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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (765135)1/22/2014 11:20:58 AM
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Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto ProtocolDurban: Europe Finally Abandons Unilateral Climate Policy


By Guest Column Dr. Benny Peiser ( Bio and Archives) Monday, November 28, 2011
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The European Union’s demand for a road map leading to the next legally-binding global warming treaty raises a hurdle that may snarl negotiations at the United Nations climate conference this week. The 27-nation bloc said it accounts for about 11 percent of global emissions and that it can’t act alone on emissions blamed for damaging the environment.—Alex Morales, Bloomberg, 28 November 2011

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The 2008 Brussels summit symbolizes a turning point. The watered-down climate deal epitomizes the onset of a cooling period in Europe’s hitherto overheated climate debate. It may lead eventually to the complete abandonment of the unilateral climate agenda that has shaped Europe’s green philosophy for nearly 20 years.—Benny Peiser, The Wall Street Journal, 16 December 2008

Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned. The developments come as Environment Minister Peter Kent prepares for a climate conference in Durban, South Africa that opens on Monday. Kent said in the House of Commons on Nov. 22 he won’t sign a document at the Durban conference that extends the Kyoto targets. “Canada goes to Durban with a number of countries sharing the same objective, and that is to put Kyoto behind us,” Kent said.— CTV News, 27 November 2011

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The politics of the UN climate process are undergoing something of a fundamental transformation. Increasingly, countries are dividing into one group that wants a new global treaty as soon as possible - the EU plus lots of developing countries - and another that prefers a delay and perhaps something less rigorous than a full treaty. The UK and others argue that the Durban summit should agree to begin work on a new global agreement immediately, to have it in place by 2015, and operating by 2020 at the very latest. The US, Russia and Japan were already arguing for a longer timeframe. But BBC News has learned that at the MEF meeting, Brazil and India took the same position. Brazil wants the period 2012-15 to be a “reflection phase”, while India suggested it should be a “technical/scientific period”.—Richard Black, BBC News, 28 November 2011

Behind closed doors, these strategic delaying tactics are not altogether unwelcome by many if not most of the key non-EU nations. What is altogether new at this year’s climate summit is that even climate alarmism appears to have received a dose of cold water. The latest scientific research findings are certainly facilitating a growing number of climate delayers who are promoting an international wait-and-see strategy, a new diplomatic approach that is becoming increasingly fashionable among advocates of climate Realpolitik.—Benny Peiser, Financial Post, 26 November 2011

To grasp the almost suicidal state of unreality our Government has been driven into by the obsession with global warming, it is necessary to put together the two sides to an overall picture – each vividly highlighted by events of recent days. On one hand there is the utterly lamentable state of the science which underpins it all, illuminated yet again by “Climategate 2.0”, the latest release of emails between the leading scientists who for years have been at the heart of the warming scare. On the other hand, we see the damage done by the political consequences of this scare, which will directly impinge, in various ways, on all our lives. The scare over man-made global warming is not only the scientific scandal of our generation, but a suicidal flight from reality.—Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph, 27 November 2011



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MIT PHD. PROF. ABANDONS GLOBAL WARMING THEORY BTW: MOST PHD SCIENTISTS [NOT ON PUBLIC TX $$] REFUTE WARMING BY MANKIND.....GOOGLE
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Subject: MIT PHD. PROF. ABANDONS GLOBAL WARMING THEORY BTW: MOST PHD SCIENTISTS [NOT ON PUBLIC TX $$] REFUTE WARMING BY MANKIND.....GOOGLE "CFACT" FOR A STARTER & C WHO BELONGS!!





