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[diogenes227]

Maybe it's one huge hurricane, tornado, typhoon too many...

DENIAL DRIES UP: AMERICANS FINALLY SEEING THE LIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Looks like Fox News and Congress are becoming ever more intellectually isolated from the American people, perched together on a sinking island of climate denialism.

Stanford University Professor Jon Krosnick led analysis of more than a decade’s worth of poll results for 46 states. The results show that the majority of residents of all of those states, whether they be red or blue, are united in their worries about the climate — and in their desire for the government to take climate action.

“To me, the most striking finding that is new today was that we could not find a single state in the country where climate scepticism was in the majority,” Krosnick told The Guardian.

In every state surveyed for which sufficient data was available:

At least three-quarters of residents are aware that the climate is changing.
At least two-thirds want the government to limit greenhouse gas emissions from businesses.
At least 62 percent want regulations that cut carbon pollution from power plants.
At least half want the U.S. to take action to fight climate change, even if other countries do not.

This map shows the percentage of state residents who believe global warming has been happening:

THE DATA - STATE BY STATE

[Rogerdodger]

AIDS, GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE are/were the biggest threats facing all mankind ... womankind.

They are/were also the biggest source of free money.

Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 26 December 2013 - 08:27 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

The "Biggest Challenge of our lifetime" may be getting loose from the ICE!

'Global warming' scientists trapped in expanding Antarctic ice...
'Blizzard conditions'...

Somewhere far, far to the south where it is summer, a group of global warming scientists are trapped in the Antarctic ice.
If you missed the irony of that situation, it is because much of the mainstream media has glossed over that rather inconvenient bit of hilarity.
The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, “climate scientist”, who has “set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels.” The purpose of the expedition is “to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”
It seems they found out what the “environmental changes taking place in the south.” are.

And just like Al Gore, the primary purpose of the expedition was to promote his "Evil Corporation" called Carbonscape, and get wealthy from another hoax...

When the Mafia did it, it was called a "protection" racket.
It used to be illegal and immoral to demand protection money.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 30 December 2013 - 11:56 AM.

[diogenes227]

Maybe it's one huge hurricane, tornado, typhoon too many...

DENIAL DRIES UP: AMERICANS FINALLY SEEING THE LIGHT ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Looks like Fox News and Congress are becoming ever more intellectually isolated from the American people, perched together on a sinking island of climate denialism.

Stanford University Professor Jon Krosnick led analysis of more than a decade’s worth of poll results for 46 states. The results show that the majority of residents of all of those states, whether they be red or blue, are united in their worries about the climate — and in their desire for the government to take climate action.

“To me, the most striking finding that is new today was that we could not find a single state in the country where climate scepticism was in the majority,” Krosnick told The Guardian.

In every state surveyed for which sufficient data was available:

At least three-quarters of residents are aware that the climate is changing.
At least two-thirds want the government to limit greenhouse gas emissions from businesses.
At least 62 percent want regulations that cut carbon pollution from power plants.
At least half want the U.S. to take action to fight climate change, even if other countries do not.

This map shows the percentage of state residents who believe global warming has been happening:

THE DATA - STATE BY STATE

I'm still astounded that more people in Oklahoma believe in climate change than where I live.

Already in the top five among the states in believing in climate change, I suppose the good citizens of Oklahoma could lead the nation with one more monster tornado, or maybe yet another blistering drought.

Must be getting pretty "hot" there for the last few deniers in the neighborhood.

Happy New Year!

Edited by diogenes227, 30 December 2013 - 04:07 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Climate Poll Con Job: ‘When you don’t like the poll numbers, make up your own poll’ – Media Duped Again By Stanford U. Pollster Jon Krosnick’s Shoddy Agenda Driven Climate Polling

Krosnick Has Been Publicly Reprimanded for poor results and methods by both Gallup & Pew Research
Pew research in 2010 said 'Krosnick's [previous] survey is marred by faulty methodology. ...used words that encouraged a positive response'
Krosnick's previous surveys lumped the phrase 'global warming' in with 'the environment' despite the fact that global warming was the 'lowest concern among all ENVIRONMENTAL issues'

The climate has been changing since the beginning of time...even before Henry Ford invented carbon and SUVs.
Read a book sometime.
ROFLMAO!!!

