Amazon rain forests were unaffected from once-in-a-century drought in 2005

Written by OneIndia | 12 March 2010

Map location of the Amazon Basin.

A new NASA-funded study has concluded that the Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary to a previously published report and claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"We found no big differences in the greenness level of these forests between drought and non-drought years, which suggests that these forests may be more tolerant of droughts than we previously thought," said Arindam Samanta, the study's lead author from Boston University.

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IPCC Rainforest eco-tastrophe claim confirmed as bunk

Written by Lewis Page, The Register | 12 March 2010

Amazon Basin forest

Official UN website still shows it as fact, though

More bad news today for the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as another of its extravangant ecopocalypse predictions, sourced from green campaigners, has been confirmed as bunk by scientists.

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Unmasking the Global Warming Belief System

Written by Jay Lehr, Dakota Voice | 12 March 2010

If you care about twenty-first century society, you must read Steve Goreham’s new book, Climatism. In my 55-year career as a scientist I have written more than 1,000 book reviews for various journals. No book has pleased me more than this one.

Unmasking a Dangerous System
After The Heartland Institute’s Third International Conference on Climate Change in March 2009, Goreham decided to summarize, between the covers of a single book, everything everyone should know on this topic. In 390 pages of narrative, including 133 outstanding charts and illustrations plus 1,134 references from countless articles, he has succeeded.

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Outlook cloudy on climate

Written by Eric Deggans, St. Petersburg Times | 12 March 2010

The question comes at Denis Phillips several times a day, delivered by e-mail from curious viewers struggling with the longest cold snap the Tampa Bay area has seen in a while.

From their end of the send button, it's a simple inquiry. But Phillips, chief meteorologist at Tampa ABC affiliate WFTS-Ch. 28, knows there is no such thing when the question involves whether global warming actually exists.

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Traffic Fatalities Hit Record Low

Written by Henry Payne, Planet Gore | 12 March 2010

As with global warming, perpetuating Michael Crichton’s proverbial “state of fear” is crucial to advancing the public-safety lobby’s auto-regulatory state. Over the last 15 years, we’ve been told that:

— Ditching the federal 55-MPH speed limit would cause carnage.
— Increased sales of unstable, rollover-prone SUVs would cause carnage.
— Cell phone use in vehicles would cause carnage.
— And now that automakers’ conversion to electronic controls (like Toyota gas pedals) have caused carnage.

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Those Climate Pugilists

Written by Paul Chesser, American Spectator | 12 March 2010

Stephen H. Schneider, King of Spin

Pity the poor Climategaters. The staid were played. Gentlepersons were violated. And the billion-dollar global warming science complex can't compete with spunky skeptics.

Those are some of the complaints registered in newly disclosed emails among members of the National Academy of Sciences, whose messages were mysteriously made public last week via the Washington Times. Some call it Climategate II; Whinergate is more apropos.

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Climategate: Once Respected Nature Now Staffed By Moaning Ninnies

Written by Christopher Monckton, PJTV | 12 March 2010

Where was Nature when James Hansen demanded climate-extremists be put on trial for “high crimes against humanity”

The once-respected science journal Nature recently published a whining editorial to the effect that climate scientists are not criminals, really; that attacks on them by increasingly-skeptical news media are soooo unfair; and that the fundamental science showing that the planet is doomed unless the economies of the West are shut down at once is unchallengeable.

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Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up: March 11, 2010

Written by The Daily Bayonet | 11 March 2010

We're apologizing ahead of time for
this illustration.

It might not be the Rolling Stone, but Al Gore made the cover of the Weekly Standard and he’s… naked.  Pass the eye bleach.  Methane is the latest deadly thing in the atmosphere, an ABC head accuses the media of groupthink on global warming and the Internet never forgets what warmist’s once said.

Part One: Al Gore & Friends

Al Gore, the spiritual leader of the AGW cult, has had another rough week.  As some openly call for a replacement High Priest, others dare to question whether the old bone-caster’s refusal to walk the talk might be a bit of a credibility problem:

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Climate Change 'Quagmire'

Written by Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal | 11 March 2010

India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh

Why India's environment minister doesn't like Al Gore's approach to global warming.

Climate-change Cassandras are prone to warning that unless governments take draconian action to limit carbon emissions, the world will suffer grievously and the poor will be hardest hit. Yet here in India, home to more poor people than any other country, a left-of-center government is sounding less than convinced by these prophets of doom, to say nothing of their prescriptions for salvation.

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For Full Disclosure Of Climate-Change Risks

Written by Paul Driessen, Investor's Business Daily | 11 March 2010

The U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission headquarters

The recent Securities and Exchange Commission "interpretive guidance" on climate change says companies should disclose not only potential risks from climate change, but also risks from climate-related legislation, regulation, international accords and effects on business trends.

Socially responsible companies will seize the opportunity to educate citizens, protect the interests of investors, employees and customers, and safeguard the well-being of communities they serve. Here are some of the questions they should be examining:

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Going, going, gone? Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop

Written by Frank Newport, Gallup | 11 March 2010

Gallup's annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientists themselves are uncertain about its occurrence. In response to one key question, 48% of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41% in 2009 and 31% in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.

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Questions about research slow climate change efforts

Written by Brian Winter, USA Today | 11 March 2010

Geologist Leighton Steward: "We've all been kind of giggling as we watch this thing fall apart."

The violent threats are not what bother Michael Mann the most. He's used to them.

Instead, it's the fact that his life's work — the effort to stop global warming — has been under siege since last fall. That's when Mann suddenly found himself in the middle of the so-called "climategate" scandal, in which more than 1,000 e-mails among top climate scientists — including Mann — were obtained illegally by hackers and published on the Internet.

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