generated by, apparently, magic.  But did you know that now you hate the planet if you have asthma but you insist on breathing anyway?

Scientists urge people to eat less meat amid declaration of climate emergency.  Scientists are imploring members of the public to eat less meat as they warn that the world is facing a climate emergency.  In a paper published today in journal BioScience, a global team of scientists have declared a climate emergency, detailing six areas of action they say must be addressed that can help slow down the impact of climate change.

The Editor says...
There is no climate emergency.  And if there ever is a climate emergency, it won't be caused by hamburgers.

Sanders supports US taxpayer funding of third-world abortions to combat climate change.  Sen. Bernie Sanders threw his support behind U.S. taxpayer-funded abortions in third-world countries when an audience member stressed the importance of curbing the human population because of climate change.  "Human population growth has more than doubled in the past 50 years.  The planet cannot sustain this growth," an audience member said.  "I realize this is a poisonous topic for politicians, but it's crucial to face.  Empowering women and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact.  Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe?"

The Editor says...
It seems to me that overpopulation is an indication that the world-wide climate is ideal, and getting better.  If there were a billion fewer in the world, the climate would not be affected.  The climate is the same today as it was when the world population was half of what it is now.

Harvard Climate Loon:  Keto Dieters Are Killing the Planet Because Bacon and Butter or Something.  Add the ketogenic diet to the ever-growing list of monsters under the beds of those suffering from climate change hysteria.  Apparently all of the bacon and butter we consume is going to KILL EARTH.

New York Times:  Lawns Are Symbols of Racism and Bad for Global Warming.  While most Americans are spending time this summer enjoying the sun in the comfort of their houses' yards, the New York Times is out with a new exposé on how lawn care is problematic, once viewed through the lens of social justice.  Lawns are contributing to pollution and climate change, asserts narrator David Botti, and their origins are far from woke, in a seven-minute video on the history of American lawns.

Germany [is] Looking at a Meat Tax to Battle Climate Change.  Last week German lawmakers proposed slapping a tax on meat in order to "help" the climate and improve animal welfare.  The new tax would raise the current tax from 7% to the standard 20%.  Environmentally superior Germans point out that the livestock sector is responsible for 14.5% of global greenhouse emissions.  The hope is that the tax will prevent Germans from consuming the offending food items.

Robert 'Beto' O'Rourke to Farmers:  Give 'Fair Share' of Crops for Climate Change.  Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Robert "Beto" O'Rourke proposed Friday in Iowa that the U.S. "allow" farmers to give up their "fair share" of crops to fight climate change.

The Editor says...
The farmer's fair share of his crops is 100 percent.  The farmer owns all of his crops, his animals, his tractors, and his buildings.  Socialists either misunderstand, or they abhor, the concept of private property.

White people's diets are killing the environment: study.  Caucasian populations are disproportionately contributing to climate change through their eating habits, which uses up more food — and emits more greenhouse gases — than the typical diets of black and Latinx communities, according to a new report published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology.  Researchers tracked information from multiple databases to identify foods considered "environmentally intense" by requiring more precious resources such as water, land and energy to produce — and, as a result, releasing more greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide through production and distribution.  Potatoes, beef, apples and milk are some of the worst offenders.

New Climate FlimFlam!  European Settlers Caused Global Cooling.  You thought you heard it all when it came to global warming extremism, but you have not.  The fanatics are now saying that European men caused the deaths of 55 million natives in the Americas.  That caused global cooling which led to a new era of modern man.  And that, in turn, caused global warming.  Allegedly, there were 60 million natives in the Americas before the explorers and settlers came with their diseases in 1492.  According to a new climate study, that caused the native population to dwindle to five million which caused global cooling.

America colonisation 'cooled Earth's climate'.  Colonisation of the Americas at the end of the 15th Century killed so many people, it disturbed Earth's climate.  That's the conclusion of scientists from University College London, UK.  The team says the disruption that followed European settlement led to a huge swathe of abandoned agricultural land being reclaimed by fast-growing trees and other vegetation.  This pulled down enough carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere to eventually chill the planet.

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Conveniently, the BBC chose to publish this opinion in the middle of the winter

Cleaner air could mean more global warming, expert says.  The comment was from Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, who wrote at Breaking Israel News about new research from an Israeli-Chinese coalition.  "An esteemed Hebrew University of Jerusalem expert on climate has declared that 'we need to rethink everything we know about global warming,' as new calculations show that scientists have grossly underestimated the effects of air pollution," she reported.

