Global Warming News n Views

Forecasters have issued a string of severe weather warnings covering the
entire eastern half of the country.

There were warnings that night time temperatures could fall as low as -5C
(23F) in some rural areas from Scotland to East Anglia as an icy blast moved
in from the Arctic.

That placed parts of Britain on a footing with the Russian capital where -3C
(27F) was forecast, and several degrees colder than Oslo, Norway, where a
low of -1C (30F) was expected.

The forecast threatens transport chaos and forces millions of elderly people
to turn up the thermostat despite higher heating costs.

If you can’t watch clips online, the Washington Post has a full transcript of the text, but I’d note that Obama offered unambiguous remarks on the issue, criticizing the federal government’s recent failures, touting a federal cap and trade system, promising to “invest $15 billion each year to catalyze private sector efforts to build a clean energy future,” and citing specific annual targets on emission reductions.

The report about an enormous goof in collating global temperature data  in Britain’s Telegraph newspaper - “The world has never seen such freezing heat” - has generated it’s own storm system of hot and cold air, with global warming skeptics declaring it “Another dagger in the heart of global warming” and environmentalists responding that one screw up does not a trend undermine.

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) had declared that October was the warmest on record, despite evidence that some parts of the world were experiencing record or near-record shifts in the opposite direction.  In the U.S., as the Telegraph reported, “the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.”

So what accounted for this startling discrepancy? Here’s how the Telegraph’s Christopher Booker put it:

Its not easy being Green, especially when you cannot even get the data correct.

Global warming eh? Maybe some one would like to explain the “surreal scientific blunder” and the attempted cover up? As Newsbusters states, this “should cause everyone to question the source’s past and future credibility”. The source in question is NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the outfit run by world champion globalarmist James Hansen.

Hansen has in the past stated that “heads of major fossil-fuel companies who spread disinformation about global warming should be ‘tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.’”

Nothing more need be said regarding experts and global warming that from The Other McCain, “Boggles the mind that bloggers know more about climatology than the government ‘experts’ do”.

Here’s the full excerpt from Newsweek’s behind the scenes “Special Election Project” reporting (via HuffPost). Obama is referring to an April 26th 2007 primary debate question from moderator Brian Williams:

Here’s the full excerpt from Newsweek’s behind the scenes “Special Election Project” reporting (via HuffPost). Obama is referring to an April 26th 2007 primary debate question from moderator Brian Williams:

The debates unnerved both candidates. When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, “I don’t consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid question, but let me … answer it.’ So when Brian Williams is asking me about what’s a personal thing that you’ve done [that’s green], and I say, you know, ‘Well, I planted a bunch of trees.’ And he says, ‘I’m talking about personal.

PARIS — Global warming is sowing the seeds of conflict over natural resources all over the world, and military organizations will have to be at the forefront of fighting climate change in order to prevent war, defense experts said at a conference yesterday.

“Rivers that feed Pakistan and Bangladesh go through India. If their flow is reduced to a trickle because of shrinking glaciers, we won’t release water to them, because there won’t be enough for Indian agriculture,” Retired Air Marshal A.K. Singh, the former commander in chief of India’s air force, told participants at the “Importance of Military Organizations in Protecting the Climate” conference.

“You don’t expect Pakistan and Bangladesh to sit quietly,” he said. “They would certainly like to have their share of water, but who decides what their fair share of water is? If you can’t decide, might will decide, and we can end up with a situation of enforcing your will on another nation.