Y2Kyoto: Saving The World Through Burning Jet Fuel
Efforts continue to rescue us from the end of civilization as we know it; Calculations suggest flying the 15,000 politicians, civil servants, green campaigners and television crews into Indonesia will generate the equivalent of 100,000 tonnes of extra CO2. That...
Y2Kyoto: Running Out Of Time
Running out of tarmac; [T]he management of Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport are concerned that the large number of additional private charter flights expected in Bali during the UN Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) December 3-15, 2007, will exceed the...
Y2Kyoto: They Warned Us That People Would Drown
Among the events related to global warming were "Hurricane Katrina," "California wildfires," and "Asian tsunamis." Because it's self-evident that SUVs and coal-powered plants cause undersea earthquakes -- at least to the folks at CNN....
Y2Kyoto: Not Even Nike Can Save Us Now
Shrinking brains, great balls of methane fire, and wee helpless babies bursting into flame - can the global warming news get any worse? Why, yes! It can!...
Y2Kyoto: The Killing Kompost
Annually, the UK dumps.... 6.7 million tonnes, meaning each household jettisons between £250 and £400 worth of food each year. Most of the waste – which nationally costs £8bn – is sent to landfill where it rots, emitting the potent...
Y2Kyoto: Where They
Can't See The Forest
For the ice......
Y2Kyoto: Another
One Bites The Dust
Guardian; Ministers are planning a U-turn on
Y2Kyoto: Saving The
Planet From Emperor Qin Shihuangdi
Y2Kyoto: Let The
Southern Bastards Freeze In The Dark
Slow to get with the global warming program; Under the headline “Energy Crunch Threatens South American Nations,” reporter Alexei Barrionuevo’s lead graph grabs you and never lets go: “Santiago, Chile – For Chile and Argentina, it was the frostiest of...
Y2Kyoto: What Oslo
Giveth
Y2Kyoto: Closing On
The Kill
Dion threatens to fall on election sabre; The
Canadian Press reported Thursday that the Conservatives have drafted a throne
speech aimed at forcing the Liberals into a politically embarrassing
abandonment of its
Y2Kyoto: Not Since
Yasser Arafat
Has there been a more appropriate Nobel choice. Oops - In the wake of a British court ruling that the "documentary" contains material errors of fact, a "call to return Inconvenient Truth Oscar" A nice gesture, if altogether empty. After...
Y2Kyoto: An
Inconvenient Court Case
"Here's something American media are virtually guaranteed to not report: a British court has determined that Al Gore's schlockumentary "An Inconvenient Truth" contains at least eleven material falsehoods."...
The Sound of
Settled Science: Chicken or Egg
Little by little the "concensus" that Anthropogenic Global Warming exists is being broken. In what is becoming a death by a thousand cuts, AGW takes another hit: A new peer-reviewed scientific study counters a major premise of global warming theory,...
Y2Kyoto: In The Pay
Of Big Socialsm
IBD; George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire's backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency. How many people, for instance, know that...
Y2Kyoto: When
Rhinos Roamed The Glaciers
Sydney Morning Herald; ONE day, climate change
could cost the earth. For now, it is a nice little earner for Russian hunter
Alexander Vatagin. In Siberia's northernmost reaches, well above the
Y2Kyoto: Someone
Stop Darryl Hannah
Before she kills us all; Rapeseed and maize biodiesels were calculated to produce up to 70 per cent and 50 per cent more greenhouse gases respectively than fossil fuels. The concerns were raised over the levels of emissions of nitrous...
Y2Kyoto: The
Year-Round Port Of Churchill
Warmer winters. Wetter* summers. I'm failing to see the downside in this; As I’ve written before, the solar cycle appears to be reaching the end of its manic phase, and we should not be surprised by the onset of rather...
Y2Kyoto: Dion's Dog
Didn't Hunt
Calgary Sun; The paper copy of a power-point presentation assembled for incoming Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn specifically addresses whether Canada's commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels during the next four years and when Canada can pull...