GLOBAL WARMING IS A RELIGION NOT A SCIENCE JUST AS GLOBAL FREEZING WAS CIRCA 1970s. AND THIS WEEKS WEATHER IS NOT A PARAMETER FOR PRO OR CON GLOBAL WHATEVER BUT A WHOLE SUMMER OF ZERO HURRICANES HITTING USA GIVEN THAT NOAA PREDICTED [APRIL, 2013] A ++SURGE IN HURRICANE ACTIVITY WITH VERY VIOLENTS ONES IS A FACT AGAINST THE HYPOTHESIS OF WARMING. NOAA's FAILURE ALSO TELLS YOU LOUD AND CLEAR THAT CLIMATE MODELS TODAY JUST SUCK! THE TWO WORLD RECOGNIZED UNIV. OF COLORADO EXPERTS CONFESSED 2013 THAT THEIR 22 YEARS OF HURRICANE MODEL USE HAS BEEN A TOTAL FAILURE AND THEY NO LONGER DO SO TODAY. REF: HUFFINGTON POST AND WASH POST.



THE WORLD HAS, UNFORTUNATELY, ENTERED INTO A "GRAND SOLAR MINIMUM" AND THAT IS WORSE THAN WARMING I ASSURE YOU.



AND FOR THOSE THAT CHOOSE "CLIMATE CHANGE" AS A WAY TO DEFEND YOURSELF IN COCKTAIL CONVERSATION? THAT TERM WAS COINED WHEN IT BECAME CLEAR 10 YEARS AGO TO SOROS-GORE ET AL. THAT GLOBAL WARMING WITH BAD HURRICANES JUST WAS NOT TAKING PLACE AND THEY HAD TO CHANGE THE SALES PATTER TO CONFORM.



RECENT IPCC CLIMATE REPORT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT NO.....REPEAT NO GLOBAL WARMING TOOK PLACE OVER PAST 14 YEARS PER NASA DATA!! BUT, LOL, DECLARED IT TO BE A BUMP IN THE ROAD TO GLOBAL WARMING THAT WOULD RESUME CIRCA 2018-ISH. HOW DESPERATE IS THAT THINKING? IF YOU BOUGHT INTO THE TERM CLIMATE CHANGE THEN YOU OUGHT TO TAKE A COURSE IN FRESHMAN LOGIC 101 AT YOUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE BECAUSE A 9TH GRADE EDUCATION SHOULD HAVE REVEALED TO ALL THE SIMPLE FACT THAT CLIMATE CHANGE PER SE WITHOUT MANKIND PRESENT AT ALL OCCURRED BETWEEN EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE SEVEN ICE AGES OF THE WORLD!! HELLO? THE ICE MELTED! YOU OUGHT TO BE THANKFUL. 14,000 YEARS AGO N. AMERICA WAS IN AN ICE AGE PRE GREAT LAKE FORMATION. IT MELTED.



YOU BETTER PRAY NO LARGE VOLCANOES OCCUR AND YOU OUGHT TO PRAY FOR SOME GLOBAL WARMING TO FEED THE WORLD AT LARGE!!!!!!!!! TOMATOES GET REALLY NICE AND BIG AT 400 PPM CO2 BTW AND IT IS ONLY ABOUT 375 PPM NOW. IN THE PAST IT WAS 800PPM. CO2 WAS NEVER A GREENHOUSE GAS UNTIL EPA DECREED IT SO TO CONFORM TO THE MENTAL DISEASE OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS THAT INFECTED MUCH OF AMERICA SINCE THE LATE 70s OR SO. CO2 IS A JOKE COMPARED TO WATER VAPOR AND METHANE GAS ABILITY TO INDUCE A GREENHOUSE EFFECT.



CHRIS: YOU NEED TO GET IN FRONT OF THIS BREAKING STORY ACCUMULATING OVER THE PAST DECADE++ SO THAT YOU ARE NOT LOOKING INTO THE TV 3 YEARS FROM NOW AND ASKING "SO, HOW DID THE WHOLE COUNTRY BUY INTO THIS ARGUMENT PRO GLOBAL WARMING IN THE VERY FIRST PLACE? .......IN OTHER WORDS, WHO STARTED IT AND EXACTLY WHY? DANA MILBANK YOU GO FIRST....................



