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Obama promised America that he loved coal – during the campaign.

By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, September 19, 9:29 PM WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will press ahead Friday with tough requirements for new coal-fired power plants, moving to impose for the first time strict limits on the pollution blamed for global warming.

The proposal would help reshape where Americans get electricity, away from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner sources of energy. It’s also a key step in President Barack Obama’s global warming plans, because it would help end what he called “the limitless dumping of carbon pollution” from power plants.

Proposal to curb global warming pollution from new power plants dims coal’s future – The Washington Post

I’m more concerned about the limitless dumping of bovine excrement from Obama’s teleprompter.

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

Hansen Study: Climate Sensitivity Is High, Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Make Most Of Planet ‘Uninhabitable’ | ThinkProgress

The Arctic just had its coldest summer on record.

h/t to John B., M.D

NOAA warned us this was going to happen

Dust Bowl Days: Historic U.S. Drought Projected To Persist For Months, Worsened By Thin Western Snowpack | ThinkProgress

Boulder has had its snowiest and wettest January through September on record.

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past – Environment – The Independent

Abbott may have decimated the Climate Commission, but my work will go on | Tim Flannery | Comment is free | theguardian.com

On the one hand, they warn of 30C warming and 20 metres of sea level rise.

At the same time, they have to cheat for every tenth of a degree warming and every tenth of a millimetre sea level rise.

One of the funniest cheats is the GIA adjustment to sea level, which is how much sea level would have risen – without glacial rebound.

One of the more bizarre misconceptions in the alarmist community is that there used to be a lot of very old sea ice in the Arctic.

Arctic sea ice rarely lasts much more than about five years, because strong winter winds blow it all out into the Atlantic sooner or later, where it melts.

During times when the winds are strong (like 1988-1996) a lot of thick ice gets lost during the winter. In recent years the winter winds have been lighter, and less ice has been lost in the winter. That is why we are seeing the amount of older ice increase since 2009.

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Our calculated global warming in this case is 16°C, with warming at the poles approximately 30°C. Calculated warming over land areas averages approximately 20°C.

“Our calculated global warming in this case is 16°C”

Antarctica to become the new Hawaii.

Hansen appears desperate to destroy the world’s economy. I wonder who is paying him to do this?

A report from the UK Energy Research Centre also shows the number of those who resolutely do not believe in climate change has more than quadrupled since 2005.

Dr. Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientist and author of Climate Confusion, argues in his influential blog the UN report shows scientists are being forced to “recognise reality”.

He said: “We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.”

What climate change? Fewer people than EVER believe the world is really warming up | UK | News | Daily Express