Y2Kyoto: The Great
Google Headline Search
June 14th, 2007: Intel and Google Kick Off Initiative to Save Climate Sept. 12, 2007: NASA gives Google founders a coveted parking place for their private jet...
Y2Kyoto: Is That A
90-Horse Johnson Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?
Drowning the polar bears, one promotional video at a time. Don't be too hard on Jack - they were due for a cull anyway. (h/t "muttsrus" in the comments)...
Y2Kyoto: Down On
The Carbon Credit Plantation
"My master was so kind to me that I was always glad to do his bidding, and proud to labor for him as much as my young years would permit." * Update -"How we flyin' today, massuh?...
Y2Kyoto: Be Still
My Beating Heart
Well this explains that vast, unpopulated wasteland known as "the equator"; Doctors warn that the warmer weather expected with climate change might also produce more heart problems. "If it really is a few degrees warmer in the next 50 years,...
Y2Kyoto: Where Al
Gore Is The Man And Sheep Are Nervous
At the 2007 Organic Expo (
Y2Kyoto: The Fine
Art Of Environmental Appeasement
Henry Payne; In his conversation with The News editorial board last week, [Rep. John Dingell - D] made clear his objections to his own party's misguided green agenda even as he touted his own environmental record in shepherding the 1990...
Y2Kyoto: Shares
Decline On The Hot Air Exchange
Europe's Dirty Secret (PDF); The EU emissions trading scheme (ETS), the region's main policy tool to combat climate change, is not working and should be reconsidered due to its high operating costs and poor results of curbing greenhouse gas emissions,...
Y2Kyoto: The
Science is settled. You're going to Hell.
h/t reader Peter G....
Y2Kyoto: Hummer
Your Way To A Better Climate
Save the planet - get your dirty feet off it; Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same...
Y2Kyoto: Saving The
Planet Through Glyphosates
*. SDA flashback:
Y2Kyoto: Don't
Leave Without Your Jacket
"Clearly, the wrong horses have been backed." For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created...
Y2Kyoto: An
Inconvenient Rip-Off
Sasktel, call your premier. The full contract is up at The Smoking Gun. Via Drudge. (Perhaps we're being too hard on the Goracle. You think it's easy these days to put Chilean sea bass on your childrens' plates?)...
Y2Kyoto: Solar For
Us, Dung For You
Common sense interrupts the climate change debate;
Few people in
Y2Kyoto: Dry Dock
Can the ice caps melt fast enough save
Y2Kyoto: Saving The
Planet
One clear cut forest at a time;
Y2Kyoto: Fresh From
Their Live Earth Appearance
An astonishing backdrop containing more than 9 million LEDs has been created for the Genesis "Turn It On Again" world tour. XL Video UK has supplied 15,089 Barco O-Lite LED panels with 270 control boxes, plus 102 Mitsubishi 16:8...
Y2Kyoto: No Blood
For Biodiesel!
What's a green revolution wiithout a massacre?
Armed groups in
Y2Kyoto: Saving The
Planet One Empty Seat At A Time
Another inconvenient box office ; Continued weak demand for the singing saviors of climate change With the worldwide "Live Earth" concert on July 7, Hamburg wants to protect the climate and take its place next to other metropolitan venues such...
Y2Kyoto: Saving The
World Postponed
And a big shout out to
Y2Kyoto: 0.006
Degrees
A complete list of things caused by global warming; Agricultural land increase, Africa devastated, African aid threatened, air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, allergies increase, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, amphibians breeding earlier (or not), ancient forests dramatically...
Y2Kyoto: An
Ungrateful Gaia
"I think the evidence is quite clear that carbon offsets cause whirlwinds."...
Y2Kyoto: June is
Snöskoter Month
Via Climate Audit....
Y2Kyoto: The End Of
The IPCC?
White House Fact Sheet: A New International Climate
Change Framework Today, President Bush Announced
Y2Kyoto: Where
Europe Takes The Lead!