'Cut lamb and beef' to fight climate change.  The number of sheep and cattle in the UK should be reduced by between a fifth and a half to help combat climate change, a report says.  The shift is needed, the government's advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) maintains, because beef and lamb produce most farm greenhouse gases.  The report foresees an increase in the number of pigs and chickens because these produce less methane.  The farm union NFU said it did not agree with reducing livestock numbers.

No, Vegetarianism Won't Save the World from 'Climate Change'.  Vegetarians and vegans have been getting very uppity of late.  One reason for this is that some idiot told them they hold the key to saving the world.  According to the (rampantly vego-loon) Humane Society "your diet could save the planet".  According to Yvo de Boer, the former head of the UN climate agency, "the best solution would be for us all to become vegetarian."

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After we give up meat, and air conditioning, and coal, and petroleum, and the internal combustion engine, and then pay a "carbon tax" on everything we do, there's no guarantee the world will be any better off — and we certainly won't be.

Expanding Bitcoin use will push global warming above 2C in two decades, finds study.  The ascent of bitcoin could boost global warming to 2C in just two decades, according to a new analysis.  Cryptocurrencies have emerged in recent years as a novel means of completing financial transactions online, but experts have become increasingly concerned about their environmental impact.  The demand such currencies place on the energy system are enormous, and this drives up carbon emissions which in turn add to the overall global warming effect.

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[#1] Carbon dioxide is not carbon.  The production of electricity does not result in "carbon emissions" — at least not emissions into the atmosphere.  [#2] The production of electricity by hydroelectric, solar, wind, or nuclear power does not produce carbon dioxide as a byproduct.  [#3] Nobody has ever before claimed, as far as I know, that any action on our part would increase global temperatures by 2°C. within twenty years.  That's just absurd.

No, giving up burgers won't actually save the planet.  Abandoning meat is now the latest advice for saving the planet:  A "major new study" suggests that a "huge reduction in meat-eating" is " 'essential' to avoid climate breakdown," as The Guardian puts it.  This follows claims from the Humane Society that "your diet could save the planet" and the German Green Party's proposal for a national weekly vegetarian day.  Even the UN's former top climate official believes "the best solution would be for us all to become vegetarians."  The science clearly shows that meat production — especially beef — emits methane and requires CO2-heavy inputs.  But when we dig deeper, it turns out such claims are massively overhyped.

Bad Kitty! Your Cat Contributes To Climate Change.  Earlier this month, The New York Times featured an article titled "Hockey in the Desert."  The article concluded that by building a hockey stadium in Las Vegas, the National Hockey League was contributing to climate change.  The phrase "contributing to" is used over and over by political leaders and the media to voice concern about human-caused global warming, but "contributing to climate change" is a meaningless phrase. [...] Every human activity contributes to climate change.

The U.S. diet is a climate disaster.  If your household is anything like the American average, your diet generates lots of greenhouse gas emissions: roughly the same amount in a single week, a new study finds, as a drive from D.C. to Trenton. [...] But consumers can make small daily changes to bring that number down, said Rebecca Boehm, a postdoctoral fellow at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut and lead author of the study.  It's a simple matter of watching your budget, your "food miles" and — most important — your consumption of meat and dairy.  "If people reduced their spending on protein foods by 18 percent, they'd see almost a tenfold reduction in household greenhouse gas emissions," Boehm said.  "That is pretty significant."

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If you can't eat, what's the point of reducing greenhouse gas emissions?  Even if we all stop eating meat, the termites and volcanos and brush fires around the world will continue to produce unstoppable greenhouse gases.  Double cheeseburger, please.

NY Times:  It's So Cold Because You Drove A Fossil Fueled Vehicle.  That, and your use of a hair dryer, ice maker in the fridge, the fridge itself, air conditioning and heating, washing and drying your clothes with machines, wearing clothes that you didn't make yourself or buy from local manufacture, eating meat, not growing your own veggies, owning a gun, and so much more.

Mass. AG Wants 'Climate Change' Warning Labels At Gas Stations.  Do you know what would be great?  If fossil fuels companies threatened to pull out of areas run by climate change (scam) fanatics.  Perhaps they could develop a plan where they'd shut the gas off for a week (while making sure that gas station owners didn't lose money), and see how many climate change fanatics freak out.  Or, hey, they could refuse to sell their product to those governments.  Or, hey, how about this:  they could have a list of people they do not sell to, much like they use to for those who pass bad checks.

