The ice caps hold a special place in the cold hearts of the global warming advocates who are all too quick to insist that our ice caps are currently melting at an unprecedented rate. We suspect that they will not be particularly thrilled to learn that a paper has just appeared in Geophysical Research Letters entitled “A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850.”
Less than a year after challenging the world to a race to stop global warming, European Union nations are bickering over who should carry the biggest burden in the EU's push to cut greenhouse gases.
German industrialists estimate the measures could endanger one million jobs.
Another factor might be contributing to the thinning of some of the Antarctica's glaciers: volcanoes.
One in six British households is living in fuel poverty, the highest for almost a decade, according to new figures that threaten the government's target to eradicate the problem in England by the end of the decade.
Fuel poverty is defined as when a household spends more than a tenth of its income on utility bills.
The Department of the Interior and its Fish and Wildlife Service are getting ready to trample on your rights, drive up your cost of living, and regulate virtually every aspect of your life. You need to act immediately – or your energy and economic life will soon be dictated by climate change alarmists in government agencies, courts and environmental groups.
Energy independence rivals weather as the thing everybody talks about but nobody does anything about. Particularly Democrats. President Bush, recently seen asking the Saudis to increase their oil production, is at least trying to do something.
So, über global warming rent-seeker Royal Dutch Shell finds itself leading European industry's cry for help, seeking rescue from the Eurocrats' push to make something less of a laughingstock out of their cap-n-trade scheme. True, the statement by their CEO is made specifically by virtue of his chairing a particular committee but it doesn't give off the odor of having been dragooned into doing so. Reminding us that it is difficult to ride the backs of certain tigers without ending up on the inside.
RDS were of course among the noisiest cheerleaders for the scheme, in on the game early with Enron and BP, confident that it wouldn't get out of their control, would always be or be close to the scheme that they designed and planned to reap, etc. That cocksure thinking should ring rather familiar in many K Street offices right now. Oh, and presidential campaigns in both parties.
A lesson, but is anyone in the U.S. listening?
I just don't understand American liberals and their attitude toward mathematical models. The left places an inordinate amount of faith in untested models predicting man-made warming of the global climate, while ignoring time-tested mathematical models in another important field important to all Americans.
I was having lunch a few months back with a friend who thinks that “maybe there is global warming” because when he was growing up in the 70’s it was colder than it is now. And it’s gotten a little warmer ever since then.
People tend to think of “normal” as the way it was at some point in their past, most often their childhood. So in the ‘70s, people started worrying about global cooling, partly because many people remember balmier temperatures when they were growing up.
The truth is, we don’t live in a climatically-static world. The Earth’s climate is a dynamic system:
Globally averaged temperature variations between 1850 and 2007 show the emergence from the "Little Ice Age" in the early 1900's, slight cooling from the 1940's to the 1970's, and then warming again since the 1970's. (HadCRUT3 temperature dataset from the UK Met Office and Univ. of E. Anglia)
Global average temperature reconstruction based upon 18 temperature proxies for the period 1 A.D. to 1995, combined with the thermometer-based dataset from the UK Met Office and University of East Anglia, covering the period 1850 to 2007. Note that for both datasets each data point represents a 30-year average. 
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