ME: THE PRE EMINENT WOMEN SCIENTISTS, CLIMATOLOGIST, AND GLACIEROLOGISTS [AND THERE ARE MANY TO INCLUDE THE VERY FIRST WOMAN TO RECEIVE A PHD IN CLIMATOLOGY] COME DOWN ON THE SIDE OF THE EQUATION THAT MANKIND PER SE IS NOT THE CULPRIT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE OF MELTING OF ICE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES THAT LINE THE POCKETS OF VERY SMART MEN LIKE GEORGE SOROS AND OTHRS IN THE BUSINESS OF SELLING.....LOL....CARBON CREDITS. I DARE SAY MOST OF YOU CANNOT DEFINE A CARBON CREDIT, WHO SELLS THEM AND HOW THEY ARE BOUGHT, AND WHAT CO. SELLS THEM....HOW THE CREDITS ARE LOGGED IN AND, IMPORTANTLY, WHERE THE HELL DOES THE MONEY REALLY GO AND TO WHOM! FEEL FREE TO SEND ME AN EMAIL WITH THE ANSWERS.



GOT A GOOD QUESTION? I WILL GET AN ANSWER AND PASS ON TO ALL. MAYBE I WILL LEARN SOMETHING IN THE PROCESS WHICH IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING. WATCH NATL GEO "MINI ICE AGE" IF YOU EVER GET THE CHANCE. NO PC JUNK IN THAT AND YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH IN JUST 2 HOURS. SHOULD BE REQUIRED VIEWING IN HS TO HELP STEM THE BRAINWASHING PERFORMED BY NEA UNION TEACHERS TRYING SOOOO HARD TO BE PC AND CONFORM AND JUST MAKE IT TO RETIREMENT NEVER MIND THEY ARE GRADUATING MANY IDIOTS THAT CANT COUNT CHANGE AND THINK ON THEIR OWN TWO FEET.



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    To: Wharf Rat who wrote (765135)1/22/2014 11:24:46 AM
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    Green Fade-Out: Europe to Ditch Climate Protection GoalsBy Gregor Peter Schmitz in Brussels



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    Europe may be backing away from its ambitious climate protection goals.

    The EU's reputation as a model of environmental responsibility may soon be history. The European Commission wants to forgo ambitious climate protection goals and pave the way for fracking -- jeopardizing Germany's touted energy revolution in the process.

    The climate between Brussels and Berlin is polluted, something European Commission officials attribute, among other things, to the "reckless" way German Chancellor Angela Merkel blocked stricter exhaust emissions during her re-election campaign to placate domestic automotive manufacturers like Daimler and BMW. This kind of blatant self-interest, officials complained at the time, is poisoning the climate.




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    But now it seems that the climate is no longer of much importance to the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, either. Commission sources have long been hinting that the body intends to move away from ambitious climate protection goals. On Tuesday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported as much.

    At the request of Commission President José Manuel Barroso, EU member states are no longer to receive specific guidelines for the development of renewable energy. The stated aim of increasing the share of green energy across the EU to up to 27 percent will hold. But how seriously countries tackle this project will no longer be regulated within the plan. As of 2020 at the latest -- when the current commitment to further increase the share of green energy expires -- climate protection in the EU will apparently be pursued on a voluntary basis.

    Climate Leaders No More?

    With such a policy, the European Union is seriously jeopardizing its global climate leadership role. Back in 2007, when Germany held the European Council presidency, the body decided on a climate and energy legislation package known as the "20-20-20" targets, to be fulfilled by the year 2020. They included:

    • a 20 percent reduction in EU greenhouse gas emissions;


    • raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources to 20 percent;


    • and a 20 percent improvement in the EU's energy efficiency.


    All of the goals were formulated relative to 1990 levels. And the targets could very well be met. But in the future, European climate and energy policy may be limited to just a single project: reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Commission plans also set no new binding rules for energy efficiency.

