30 New (2017) Scientific Papers Crush The Hockey Stick Graph And ‘Global’-Scale Warming Claims

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The Globe Has Not Been Warming…So Why Is It Called ‘Global’ Warming? There were at least 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2016 demonstrating that  Today’s Warming Isn’t Global, Unprecedented, Or Remarkable. As of the end of January, another 17 papers had already been published in 2017.  17 New (2017) Scientific Papers Affirm Today’s Warming […]

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March 9, 2017 at 02:47AM

White House: Obama’s Climate Plan Is Gone — And There’s No Replacement

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The White House intends to unravel the Clean Power Plan without providing a replacement, according to a source briefed on the issue.

An executive order expected to be released next week also instructs the Justice Department to effectively withdraw its legal defense of the climate rule in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The move aligns the White House with about two dozen Republican state attorneys general who are challenging the way the rule restricts greenhouse gas emissions at power plants.

The result, if successful, would mean the case is “frozen in place,” the source said, preventing the D.C. Circuit, which has six judges appointed by Democrats and four by Republicans, from issuing an opinion this spring. Other legal experts say the case could continue if states or other groups go on defending the rule.

“Justice goes to the court and says … ‘Don’t waste your time trying to put together an opinion when the legal basis for the case that you’re reviewing could potentially go away,’” the source said. “Normally, a court will grant that. There’s no guarantee.”

It was unclear until now if the Trump administration would “repeal and replace” the Clean Power Plan, or just set upon a path to undo it. Some had anticipated that the Trump administration might pursue an alternative and much less stringent rule, but the executive order will only call for the withdrawal of the regulation.

That raises questions about whether EPA would fail to satisfy legal requirements to regulate carbon dioxide and other climate pollutants.

The agency in 2009, responding to the Supreme Court, determined that greenhouse gases endanger human health. That requires EPA to regulate emissions, and the agency did that by promulgating the Clean Power Plan.

“I think, as a matter of law, that carbon is a pollutant has been settled,” said Christine Todd Whitman, who served as EPA administrator under President George W. Bush. “EPA has to act once you have that kind of a finding.”

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March 9, 2017 at 02:16AM

SoICanBreathe

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By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Stewgreen

 

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I took a passing look at the BBC’s new “So I Can Breathe” series on air pollution the other day. Just the title alone suggests  this will not be an objective, factual set of programmes.

The BBC blurb shows just how comprehensive the propaganda is:

 

 

From Monday 6 March to 12 March the BBC will broadcast a special week of stories titled SoICanBreathe which looks at some of the different ways the world is seeking to reduce air pollution. Stories will run across BBC News in the UK, local TV and radio, World Service radio, World News, online and social media.

Reporting from across the UK and around the world, SoICanBreathe will discuss the causes and impacts of air pollution and will draw on ideas on how to solve this issue. It will look for evidence that these solutions are effective and report on any limitations.

Stories will be brought together online at http://ift.tt/2namDT6, featuring a range of ideas on how to tackle air pollution from Chinese solar architecture to banning wood burning stoves in the Alps, a gallery of crowd-sourced selfies with solutions and a quiz.

Head of Editorial Partnerships and Special Projects, Emily Kasriel has written a blog for About The BBC introducing the series.

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The series editor is Emily Kasriel, Head of Editorial Partnerships and Special Projects. Rather sinisterly, she refers on her blog to:

We know that audiences are interested to find out about solutions to problems.  Their interest has been a driver behind the Solutions-Focused Journalism initiative I’ve been running across BBC News. 

 We are used to propaganda from the BBC, but is not “Solutions-Focused Journalism” crossing the line into outright political campaigning?

 

Before anybody is tempted into giving her the benefit of the doubt, take a look at her Linkedin entry:

 

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The Skoll Foundation? This is how they describe themselves:

 

 

Skoll are absolutely clear – they want to drive “transformative change”, and in doing so “disrupt the status quo”.

 

Wikipedia has this description of social entrepreneurship:

Social entrepreneurship is the use of the techniques by start up companies and other entrepreneurs to develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues.^[1] This concept may be applied to a variety of organizations with different sizes, aims, and beliefs.^[2] For-profit entrepreneurs typically measure performance using business metrics like profit, revenues and increases in stock prices, but social entrepreneurs are either non-profits or blend for-profit goals with generating a positive "return to society" and therefore must use different metrics. Social entrepreneurship typically attempts to further broad social, cultural, and environmental goals often associated with the voluntary sector^[3] in areas such as poverty alleviation, health care and community development.

 

In other words, Skoll wants to disrupt the capitalist system and replace it with a socialist model.

 

Now this might all be very worthy, but what is a senior BBC editor doing getting involved with such a blatantly and overtly political group.

Her Linkedin profile says she is currently a Senior Advisor to Skoll. Such a role should surely automatically bar her from any BBC work that could be could in any way be compromised, and that must certainly include this latest series.

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March 9, 2017 at 01:54AM

Revised Temperature prediction

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Following my series on Understanding the global temperature. I have realised that it is likely that a substantial part of recent warming – particularly northern hemisphere land-based temperatures have risen due to air plane contrails. Thus for forecast I made … Continue reading →

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March 9, 2017 at 01:03AM