Climate Stuff

He previously painted some of the direst visions of the effects of climate change. In 2006, in an article in the U.K.’s Independent newspaper, he wrote that “before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.”
However, the professor admitted in a telephone interview with msnbc.com that he now thinks he had been “extrapolating too far”…
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“The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.
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“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.”

James Lovelock, author of the Gaia theory and former alarmmist. He still believes the climate is warming (as do most skeptics), he is just not in the Chicken Little camp with Bill McKibben and Michael Mann et all.

Bowing to pressure from ADM, Cargill, Growth Energy and other Big Ethanol lobbyists, Lisa Jackson’s Environmental Protection Agency has decided to allow ethanol manufacturers to register as suppliers of E15 gasoline. E15 contains 15% ethanol, rather than currently mandated 10% blends.

The next lobbying effort will focus on getting E15 registered as a fuel in individual states and persuading oil companies to offer it at service stations. But according to the Associated Press and Washington Post, Team Obama already plans to provide taxpayer-financed grants, loans and loan guarantees to “help station owners install 10,000 blender pumps over the next five years” and promote the use of biofuels.
Pummeled by Obama policies that have helped send regular gasoline prices skyrocketing from $1.85 a gallon when he took office to $4.00 today – many motorists will welcome any perceived “bargain gas.” E15 will likely reduce their obvious pump pain by several cents a gallon, thus persuading people to fill up their cars, trucks and maybe even boats, lawnmowers and other equipment with the new blends.
That would be a huge mistake.

Because...


With Climate Change going belly up, not quickly enough, but the rats are abandoning the ship, not to worry.  The IPCC, the UN, and others have a new cause to keep them in the forefront of telling others how to live their lives. From Climate Depot:

• Oh No! 'World Governments Establish Biodiversity Panel - Scientists from more than 90 countries will unite to create an UN IPCC-like body to assess Earth's fragile ecosystems'
  
• 'The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES) will be responsible for producing international scientific assessments on issues such as ocean acidification & pollination...Governments will make the final decisions as to which scientists will sit on the panel, but scientific bodies such as DIVERSITAS will be invited to make nominations'

• Reactions to 'Biodiversity Panel': 'When govts select scientists, it ceases to be science. I would like to see separation of science & state. Science with a political agenda is not science'
  
• More reactions: 'I smell another boondoggle!! The IPCC worked out so well: 1. Meet at an exotic expensive locale 2. Eat at an exotic expensive locale 3. Drink at an exotic expensive locale 4. Send taxpayers the bill 5. Attempt to shame them into submission when they question what you do there 6. Repeat as many times

• Climate Depot's round up of UN's 'sustainable development' efforts: UN now says case for saving species 'more powerful than climate change'

during ClimateGate, the source of the emails, University of East Anglia, hired a PR firm (one that has since been in trouble for some phone hacking)- although they hired them with taxpayer funds, they did not want to tell taxpayers how much it cost them. The FOI Commission, or what amounts to that position in Engand, ruled against them. Now we know.