    Welcome, Frackers

    In addition, the authority wants to pave the way in the EU for the controversial practice of fracking, according to the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The report says the Commission does not intend to establish strict rules for the extraction of shale gas, but only minimum health and environmental standards.

    The plans will be officially presented next Wednesday ahead of an EU summit meeting in March. Observers, however, believe that a decision is unlikely to come until the summer at the earliest. But action must be taken this year: At the beginning of 2015, a climate conference will take place in Paris at which a global climate agreement is to be hashed out.

    The European Parliament is unlikely to be pleased with the Commission's plans. Just at the beginning of January, a strong parliamentary majority voted to reduce carbon emissions EU-wide by 40 percent by 2030 and to raise the portion of renewables to at least 30 percent of energy consumption.

    Germany's Energy Goals at Risk

    The Commission's move further isolates Germany. Merkel's government, a "grand coalition" of her conservatives and the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), seeks to increase the share of renewables in the country's energy mix to 60 percent by 2036. As reported in the latest issue of SPIEGEL, Sigmar Gabriel, SPD chair and minister of energy and economics, recently urged Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger to put forth mandatory expansion targets for renewable energy in the EU by 2030. Europe "can't afford to pass up this opportunity," Gabriel wrote.



    But within the Commission, the ambitious project has long been controversial. The same goes for EU member states, as Gabriel recently discovered. Prior to Christmas the minister, together with eight colleagues from throughout the EU, called for a "renewables target" in a letter to the Commission. But some countries, such as France, joined the appeal only hesitantly at the time. Paris might prefer instead to rely more heavily on nuclear power in order to meet stringent carbon emission requirements.

    Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger, a German from Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, has also shown reluctance. Rather than setting clear goals for the share of renewables, he wants fixed targets only for the reduction of carbon emissions -- and he is skeptical even of the 40 percent target proposed by Climate Commissioner Hedegaard.

    The Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) writes in a recent study that more moderate EU climate goals and less support for renewable energies could have a real impact on Germany's so-called Energiewende, or energy revolution. "In such a context," writes the nonpartisan think tank, "it will be increasingly difficult for Germany to successfully carry out pioneering policies."



    To: Wharf Rat who wrote (765135)1/22/2014 11:28:06 AM
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    So where is the global warming?


    12 days 16 hours ago |119 Views |

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    It started as global warming. When that wasn’t working out, they re-named it climate change, now every weather event that happens around the world can be blamed on climate change. A team of climate scientists (only 4 percent of the news media reported they were scientists) recently went in search of evidence of the world’s melting ice caps, but instead, have been forced to abandon their mission … because the Antarctic ice is too thick, the most in years. Chris Turney, a climate scientist and leader of the expedition, was going to document “environment changes” at the pole. He said they expected melting ice to play a big part in the expedition. But instead, the ship has been stuck in ice since Christmas eve day. And so far ice breaking ships can’t reach them because the ice is just too thick. It’s too bad Al Gore wasn’t on the ship with them so he could have experienced some global warming also.

    For the past 17 years, there has been no measurable global warming and in the last 12 years, there has been a slight cooling according to RSS satellite data. Warmer temperatures increased for 20 years, from the late 1970’s to the late 1990’s but have stopped warming and have begun to cool, many scientists say. The Atlantic hurricane season was the slowest in 30 years, and with no major hurricanes forming, the least since 1994 according to NOAA. Over 2,000 snow and record cold records have been broken across the U.S. Europe, North America and many other areas of the Earth have experienced unusually low temperatures.

    The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in damage control. The IPCC chief, Raj Pachauri, admitted in early 2013 that there has been a 17 year plateau in global temperatures, then later in the year he denied it. Remember these are the same guys, back a few years ago, that got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, fudging numbers and tweaking their so-called facts. So where is the warming we are preparing for? Does anyone really think global warming causes global cooling? Sorry to say, but some people do.

    Ron and Debbie Boggs

    Delaware



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    After they cool the past some more, it will be the warmest ever just like every year and every month from now on will be manufactured into the warmest ever.


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