At least, according to CBC Fruit Fly Guy (May 2006)
(PDF); The European Union (EU) has a
Y2Kyoto: The
"Megatonnes of Money" Denier
Pouring the Kool-Aid down the sink; "The science of global warming is speculative. But there's nothing speculative about the damage a C02 capture program will do to this country. I know the names of many of the thousands of people--American...
Y2Kyoto: Strange
Place To Ride Out A Heat Wave
"You’re supposed to end up on Ararat, not start there."...
Y2Kyoto: Bettin' On
Baseball
Since IPCC climate modellers possess the super-computing power to use data collected from both past and present to predict sea levels, weather patterns, planetary temperature, and polar bear populations 50 years into the future... what are they waiting for? Surely...
Y2Kyoto: The
Settled Science
Those deniers just won't let it go... The strong effect of cloud processes on model sensitivities to greenhouse gases was emphasized further through a now-classic set of General Circulation Model (GCM) experiments, carried out by Senior and Mitchell (1993). They...
Y2Kyoto:
"Every weather calamity - they portray it as unique"
[edited transcript] RUSH: Dr. Spencer [
climatologist from the
Y2Kyoto: Bright,
Articulate And Hemi-American
Today there are two kinds of car companies:".. those that mass produce fuel-efficient cars and those that will. The American auto industry can no longer afford to be one of those that will." And, still one kind of "green" politician;...
Y2Kyoto: The Only
Good Polar Bear
h/t...
Y2Kyoto: What do
they find when the ice sheets retreat, in the Alps?”
Q: Could you rank the things that have the most significant impact and where would you put carbon dioxide on the list? A: Well let me give you one fact first. In the first 30 feet of the atmosphere, on...
Y2Kyoto: Tracking
Your Trash
It's not enough that the average Briton is captured on closed-circuit TV cameras in his car, in the street, in the shopping mall, and even in country lanes where the rural constabulary have hidden them in trees to catch...
Y2Kyoto: Al Gore
Strikes A Blow For Intelligent Design
A global warming disciple was troubled by the
Goracle's presentation in
Y2Kyoto: Worlds
Leading Palace Dweller On Climate Change
Chronicle Herald; While Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion and New Democrat Jack Layton all took turns denouncing the analogy, Prince Charles was making much the same point as May in a speech in London. "I do not...
Y2Kyoto: Just For
Laughs
Lewis Black, Rex Murphy and a cast of deserving targets....
Y2Kyoto: Mars
Threatened By Flooding
"Who knew the Viking Landers were capable of so much pollution?"...
Y2Kyoto: The Moron
Is The Message
Y2Kyotoshop: With
Disclaimers
Heh; Of course, it has been suggested that manipulated images should have some sort of label or icon to inform the gullible. That was also suggested to me (see my response) and it’s one of the reasons I started tagging...
Y2Kyoto: In The
Pockets Of Big Carbon
A Financial Times investigation into this century's version of the tulip trade*; A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place....
Y2Kyoto: Hot Air
Trade Spins Off Into Invisible Goods Manufacturing
PlanetGore; This latest [in the carbon cap-and-trade] comes on top of a) plants being closed in Valencia and Zaragoza for lack of a Kyoto permit and b) Acerinox's CEO announcing his (steel manufacutring) investment would all go outside Europe now...
Y2Kyoto: An
Inconvenient Box Office, Pt.3
Good thing it's only a few days away. At the rate ticket sales are falling, any delay could risk Gore arriving to an empty theater. Canadian Press, Apr.12; Calvert said SaskTel's investment has nearly been returned in the ticket sales,...
Y2Kyoto: An
Inconvenient Box Office, Con't
So, it turns out we're not just paying Al Gore for his inconvenient visit, we're buying the tickets, too. Via email....(revealed in the Legislature) [T]he Crown Corporations have bought a total of 584 tickets to Al Gore. That's over 10%...