Bitcoin will cause global warming or something.  Bitcoin has caught the attention of liberal writers who argue the digital crypto-currency is contributing to — yes, you guessed it — global warming.

Does Bitcoin Really Cause Global Warming?  The green movement has found many things in modern life that cause global warming, but the latest really left us scratching our heads:  Trading Bitcoins.  At this point it might be easier to ask, is there anything that doesn't cause global warming?

NBC: Stop Having Babies!  It Causes Global Warming!  NBC News 'Think' calls themselves on Twitter a home of 'fresh opinion, sharp analysis and powerful essays.'  But there latest pro abortion "opinion" is hardly fresh, rather dull and hardly a powerful essay.  You see, according to NBC, you need to stop having kids, because it's bad for global warming.  Not only is it a scientific decision to stop having babies, but also a moral one.

Professor says dogs and cats harm climate, advises hamsters instead.  A UCLA professor who recommended replacing dogs and cats with more climate-friendly pets in the name of global warming may have bitten off more than he can chew.  His study, which found that dogs and cats have a significant impact on carbon emissions as a result of their meat-based diets, met with howls from pet owners and a lukewarm reception even from some environmentalists who also happen to love dogs.

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Carbon dioxide is not carbon, so please stop calling CO2 emissions "carbon emissions."  More importantly, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, nor is it the primary greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Stop Enjoying Summer, Climate Activists Advise.  The Merchants of Misery — a.k.a., climate scientists — are working overtime to shame you about all the pleasures you're enjoying this summer and how your selfish indulgences will cause the planet's demise.  Grilling your favorite cheeseburger?  Glutton!  Packing up your brood for a drive to the lake house?  Monster!  Hoping vacation sex will result in a new baby to add to the family?  Hedonist!  Even mowing your lawn earns a tsk-tsk.  A study from Sweden's Lund University published July 12 lists many of the sacrifices you should make to reduce your carbon footprint.  Most of the media coverage — and criticism — focused on the study's recommendation to have one fewer child.  Not only did the researchers consider more than three dozen scientific papers to compile their list, they also reviewed a handful of school textbooks and government publications to see whether the ruling class in Canada, Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. was appropriately indoctrinating the masses, particularly young people, about which "high-impact actions" will most effectively reverse global warming.

Barack Obama:  Eating More Steaks Contributes to Climate Change.  Former President Barack Obama warned the world that more people on the planet were eating meat, causing a dramatic rise in climate emissions.  "As people want to increase meat consumption, that in turn is spiking the growth of greenhouse emissions coming out of the agricultural sector," Obama said, pointing to countries that were consuming more meat.

A new culprit for climate change is found, but it's not of this Earth.  But now, a team of astrophysicists has released new data which seems to support a decades-old theory which places the blame, shall we say, a bit further away.  Since a picture is worth 1000 words, here's a hint:  [Photo]  That's right.  The actual culprit for the repeated rise and fall of global temperatures might actually be Mars.  That sort of thing is rather hard to square with our current debates but it all has to do with the "chaos" inherent in the orbits of the planets and how they interact with each other.

Small ponds have outsized impact on global warming: study.  Tiny natural ponds pose an overlooked danger for speeding up global warming, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.  In experiments designed to simulate moderate future warming, scientists in Britain found that such ponds — a metre (three feet) across — gradually lose the capacity to soak up one kind of greenhouse gas and give off even more of another.

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Have you noticed that everything (reported in stories like the one immediately above) contributes to global warming, yet nothing mitigates it?  "Tiny natural ponds" have been around for thousands of years.  Why are they just now being seen as enough of a problem to write a newspaper article about them?  Have they just now begun to contribute to global warming?  Notice also:  "tiny natural ponds" are tiny, and they're natural.  Natural means they have nothing to do with anthropogenic global warming.

California Schools Cut Meat, Cheese From Lunches To Fight Global Warming.  Oakland schools partnered with the environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE) to fight global warming by making student lunches climate-friendly.  FOE gave kids a lunch menu designed to eliminate foods it says are "unsustainable for our planet."  The new menu features far less meat and more plant-based food.  Any meat or cheese the school did use came from "pastured, organic dairy cows."  The student's lunch menu went from beef hot dogs and pepperoni pizza to vegan stir fry tofu and vegan tostadas.

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Remember this, kids:  If you eat meat, you'll cause global warming and ruin the earth.

