The Political Class

Donald Trump wants Nobel Committee to take back Prize from Al Gore

 

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ConocoPhillips, BP America and Caterpillar pull out of alliance ff businesses and environmental groups pushing for Cap & Tax.

 

Full story here.

ConocoPhillips, BP America and Caterpillar pulled out of a leading alliance of businesses and environmental groups pushing for climate change legislation on Tuesday, citing complaints that the bills under consideration are unfair to American industry. 

The sudden pullout of three corporate giants from a leading alliance of businesses and environmental groups could be the death knell for climate change legislation languishing on Capitol Hill.

ConocoPhillips, BP America and Caterpillar's announced Tuesday they will pull out of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, citing complaints that the bills now in Congress are unfair to American industry.

BP spokesman Ronnie Chappell said Tuesday's announcements are not a statement on the likelihood that climate change legislation will fail.  

"I would never speculate as to what would happen with a pending piece of legislation," Chappell said. 

But he said the bills on the table no longer "conform" with what USCAP envisioned for a climate change bill. He said the legislation -- including one bill that passed the House but is stalled in the Senate -- does not provide adequate protections to U.S. refineries. 

If any bills are passed, they will result in more oil imports, the closure of U.S. refineries and the loss of U.S. jobs. Plus he said it's too hard on the transportation sector.

Is this a sign that large companies are backing away from throwing their cash at non-profits that help shove the man made global warming theme down our throats?

 

 

 

 

 

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Congress shut down - priceless.

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Climategate Scientist admits No Global Warming in last 15 years.

 

The Daily Mail has the astonishing story. Link here.

• Data for vital 'hockey stick graph' has gone missing
• There has been no global warming since 1995
• Warming periods have happened before - but NOT due to man-made changes

Data: Professor Phil Jones admitted his record keeping is 'not as good as it should be'

The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information.

Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers. 

Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was truth in the observations of colleagues that he lacked organisational skills, that his office was swamped with piles of paper and that his record keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.

The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick graph’ used by climate change advocates to support the theory.

Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon.

Waiting to see if ABC, CBS or MSNBC picks up this story and reports any part to the American public.

 

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'Vagina Monologues' creator tells Sarah Palin to look at "Earthquakes and Tsunamis" for proof of Global Warming. Then she has a Pauline Kael moment.

What an amazing exchange. They are so shocked, and I mean shocked, that someone who doesn't believe in man made global warming could actually be allowed to run for vice-president.

Full story here.

ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she doesn't believe in global warming is bizarre.

BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn't believe in it.

ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to walk around the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis.

BEHAR: Right.

ENSLER: And weather changes to just feel it. But I think that idea that she doesn't believe in global warming and she could actually run for vice president, and we have a country where that is possible, it seems insane.

BEHAR: It's unbelievable. It does seem insane and the fact that she has not negated the possibility of running in 2012.

ENSLER: But we have. We have negated the possibility of her winning.

Two huge points to catch:

First, this show aired on February 8,2010. That's after the Climategate emails, Rain Forest debacle and of course the Himalayas scam.  Yet they are still attempting to make a human sacrifice, Sarah Palin, at the feet of the idol of man made global warming cult.

Second, note how freely and with complete openness she exchanges the following point with Behar:

ENSLER: But we have. We have negated the possibility of her winning.

OK - so who's makes up the "we"? Does she mean people like herself and Behar? The news rooms of ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN? They both nodded as if someone just affirmed that Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7th, 1941. That kind of arrogance reminds me of a quote from Pauline Kael:

"Nixon can't have won; no one I know voted for him."

Exactly Pauline. And I think Ensler just channeled your spirit of elitist idiocy.

 

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RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC.

Real American genius. Full article here.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.

"In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today's anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don't own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.

In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington's C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy."

Having shoveled my walk five times in the midst of this past weekend's extreme cold and blizzard, I think perhaps RFK, Jr. should leave weather analysis to the meteorologists instead of trying to attribute every global phenomenon to anthropogenic climate change.

This report just in - Federal Agencies will be closed on Monday, February 8th due to the blizzard conditions.

L.A. Times Headline: "Washington shuts down, buried in record snowfall"

SEC votes to require disclosure of climate change risk to investors.

No really - I'm not making this up. The Washington Post has the story here. AND they did it right before a giant snowstorm hit Washington, D.C.! The largest snowstorm since 1922!

A politically divided Securities and Exchange Commission voted on Wednesday to make clear when companies must provide information to investors about the business risks associated with climate change.

The commission, in a 3 to 2 vote, decided to require that companies disclose in their public filings the impact of climate change on their businesses -- from new regulations or legislation they may face domestically or abroad to potential changes in economic trends or physical risks to a company.