Y2Kyoto: Made In
Anywhere Else But Here Fuel Standards
Keeping up with the Schwarzeneggers; One
interesting addition to the Clean Air Act requires
Y2Kyoto: An
Inconvenient Box Office
Talk about an backhanded ticket sales pitch - with
Al Gore's April 23rd appearance in
Y2Kyoto: "66%
Confident, 50% Sure"
Reader Phil Primeau (Defend
Y2Kyoto: The
Inconvenient Math
Lorne Gunter employs something seldom seen in mainstream coverage of global warming - math; Think of the atmosphere as 100 cases of 24 one-litre bottles of water -- 2,400 litres in all. According to the global warming theory, rising levels...
Y2Kyoto:
Legislating Morality
"As the former vice-president said as he
accepted his Academy Award, climate change is moral issue, not just a political
issue,” - Lorne Calvert Tim Thorstenson,
Y2Kyoto:
"Climate change ... not just a political issue"
From a Government of Saskatchewan press release
that quotes Premier Lorne Calvert. “I am very pleased that former
vice-president Gore is coming to
Y2Kyoto: How Many
Scientists Does It Take To Unscrew All Your Lightbulbs?
Reader "ural" picked up on something in the comments; "I just stuck the list [of contributors to the IPCC WGI Third Assessment Report] into a spreadsheet to see who the 2500+ consensus scientists were ... See what happens when I...
Y2Kyoto: "The
world’s leading economist on climate change"
Heh....
Y2Kyoto: Weekly
World Warming News
Where art thou, climate change champions of the mainstream media? You missed a story. "Expect smaller brains with Global Warming" It seems that colder climates created bigger brains that adapted to cope with cold, but some scientists now fear that...
Y2Kyoto: The
Goracle
Update: Big Al's "
Y2Kyoto: The Smart
Money
Bloomberg The smartest money in global warming stocks may be scurrying to the exit just when the enthusiasm for alternative-energy companies is at an all-time high. While SunPower Corp. and Theolia SA are among more than 180 companies whose shares...
Y2Kyoto: Cancelled
Due To Cold
A North Pole expedition... ...,meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek...
Y2Kyoto: From The
Archives
"There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically..."...
Y2K - From the
wayback machine
We've had a bunch of Y2Kyoto posts recently, so
just as a refresher let's dredge up what some of the experts were saying as Y2K
approached.
Y2Kyoto - Methane
fireballs tear across the sky
The benefits of global warming just keep piling up. Not only will rising oceans shorten your drive to the beach and make those Canadian waters warmer, now you'll get evening entertainment, too. So pull up a chair, open a beer,...
Y2Kyoto: When Bite
Is Worse Than Bark
There's an amusing little anecdote in one of my old breed books about a crafty old Doberman bitch who would confront neighborhood children and bark in their faces until they dropped their ice cream. In today's world, they've locked up...
Y2Kyoto:
Spontaneous Baby Combustion
Across
Y2Kyoto: Suzuki
Foundation Funded By Encana
David Suzuki, on the John Oakley show: I’m not getting any money from my foundation. I’m getting my money, the foundation gets its money, from ordinary people. We don’t take government money, corporations have not been interested in funding us....
Y2Kyoto: The
Inconvenient Concerts
Joe Carter crunches the carbon footprint numbers on
Al Gore's globe-trotting global warming concert tour; * The concert will
produce more CO2 in one day than
Y2Kyoto: Goodbye,
Greenie Dirt Road
When are they gonna come down? Take me back off the land? You should have stayed off my farm It didn't go according to plan You know I can't feed you forever (I didn't RoundUp for you) Won't be present...
Y2Kyoto: The Rain
In Spain
Stays mainly in the made-up world of computer models; The just-released Summary for Policymakers of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (AR4) states that “The frequency of heavy precipitation events has increased over most land areas, consistent...
Y2Kyoto - Space
Mirrors or Stratospheric Dust?
A sure way to tell if environmentalists want to control the climate or if they're really interested in cutting off the economy with fuel rationing is to debate the merits of geo-engineering methods of cooling the planet. Personally, I think...
