British and European bloggers post the alert to dismal weather bearing down on the climate summit in Copenhagen. From THE NEXT ICE AGE – NOW! we have this:

Siberian Blast about to hit Europe and The Summit!
All down to Global Warming of course!

Take a look at what is forecast for Europe next weekend, a full on Siberian blast 70’s style!

Can’t wait for the poor summit pictures, all down to Global Warming of course! Copenhagen is under the -15C!

Brilliant, you would have thought that they would have scheduled this for a summer conference at least.

Seriously, there is some major winter weather about the hit Europe, all down to a huge mid-latitude blocking High near Greenland….

Good! I hope Lysenkobama gets snowed in.

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Reference:

Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History  (excerpt)

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko

Lysenko (1898-1976) was a Soviet biologist who had a disastrous effect upon Soviet biology for more than 20 years….

Two of our writers, Allan Erickson and Jim Simpson, will be in a panel discussion with Lord Monckton tomorrow at noon EST. They will address the upcoming COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Lord Christopher Monckton was former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s science advisor. He has lectured and written extensively on the issue of climate change.

The discussion will be accessible by streaming audio at Crusade Radio. Use the following link to listen live:

Panel Discussion

You will also be able to hear Jim’s remarks to Grassroots America We the People this coming Friday, October 23, between 12:30 and 1:30PM EST. Tune in again to Crusade Radio.

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Barack Hussein Obama intends to cede US sovereignty to the United Nations at the December “Climate Summit” in Copenhagen. For background, you may read an article by Jim Simpson — Obama to Cede US SovereigntyFor more information, you may watch a speech made by Lord Monckton on the subject on our Webcast Page — Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul.

Barack Hussein Obama will cede US sovereignty to the United Nations at the December “Climate Summit.”

Not content with his humiliation in Copenhagen, Denmark this past September, President Obama will be traveling there again in December to attend the UN COP15 Climate Change Conference. This agreement would commit the United States to punitive and expensive greenhouse gas regulations dictated by the United Nations without recourse.

COP stands for “Conference of the Parties” and the December Copenhagen conference will be the 15th under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), hence COP15. According to their website, it will be one of the largest conferences ever held outside the New York or Geneva headquarters, with an anticipated attendance of over 10,000 people, including governmental representatives from 189 countries, industry groups, and other non-governmental organizations.

The theme of the December 7 – 18 conference is “Hope,” so perhaps Mr. Obama will have more luck this time. Instead of soliciting the International Olympic Committee with trite clichés and getting no payoffs, he will be doing something much easier: selling out our country. After all, ceding power, relinquishing billions in U.S. tax dollars and destroying U.S. economic competitiveness is a pretty easy sell to the countries that will benefit, and he has had a lot of practice doing the same thing here at home. He will have a hard time screwing this one up.

The Hope site optimistically pronounces:

On 7 December, leaders from 192 countries gather for UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and decide the fate of our planet…

Decide the fate of our planet… Do these people have any idea how mindlessly grandiose they sound? Of course not. They are out to save the planet, just like Nancy Pelosi! It is hard for a normal person to imagine making such proclamations without embarrassment. But this is today’s political class.

This agreement will cede U.S. sovereignty permanently and irrevocably to the United Nations. So said British Lord Christopher Monckton at an event at Bethel University in St Paul, Minnesota last Wednesday, October 14th.

Lord Monckton was former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s science advisor. He has lectured and written extensively on the issue, including an in-depth scientific critique to the 50,000 member American Physical Society, a serious side-by-side comparison slap-down of Al Gore’s global warming assertions, and a recent summary of the global warming issue. In introducing his topic at Bethel University, he states unequivocally:

…and I am going to show you the latest science, which now doesn’t leave the question unsettled any more, this is now settled science, it is now settled science that there is not a problem with our influence over the climate. The science is in, the truth is out, and the scare is over.

You can watch his entire presentation (1:35:33) on the Webcast Page here — well worth the time if you can spare it. The slideshow he frequently points to in this presentation can be viewed along with the video, here. Lord Monckton presents a series of statistics, charts and studies making a compelling case that not only is global warming insignificant — if it exists at all — but is likely not manmade, and more importantly, that the global warming alarmists have repeatedly, blatantly, deliberately lied, suppressing the facts to promote the myth.