March 20, 2000
Striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.
Climate expert Dr David Viner, who until recently worked at Britain's world-renowned Climatic Research Unit at the 'famed' University of East Anglia, in 2000 in the Independent made the expert prediction that snow would soon become a "rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said.

December 1, 2013
Up to 20cm snow expected in parts of UK
(Dr. David Viner is stuck in Antarctic summer ice and is unavailable for comment.)
The Christmas from HELL: Biggest winter storm EVER to wreck holidays for millions in UK
Snow is forecast for the UK for winter 2013 until deep into next year.


New Year's Freeze: Chicago expects 10 inches of snow for midnight...

40 below zero in parts of Midwest...

Major Snowstorm Targets 70 Million in Northeast...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 31 December 2013 - 11:04 PM.

[SemiBizz]

Cooling is Warming?

[stocks]

The Party is Over for the IPCC

The real debate has never been about whether greenhouse gases were real, instead it’s about how much global warming will happen. The cheating tactic of pretending the conflict was about something that nearly everyone agrees upon is like a ticking bomb for alarmists. The fuse has been lit. They will pay for their deception eventually.

Science is .. about evidence and conclusions which fall where they will. So when an internationally acclaimed climatologist like Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama at Huntsville dispassionately analyses climate models covering 33 years and concludes that both the surface and satellite observations produce linear temperature trends that are below 87 of the 90 models used in the comparison, he does not politically neutralise his findings. They are empirical fact.

What we now see is the unraveling of years of shoddy science and sloppy journalism. If it wasn’t for independent Murdoch newspapers around the world, the mainstream media would be almost completely captured by the IPCC establishment. That is certainly true in Australia. For six or seven years we were bullied into accepting that the IPCC’s assessment reports were the climate science bible. Its chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, told us the IPCC relied solely on peer-reviewed literature. Then Murdoch papers alerted us to scientific scandals and Donna Laframboise, in her book The Delinquent Teenager, astonished us with her extraordinary revelation that of 18,000 references in the IPCC’s AR4 report, one-third were not peer reviewed. Some were Greenpeace press releases, others student papers and working papers from a conference. In some chapters, the majority of references were not peer reviewed. Many lead authors were inexperienced, or linked to advocate groups like WWF and Greenpeace. Why are we not surprised?


In the meantime, childish personal attacks on those who point out flaws in IPCC reasoning and advice only increase skepticism. They are no substitute for empirical evidence and are well into diminishing returns. The party’s over.


http://joannenova.co...r-for-the-ipcc/

[diogenes227]

When you can't have a Coke today as climate change begins to hit the bottom line:

INDUSTRY AWAKENS TO THE THREAT

Today, after a decade of increasing damage to Coke’s balance sheet as global droughts dried up the water needed to produce its soda, the company has embraced the idea of climate change as an economically disruptive force.

“Increased droughts, more unpredictable variability, 100-year floods every two years,” said Jeffrey Seabright, Coke’s vice president for environment and water resources, listing the problems that he said were also disrupting the company’s supply of sugar cane and sugar beets, as well as citrus for its fruit juices. “When we look at our most essential ingredients, we see those events as threats.”

Coke reflects a growing view among American business leaders and mainstream economists who see global warming as a force that contributes to lower gross domestic products, higher food and commodity costs, broken supply chains and increased financial risk. Their position is at striking odds with the longstanding argument, advanced by the coal industry and others, that policies to curb carbon emissions are more economically harmful than the impact of climate change.

“The bottom line is that the policies will increase the cost of carbon and electricity,” said Roger Bezdek, an economist who produced a report for the coal lobby that was released this week. “Even the most conservative estimates peg the social benefit of carbon-based fuels as 50 times greater than its supposed social cost.”

Some tycoons are no longer listening.

[diogenes227]

Water Wars break out in Texas

Urban versus rural. City slickers versus cowpokes and environmentalists. Too many people versus not enough water. And on top of it all a blistering drought. Texas is "open for business" until dust comes out of the faucets.

There are benefits in the midst of conflict. Cowpokes are beginning to learn it's the environmentalists who may save their butts.

[Rogerdodger]

Prom slogan for Chicago Public Schools: 'This Is Are Story'...



Too bad that this is "ARE" future.
The can't reed or writ.
No nuthin about solar cycles.
But the no all bout golbal warmin, evul capilusum and commune-ity organizin..

Edited by Rogerdodger, 10 June 2014 - 11:15 PM.