Your car causes salmonella and other funny global warmy stories.  There has hardly been any warming in the last 20 years anyhow.  And if we are doing cosmic epidemiology, so far global warming seems to come with longer lifespans, health, wealth, food, and less polio.  It's likely that climate change will make you throw up, but it won't be gastroenteritis.  Salmonella is spread through bad food handling — by mixing up a bit of manure with dinner, say.

Everybody Panic: 'Climate Change' Is Going To Destroy Your Christmas Favorites.  This is all your fault, for refusing to give up your fossil fueled travel and big carbon footprint... no, no, it doesn't matter than all those pushing this issue haven't walked the talk, because they are doing something more important, spreading awareness, causing your own Christmas doom[.] [...] It's a real shame that you've refused to give up your use of an ice maker, which has caused weather patterns which had been the same for 4.5 billion years to change.

Feds offer Thanksgiving tips to fight climate change.  The federal government is worried that America is too stressed out to deal with Thanksgiving dinner safely so at least two departments have entered to help everybody live through the uniquely American holiday while also curbing global warming. [...] "The volume of household waste in the United States generally increases 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day — about 1 million extra tons," said EPA "There are many simple ways to 'green' your holiday season by reducing, recycling, and reusing.  You can also minimize your impacts on climate change."  For example, buy organic foods and don't use paper plates and cups at parties.

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Do paper plates cause global warming?  How does that work?  If we all stop using paper plates, will that stop global warming?

Abbas Blames Israeli Settlements for Global Warming at UN Climate Ceremony.  At the UN Earth Day ceremony in New York on Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed the "Israeli occupation" for global warming.  The ceremony was intended to mark the signing of an agreement reached at an international summit in Paris last December, but Abbas seized the opportunity to engage in Israel bashing.  Abbas took the podium and addressed the representatives of 193 nations gathered to address global environmental issues.  "The Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine," Abbas declared, "And the Israeli settlements are destroying the environment in Palestine.  Please help us stop the occupation and the settlements."

EPA Warning: Holiday Leftovers Contribute to Climate Change.  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) posted a video on its website to tell Americans that they should think about how much food they waste during the holiday season if they want to help save the planet.  The video is part of the EPA's "Fight Food Waste" campaign.  In the video posted on YouTube and in the text accompanying it, EPA claims that food waste contributes to climate change.

Schwarzenegger Pushes Vegetarian Diet to Stop Climate Change.  Former bodybuilder, action star, and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is now advocating a part-time vegetarian diet to protect the planet from climate change.  Speaking at the United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference this week, the Terminator star was asked by the BBC whether he would recommend reducing meat consumption to save the environment from greenhouse gases.

Should your turkey be taxed for climate change?  As Americans prepare for their Thanksgiving Day feasts, there's an issue on the horizon that could make that turkey more expensive:  taxing meat to reduce climate change.  Livestock is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, adding about the same amount of emissions as that of all the world's vehicles, according to a new report from the U.K. policy institute Chatham House.  But many consumers aren't aware of the link between their dinner plates and climate change, the report notes.

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Suppose there is a one-dollar global warming tax on every turkey sold in the month of November.  To what extent would that impede or prevent the preparation of turkey dinners as usual, and to what degree would global warming be affected?  And then, who gets the dollar?

Energy Department smashes pumpkins for causing climate change.  How scary are your jack-o'-lanterns?  Scarier than you think, according to the Energy Department, which claims the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.  Most of the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. end up in the trash, says the Energy Department's website, becoming part of the "more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year."  Municipal solid waste decomposes into methane, "a harmful greenhouse gas that plays a part in climate change, with more than 20 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide," Energy says.

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Decaying vegetation produces carbon dioxide and methane, in your front yard, at the city dump, and in the most remote forest.  This isn't a new development, and it does not cause catastrophic global warming, which is obvious because if greenhouse gases caused global warming, the catastrophic warming (that has only recently become a concern) would have started thousands of years ago.

More about methane.

Climate change poses "medical emergency," major report says.  Climate change could undermine the last 50 years of gains in global health, according to a new report from The Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change.  The authors of the paper, published Monday evening [6/22/2015], say that the potential risk to human health posed by climate change has been underestimated.  But they also say tackling it presents one of the greatest global health opportunities of this century.  "Climate change is a medical emergency," Commission Co-Chair Prof. Hugh Montgomery, director of the University College London Institute for Human Health and Performance, said in a statement.  "It thus demands an emergency response, using the technologies available right now."