Despite his effective refutation of manmade global warming, his closing remarks about the Copenhagen treaty are chilling:

I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.

So, thank you, America. You were the beacon of freedom to the world. It is a privilege merely to stand on this soil of freedom while it is still free. But, in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever. And neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect will have any power whatsoever to take it back. That is how serious it is. I’ve read the treaty. I’ve seen this stuff about [world] government and climate debt and enforcement. They are going to do this to you whether you like it or no.

Watch him make his powerful concluding remarks in the following video (4:12 min):

You might call it a bit of rhetorical overkill, but given everthing else this administration and Congress have already done, only a bit. As Monckton later stated in a Q & A session, for such a treaty to be ratified requires a positive vote from a two-thirds majority in the U.S. Senate.

It seems difficult to imagine Democrats convincing seven Republicans to assist them in committing national suicide that way. Indeed, a recent Wall Street Journal article quoted Senate Republicans as saying that whatever deal Obama cut at Copenhagen would be dead on arrival:

Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the top Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, predicts “a repeat of Kyoto — namely an environmentally ineffective agreement that cannot be ratified” by the Senate.

However, perhaps an easier option would be for Democrats to pass legislation enacting some or all of the proposals. The House has already passed the Waxman-Markey (Cap and Trade) bill. This onerous legislation calls for an 83 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses from 2005 levels by 2050. That means almost complete elimination of carbon based fuels, and parallels the goals identified in COP15, which asks participating countries to reduce global emmissions 50-85% by 2050.

Such reductions would essentially bring our economy to a screeching halt, as Lord Monckton states in his speech. Even the more modest goal for 2020 of a 17 percent reduction will force radical changes in how we do business and conduct our daily lives.

Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and the increasingly addled Lindsay Graham (R-SC), put out an Op-Ed in the New York Times last week, under the frighteningly Obamanoid title “Yes We Can,” indicating that perhaps Senate Republicans shouldn’t be so sanguine either. Their article concludes thusly (emphasis added):

We are confident that a legitimate bipartisan effort can put America back in the lead again and can empower our negotiators to sit down at the table in Copenhagen in December and insist that the rest of the world join us in producing a new international agreement on global warming.

So if Kerry and Graham get their way, not only is America going to agree to UN global warming regulations, we are going to lead the charge in getting them imposed!

And the UN panel is fully anticipating a more conciliatory approach from the US. Recognizing Kerry’s efforts, as UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer stated:

I think that a major shortcoming of Kyoto was that the official delegation came back with a treaty they knew was never going to make it through the Senate. And this time I have the feeling that the communication is much stronger, that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, through John Kerry, is really expressing strongly what they feel needs to be done in Copenhagen.

Thank you John Kerry.

The UN website states the following about COP15 (emphasis added):

This [the 2009 Bangkok climate change talks] was the penultimate negotiating session before COP15 in Copenhagen in December, at which an ambitious and effective international climate change deal is to be clinched.

Before COP15, there will be a final round of negotiations November 2-6 in Barcelona, Spain at the Barcelona Convention Center.

The most recent UNFCCC Working Group report (181 pages) can be accessed here in PDF format. Much of it references earlier documents, of which there are many. To fully assess the ramifications of this proposal would likely require referencing these earlier documents as well.

While the prospects for Senate ratification of this treaty are probably in doubt, it seems likely the US Congress may try to pass Waxman-Markey or some other hybrid legislation using the same underhanded tactics now in play on healthcare. All the more reason to redouble our efforts at getting them out in 2010.

Suffice it to say that if the carbon reduction targets already discussed are adapted by this country, nevermind whatever other onerous provisions are in this treaty, we might as well all buy a horse and buggy — sorry, rickshaw; horses create methane — because we will be headed back into the 18th century.

Additional Resources:

UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol — Guide to Climate Change Negotiations (2008)

SourceWatch — UNFCCC summary, listing all participating parties, all COP meetings past and scheduled, and other useful information

The government spent a lot of money. We’ll save a fraction of that in oil. The environmental benefits are small.