Y2Kyoto: Turning On
Dr. Did Little
The Globe and Mail is late to the game and a few megatonnes short, but finally providing a few facts beyond those pulled from CBC Fruit Fly Guy press releases; The opposition parties, led by the Liberals, have pushed legislation...
Y2Kyoto: Antarctic
Fruit Flies Likely To Remain Extinct
If current trends continue... A new report on climate over the world's southernmost continent shows that temperatures during the late 20th century did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models. This comes soon after the...
Y2Kyoto: St Peter's
Moon Spots
An article recently published in "Scientific America" makes the important announcement that the climate of the North American continent is gradually getting warmer notwithstanding the influence of certain "Sun Spots". There would appear to be some foundaiton for such a...
Y2Kyoto: Pushback
The "Global Warming Deniers" are beginning to speak up. The chilling effect on free speech; Earlier this year, when a correspondent for the American current affairs show 60 Minutes was asked why his various feature programmes on global warming did...
Y2Kyoto - An
inconvenient Czech President
It appears Czech President Vaclav Klaus has a lukewarm view of the global warming hysteria: Q: IPCC has released its report and you say that the global warming is a false myth. How did you get this idea, Mr President?...
Y2Kyoto: Maurice
And The Media
Finally. Maurice Strong is plopped front and center in the Kyoto debate, and in a Canadian newspaper. That said, there's the sense of an editorial black pen at work; The Liberals' commitment to Kyoto is economic suicide, and I believe...
Y2Kyoto: If You
Don't Like Our Methodology
Wait five minutes; In evaluating industrial impact, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change used GDP estimates based on exchange rates rather than purchasing power: As a result, they assume by the year 2100 that not only South Africans but also...
Y2Kyoto: Save A
Polar Bear
Open a garbage dump. Or trust them to save themselves. Again. The contention of climate alarmists that the late-20th century warming is unprecedented over the past two millennia has been contested with contrary scientific evidence over and over, especially in...
Y2Kyoto: Dion
Liberals Would Control Oil Sand Development
BUMPED (scroll down for new entries) That's the statement by Liberal MP Mark Holland in an interview with Charles Adler a few moments ago. I will get a link to the audio when I can - and would very much...
Y2Kyoto: Where's
Mo?
You know Mo - Maurice Strong, Member of the Privy Council, mentor to Paul Martin Jr,m "architect of Kyoto", former UN special envoy to North Korea, and the best friend a thievin' UN Secretary General ever had... (Beijing, some say,...
Y2Kyoto: The Purity
Test
Here's a freebee for those of you in media who get close enough to Stephane Dion to query him directly. It's one of those questions that is so remarkably simple, so breathtakingly obvious, that I can't believe no one has...
Y2Kyoto: NIMBY
Via Halls of Macademia, a Margaret Wente Q&A at the Globe on climate activism and the Kyoto protocol. Edward Thomas from Kingston Canada writes: Ms. Wente, why is media treatment of climate change dominated by people with little to no...
Reader Tips
Y2Kyoto - I'm with Lorrie Goldstein. There isn't a politician in the nation who believes in climate change doomsday. Climate Catastrophe Cancelled - from the University of Calgary. The New York Times, on the other hand... Two Americas - a...
Y2Kyoto: The
Documentary
* **...
Y2Kyoto: Show Me
The Money
The Marshall Institute Funding Flows for Climate Change Research and Related Activities identifies the "leading suppliers and recipients of government and foundation resources in climate-based research". (Partial view) The top recipients of foundation funding for the 2000-2002 period represent some...
Y2Kyoto - Today's
View From Saskatoon (bumped)
Late Afternoon Update - (via radio) Police and emergency services are asking people not to use cell phones in the area unless necessary, as the system is being overloaded, and causing them problems. There are still a lot of drivers...
Y2Kyoto* - The
Great Headline Hunt
Darcey has been busy collecting the imminent disaster global warming headlines. Best so far - "Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012" That's right - the process will be complete just five years from now....
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