A healthier lifestyle will also help fight climate change, says study.  Banning carbon dioxide-filled fizzy drinks from schools and cutting consumption of red meat and dairy products are not only ways to make Britain healthier but also key methods for tackling global warming, a new study has said.  Climate change has given people a golden opportunity to improve their health, according to the report on links between lifestyles and global warming — which even said that phasing out asthma inhalers could help.

Kofi Annan: Eat Bugs To Stop Global Warming.  Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan wants you to eat more insects.  Why?  It's better for the environment and your health, he argues.  "Keeping meat consumption to levels recommended by health authorities would lower emissions and reduce heart disease, cancer, and other diseases," Annan told The Guardian Sunday [5/3/2015].

Squirrels and beavers contributing to global warming more than previously thought.  Rodents such as squirrels and beavers are contributing far more to global warming than previously thought, forcing climate scientists to alter the models they use to chart how the world is warming up.  Arctic ground squirrels churn up and warm soil in the Tundra, releasing carbon dioxide, while methane released by beavers contributes 200 times more methane than they did 100 years ago, according to scientists from the American Geophysical Union.  Faeces and urine produced by rodents are speeding up the release of carbon from the permafrost, the vast store of greenhouses spanning the Arctic Circle, researchers found.

Kerry: Starving Africa Shouldn't Build More Farms Because It Would Contribute to Global Warming.  Speaking at the U.S.-Africa Summit earlier this week, Secretary of State John Kerry had a bit of astonishing advice for African leaders.  While noting that Africa faces a starvation problem, he also admonished its leaders not to create more farms or farmland.  The reason?  Adding more farms would contribute to global warming.

Obama announces funds to prepare country for climate change.  The president has made it a second-term priority to tackle climate change, as Republicans routinely deny that the Earth's temperature is warming and dramatically altering weather patterns.  Last month, he announced an Environment Protection Agency ruling that would curb carbon emissions by a third over the next 16 years.  The Supreme Court struck down parts of the ruling, but the cuts largely remained in place.  The vast majority of the funds announced today — 236.3 million [dollars] — will go towards improving a nation's rural electric system in eight states.

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Really?  The rural electric system is so faulty that it is affecting the climate?

Stop buying big fridges, middle class families told.  Middle-class families should stop buying large fridges in order to save energy and tackle climate change, a government-commissioned report has suggested.  Families could save up to £36 a year on their electricity bills by replacing large fridge-freezers or televisions with smaller appliances, according to a study published by the Department for Energy and Climate Change.

James Cameron wants you to eat all the plants to stop global warming.  Apparently, one of the next big projects for James Cameron has nothing to do with 100 year old wrecks or ten foot tall blue people who plug their pony tails into their dragons.  The director and his wife are ready to convince all of you to eat nothing but plants.  For your health?  Not just that... it's also to stop global warming, of course.

Harry Reid Says 'Multizillionaire' Koch Brothers Are The 'Main Cause' of Climate Change.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) continued his deranged, one-man crusade against the Koch brothers on Wednesday, accusing the libertarian philanthropists of being the "main cause" of climate change.  "The multizillionaire Koch brothers," Reid said, are "the two richest people in the world," and are primarily to blame for what some liberals refer to as "climate change."  "They are one of the main causes of [climate change]," Reid said.  "Not a cause, the main cause."

Reid: Kochs 'main cause' of climate change.  Charles and David Koch are one of the "main causes" of climate change, charged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor.  "While the Koch brothers admit to not being experts on the matter, these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly experts at contributing to climate change.  That's what they do very well.  They are one of the main causes of this.  Not a cause, one of the main causes," Reid said.

Harry Reid Sinks Deeper Into the Abyss.  Harry Reid's obsession with the Koch brothers has made him a figure of fun, but frankly, it has gotten past the point where anyone is laughing.  After Reid's foray onto the Senate floor today [5/7/2014], his family, friends and colleagues should be concerned about his mental health. [...] "Pollution" isn't causing global warming, the Koch brothers are not the "two richest people in the world," and the idea that the brothers are somehow one of the "main causes" of climate change is delusional, even if you buy into the anthropogenic global warming theory.

Things Harry Reid Has Blamed on the Koch Brothers.  Here's a unscientific compilation of things Mr. Reid blames on or has associated with the powerful brothers:  Climate Change:  "While the Koch brothers admit to not being experts on the matter, these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly experts at contributing to climate change.  That's what they do very well.  They are one of the main causes of this.  Not a cause, one of the main causes."

