Monthly Archives: September 2013

NOAA warns Arctic ice is melting has reached new ‘striking’ record | The Raw Story The 2013 record is a record gain in ice, not a record loss of ice. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008

Things aren’t exactly warming up between the Obama administration and Vladimir Putin, even as President Obama arrives in St. Petersburg for the G-20 summit. Putin called Obama Secretary of State John Kerry a liar over Kerry’s testimony this week before … Continue reading →

Abbott has promised his first legislative act as prime minister will be to repeal it. He promises to replace it with a capped $3.2bn fund for competitive grants to pay for voluntary carbon dioxide abatement, which independent modelling has found … Continue reading →

The remarkably quiet US fire season continues, with the amazing statistic that there are no fires burning in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico or Texas. National Interagency Fire Center

I recently wrote about geoengineering as a strategy to deal with climate change and carbon dioxide emissions. That drew comments from people who confuse this scientific process with the unscientific theory of “chemtrails.” Some also claimed the column supported geoengineering, … Continue reading →

One point on which the French and American summaries differ is the number of people who died. The French said at least 281 people were killed, while the United States said the death toll was 1,429. The French summary said … Continue reading →

Bloomberg: Obama to classify CO2 as toxic pollutant Bloomberg News reports that “Barack Obama will classify carbon dioxide as a dangerous pollutant that can be regulated should he win the presidential election on Nov. 4, opening the way for new … Continue reading →

O’REILLY: Libya a mess. Iran is defiant. CARVILLE: Come on, look. When is all of this — when was it not? I mean, Gaddafi is gone. It is a mess, I agree with that. But, you know what, it’s a … Continue reading →

Obama sees supporting terror as being a moral imperative for the US. He started his political career at terrorist Bill Ayer’s house, and his term for terrorists is “freedom fighters.” ????? – ?????? “?????” ??? “??? ???” Popular and widely … Continue reading →

The rumors of the Arctic’s demise were exaggerated. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.anom.1979-2008