I guess I must be on the wrong page…

• A vehicle at 15 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 800 gallons a year of gasoline.
• A vehicle at 25 mpg and 12,000 miles per year uses 480 gallons a year.
• So, the average clunker transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.
• They claim 700,000 vehicles –- so that’s 224 million gallons / year.
• That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.¹
• Five million barrels of oil is about ¼ of one day’s US consumption.²
• And, 5 million barrels of oil costs about $375 million dollars at $75/bbl.
• So, we all contributed to spending $3 billion³ to save $375 million.

How good a deal was that ???

Say, wasn’t that one of Green Czar Van Jones’ programs for redistributing the wealth?

They’ll probably do a better job with health care though!!

¹42 gallons of oil per barrel

²US consumes 20,680,000 bbl/day

³$3,500 and $4,500 payments under the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS)

A wave of refrigerator explosions caused by environmentally-friendly coolant is the price of political correctness in the UK.

In the last three years, the UK has had at least four violent refrigerator explosions, two of them since May; and the environmentally-friendly coolant, isobutene, is the prime suspect.

In one incident, a homeowner likened the explosion to an earthquake, describing the blast as having ripped the fridge doors in half, torn a gaping hole in the home’s front door, and blown out all the lower-level windows.

The problem appears to have started 15 years ago with the widespread switch to “Greenfreeze” technology and the use of isobutane and propane hydrocarbon gases as refrigerants.

Although Greenfreeze refrigerators are designed with safety features to prevent the flammable natural gas inside the pipework from leaking into the fridge, a powerful explosion is theoretically possible if the isobutane gas should happen to leak and is ignited by a spark.

“There are hundreds of millions of these fridges,” stressed Jane Gartshore, president of the Institute of Refrigeration, “and these incidents are very, very rare.”

Before the switch to Greenfreeze technology, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were used as refrigerants, but enviro-conscious weenies whined incessantly about CFCs and HFCs damaging the ozone layer and contributing to global warming, so the coolants were banned.

Now, more than 300 million Greenfreeze refrigerators exist worldwide, and no one knows how many of them are “ticking-time bombs” ready to explode.

[Cross-posted from The Millstone Diaries.]

The pseudo-scientists claiming global warming have evaded peer review once again. From the UK Register comes this article:

We’ve lost the numbers: CRU responds to FOIA requests

The world’s source for global temperature record admits it’s lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record. The destruction (or loss) of the data comes at a convenient time for the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in East Anglia – permitting it to snub FoIA requests to see the data.

The CRU has refused to release the raw weather station data and its processing methods for inspection – except to hand-picked academics – for several years. Instead, it releases a processed version, in gridded form. NASA maintains its own (GISSTEMP), but the CRU Global Climate Dataset, is the most cited surface temperature record by the UN IPCC. So any errors in CRU cascade around the world, and become part of “the science”.

Professor Phil Jones, the activist-scientist who maintains the data set, has cited various reasons for refusing to release the raw data. Most famously, Jones told an Australian climate scientist in 2004:

“Even if WMO agrees, I will still not pass on the data. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it.”….

Note: FoIA = Freedom of Information Act

Why let the scientific method and the truth get in the way, when you have a political agenda to pursue?

Weather forecast for July 2080? No problem! Three day forecast? No can do!

From The Sunday Times UK we have this long-range projection of greenie delusions:

Here is the weather … for July 2080

ANYONE for a drop of Château d’Exeter? Farmers in Devon and Cornwall could be challenging vintners in France by 2080 as climate change transforms the southwest into a balmy wine-growing region.

Forecasters predict that temperatures could rise by 3C to 4C, making the West Country ideal for growing crops such as grapes, sweetcorn and sunflowers.

Meanwhile, commuters in London will be left sweltering as peak temperatures spiral as high as 41C.

Reality check: In the more mundane present, our same good Times observes this costly mistake:

Bank holiday forecast blunder

The weather forecast for last Monday’s Bank Holiday was a blunder. The Met Office said it would be wet along the South Coast, but instead it was glorious. According to Bournemouth Council’s tourist officer, Mark Smith, so many visitors were put off by the forecast that local businesses lost £1 million.