Mother Jones: Marijuana Causes Global Warming.  In an article from Mother Jones, the authors imply that marijuana growing is causing global warming.  Watch the way the article moves deliberately to its focus on the environmental dangers of marijuana growing to the climate change climax.

Meatballs cause global warming!
First the Green Gestapo Came For our Lightbulbs, Then our Iced Drinks and Hot Showers. Now [...].  A truly emetic announcement from the grim but indispensable Swedish flatpack furniture emporium IKEA:  they are considering changing the recipe of their most popular food line — meatballs — in order to help save the world from global warming.

Earthquakes 'contribute to global warming by releasing greenhouse gas from the ocean floor'.  Earthquakes may contribute to global warming by releasing greenhouse gas from the ocean floor, a study suggests.  Scientists uncovered evidence that a large earthquake in 1945 released more than seven million cubic metres of methane into the North Arabian Sea.  The discovery exposes a natural source of greenhouse gas emissions that has not been considered before, they claim.

N.Y. professor suggests regulating air condition[ing] to cool global warming.  Since air conditioners were first put on the market in 1939, they've been part of everyday life in the American household, as well as at work, in the car or inside stores and restaurants.  Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University wrote an opinion piece in Time magazine recently, pointing out that global energy consumption is soaring.  The expectation of air conditioning convenience is spreading to countries where American culture carries influence.

'We Are Incinerating the Planet... Because Too Many of Us Like to Eat Cheeseburgers'.  [David] Sirota made national news for his bizarre and bigoted hope that the Boston bomber would turn out to be "a white American."  Fresh off that fiasco, Sirota has turned his sights to changing the climate by changing America's diet.  According to Sirota's May 2 column, "the fastest way to reduce climate change" simply "requires us all to eat fewer animal products."  In cast that wasn't sufficiently clear, he added that "we are incinerating the planet and dooming future generations simply because too many of us like to eat cheeseburgers."

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There is a big difference between a one-degree temperature change and "incineration" of the entire planet — unless you are a left-wing alarmist.

Guns Responsible for Global Warming.  [Scroll down]  Maybe someone needs to draw a "hockey stick" curve to "prove" to Chris Matthews that the "assault weapons" really are the problem.  (We know global warming — if it ever existed — ended sixteen years ago but there's no arguing facts against the liberal narrative.)  Maybe the libs want to tie gun control to global warming.  Firing a gun creates heat, but so far no one has claimed that they emit atmosphere-destroying carbon.  Maybe the lefties don't want to tie two losing causes together for fear of each dragging the other down.

Bicycles to Be Taxed for Causing Global Warming.  The triumph of moonbattery means that there is no longer any limit whatsoever to government greed or tyrannical absurdity.

LA Times: Illegal Immigration Can Reduce Global Warming.  The Los Angeles Times ran a Thursday [3/14/2013] editorial by Middlebury College Professor Bill McKibben arguing that allowing millions of illegal immigrants into America will reduce global warming.  "I feel it's urgent that we get real immigration reform, allowing millions to step out of the shadows and on to a broad path toward citizenship," wrote McKibben.  "It will help, not hurt, our environmental efforts, and potentially in deep and powerful ways."

Warrmists [sic] Blame Heavy Snow In Russia On "Climate Change".  No matter what happens in the world, it "proves" their hypothesis of hotcoldwetdry.

Liberal Think Tank: Working Less Could Slow Global Warming.  A liberal Washington, D.C. think tank released a study that claims global warming can be slowed if people worked less.  The liberal Center for Economic Policy and Research suggests a worldwide switch to a "more European work schedule, which includes working fewer hours and more vacation time." [...] The study claims the less people work, the less carbon gets emitted.

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The European work schedule is one of the reasons the European countries are going broke.  And even if everyone in the world stopped working, bringing capitalism (and life itself) to a halt — which is the environmentalists' goal — it would only make a difference in the global CO2 levels if all the termites, cows and volcanos stopped working, too.

Global worming: how worms are accelerating climate change.  It may not be all about us humans -- earthworms could be contributing to climate change too, according to a new study.  What's more, the research warns worm populations are set to boom in the next few decades.  So should we be worrying about worm-induced warming?

UN Chief Blames Rich for Global Warming.  The U.N. chief says rich countries are to blame for global warming and should take the lead in forging a worldwide climate pact by 2015.