Chairman Mary L. Schapiro and the two Democrats on the commission supported the new requirements, while the two Republicans vehemently opposed them.

"I can only conclude that the purpose of this release is to place the imprimatur of the commission on the agenda of the social and environmental policy lobby, an agenda that falls outside of our expertise and beyond our fundamental mission of investor protection," Republican commissioner Kathleen L. Casey said.

Are these people freaking nuts? How could you possibly measure this - and on what timeline? More relevant though would be a rule that requires companies to calculate the risk to investors of a group of Marxist eco-fascists taking control of The United States of America.

Billzard report as of Saturday, February 6th:

Historic snowstorm rages on...

Former Senator Tom Daschle gets help as his car is stuck in the snowstorm. Video Below. Oh - using Rachel Maddow's language he is former failed presidential primary candidate.

 

 

 

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A&M scientist says that universities + MSM + UN + Hollywood < a few web sites.

Nice math Aggieland. The Houston Chronicle throws together an article that makes the man made global warming Goliath seem out gunned by a few web sites. Full story here and break out the violins. 

The climate surrounding climate change has changed, and not for the better for those seeking to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

First there's public perception. Hurricane activity in every ocean last year was below normal. Global temperatures remain no warmer now than a decade ago. The Arctic Sea ice, at least temporarily, has modestly recovered. And the United States is having one of its coldest winters in a long time.

Then, in November, a slew of e-mails from a British climate center were released that appear to show, at the very best, unseemly behavior by top climate scientists. Branded Climategate, it only resulted in accusations that researchers are willing to cook the books and further eroded public trust in climate science.

You could say that "scientists" have been shoving end of the world hurricanes from hell scenarios down our throats via every available media outlet for years. The public then has a bad "perception" as we went through a season with no hurricanes? No - why would we be skeptical? Reality of hurricanes last years was just the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of your predictions. But maybe it's the public that is wrong.

You could also say that "scientists", the MSM, UN and Hollywood has attempted to convince anyone that refutes man made global warming is just playing with the facts to get the outcome that they want. Once again the public has a bad "perception" as we found out that the says "scientists" that collected the data and made the models actually fudged some of the date and "fixed" the models "to hide the decline". But maybe it's the public that is wrong.

The article drones on about how the current political atmosphere works against the man made global warming science. Please excuse the pun as it is also the irony in the point. They built this disaster movie, literally in the case of Hollywood, and so far it's turned out to be a comedy.

The cherry on this cake of sorrow is the last quote by Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University:

When scientists are up against people who spin information professionally, it's just a wipeout,” Dessler said. “It's an NFL team playing a high school team.”

No wonder A&M football has been that bad recently. The school officials are looking through binoculars backwards. Anyone that wants to place the power of a few web sites and scientists over the combined power of the university system, MSM, Hollywood, United Nations is just nuts.

 

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NASA GISS admits no evidence of man made Global Warming in the U.S., Won’t Be For Decades!

 

There’s a phrase that is more suited for MTV but it fits - Oh snap! Full story here.

It is amazing what you find when you pull back the PR spin from public facade of the AGW crowd and they become honest about the global warming canard. In my previous post I discovered Jim Hansen of NASA GISS noting the US temperature data is so noisy (yet it is the most accurate, most measured in the world) that you cannot pull any conclusions from it, and basically the 1930’s and 2000’s are statistically the same temperature!

I thought that was a pretty stunning admission. Until I read further into the email trail up and Judicial Watch (page 71 of 215) and discovered this from August 15, 2007 (click to enlarge)

 

 

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As the Global Warming movement collapses, activists already "Test-Marketing" the next Eco-Fear!

Part of me wants to laugh at a story like this but when bureaucrats and science mix together you get insanity. Full story here.

As the man-made global warming fear movement collapses and the climate establishment lay in a Climategate ridden tatters, many are asking what next? (For latest on climate movement's demise go to www.ClimateDepot.com)

As man-made global warming fears enter the ashbin of history, what will environmentalists, UN activists and politicians do to fill the void of a failed eco-scare?

Well, wonder no more....

Some forward thinking green activists and even the UN climate Chief have already taken up the task of test-marketing the next eco-scares to replace man-made global warming.

One of the most prominent eco-scares now being quietly promoted behind man-made climate fears is the allegedly "growing" nitrous oxide (a.k.a. "laughing gas") threat to the planet. See: Time for next eco-scare already?! 'Earth's growing nitrogen threat': 'It helps feed a hungry world, but it's worse than CO2'The Christian Science Monitor - January 12, 2010 - Excerpt: Nitrous oxide is nearly 300 times as potent as carbon dioxide – considered the leading cause of climate change – and the third most threatening greenhouse gas overall.

continued here...

 

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