Former Vice President Al Gore’s man-made global warming claims are a hoax that threatens our future and the future of our children. Václav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, who just assumed the presidency of the European Union, is right when he states that “environmentalism is the new communism and climate change is a dangerous myth.” (Source.) At last the European Union has a courageous leader like Klaus, who dares state what is obvious to informed Americans and Europeans — that the man-made global warming claims are a fraud.

Unfortunately, the mainstream media, which seems to be paid by humanity’s enemies like George Soros, is hardly reporting the opinions of disapproving leaders like President Klaus and dissenting scientists.  At the recent conference on global warming in Poznan, Poland, more 650 scientists from around the globe challenged the man-made global warming claims. The dissenting scientists are more than 12 times the number of United Nations scientists (52) who authored the media hyped Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Summary for Policymakers.

Additionally, more than 31,000 American scientists have signed onto a petition that states,

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate…

Preparing to use the global warming hoax, President-elect Barack Obama has already telegraphed his intended agenda of “cap and trade” along with other heavy investments from increased taxes on the US population. Thus, Obama will increase his power and his control over the economy and the people. If not stopped, the global warming scam will enrich the scammers (Gore and Obama’s friends), increase the power of the UN and communists like Obama, and multiply poverty and servitude for the rest of us.

Related information:

The Heartland Institute — Global Warming: Was It Ever Really a Crisis?

More than 70 of the world’s elite scientists specializing in climate issues will confront the subject of global warming at the second annual International Conference on Climate Change in New York City March 8-10, 2009.

They will be joined by economists, legal experts, and other climate specialists calling attention to new research that contradicts claims that Earth’s moderate warming during the 20th Century primarily was man-made and has reached crisis proportions.

The Heartland Institute — Czech President Klaus on global warming alarmism

President Klaus has tentatively accepted a keynote speaking role at the second International Conference on Climate Change, produced by The Heartland Institute and more than 30 international co-sponsors. He writes primarily on economic and trading issues, but he also has this to say:

“We can also count on the fact that the Czech government will hopefully not be the champion of global warming alarmism. The Czechs feel that freedom and prosperity are much more endangered than the climate…”

Some more of that pesky global warming!!!!

Here’s an article from the Idaho Statesman:

Boise gets earliest snow on record
Valley shivers as winter weather makes a premature appearance
10/11/08

Big snow flakes fell early Friday evening, turning Downtown Boise into a giant snow globe for people on their way home from work. The snow caught many people off guard, including this bicyclist heading down Idaho Street between 8th and 9th around 5:45 p.m. Across the Treasure Valley, tree branches heavy with wet, snow-covered leaves fell on power lines, causing scattered power outages. This is the earliest measurable snowfall in Boise since recordkeeping began in 1898, according to the National Weather Service. At 10 p.m., the Weather Service said 1.7 inches of snow had fallen. The previous earliest recorded snowfall was Oct. 12, 1969, when a little more than an inch fell….

First it was 400 scientists, unaffiliated with the MSM or MoveOn/Soros.

Now it’s columnist John Tierney in the NY Times. He sprays a devastating coolant on Al Gore’s Nobel Prize- winning hot air.

The progressive Warmology Industry in 2008: Facing a serious recession?

From NewsMax:

NY Times: Global Warming Claims Bogus

Critics are calling it clear evidence that the climate of opinion on alleged global warming is shifting in favor of skeptics, especially since it comes from the New York Times, until now a fervent acolyte of climate change guru Al Gore and his doctrine of ongoing and disastrous climate change.

In his Times column for the first day of the new year, “In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm,” columnist John Tierney took a close look at the global warming debate and found that the climate change scenario being peddled by Mr. Gore and his legion of followers is anything but the settled scientific fact they claim, with the sole doubters being the equivalent of those who believe the earth is flat. Tierney, critics say, has nailed the climate alarmists and exposed their propaganda!….

References:

NewsMax: NY Times: Global Warming Claims Bogus

New York Times: In 2008, a 100 Percent Chance of Alarm