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Clinton to Visit Middle East in Move to Defuse Gaza Conflict

President Obama sent Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Middle East on Tuesday to try to defuse the conflict in Gaza, the White House announced.

Clinton to Visit Israel in Effort to Defuse Gaza Conflict – NYTimes.com

The last time I saw a headline like that was in the year 2000, when Bill Clinton went to seal the final peace deal, and left with the Intifada raging and suicide bombers detonating on Jerusalem buses every other day.

The Washington Post says :

We’re on pace for 4°C of global warming. Here’s why that terrifies the World Bank.

Over the years at the U.N. climate talks, the goal has been to keep future global warming below 2°C. But as those talks have faltered, emissions have kept rising, and that 2°C goal is now looking increasingly out of reach. Lately, the conversation has shifted toward how to deal with 3°C of warming. Or 4°C. Or potentially more.

We’re on pace for 4°C of global warming. Here’s why that terrifies the World Bank.

No were not. There has been no warming for over 15 years. We aren’t on pace for anything. People can have whatever conversations they want, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t complete morons.

Wood for Trees: Interactive Graphs

The hockey team just piles on one lie after another about temperature and sea level and hurricanes and tornadoes and snow and ice and everything else. We have entered a new dark age.

You could make a fortune preying on neurotic lefties – if you could stomach listening to them.

Ethical living: Can I fly with a clear conscience?

I’d like to travel by plane, but it seems iniquitous that air fares are so low. Can you offer me any reasons why I might fly with a clear conscience?

It is time for the aviation industry to pay the ferryman. Hitherto flying has soared above climate change regulation but from 30 April 2013 the EU dictates that it must sign up to emissions trading. In common with other heavily polluting industries, this means putting a cap on CO² emissions for planes arriving or departing from EU airports. Airlines would trade in pollution permits on an aviation carbon market. The theory is that fleets that are low carbon would be rewarded and this would incentivise airlines to invest in eco-friendly fleets.

Can I fly with a clear conscience? | Ethical living | Environment | The Observer

I presume that an eco-friendly fleet would recycle methane from the toilet straight into the engine. Another possibility is that every tenth flight would simply drop out of the sky. Or maybe they could burn corn instead of sending it to Africa for children to eat?

The Heidi Channel reported this morning that the weather in Alaska is balmy, due to missing Arctic ice.

Weather Forecast – USA, US – Local & Long Range | Weather Underground

Q. How do you know when a climate alarmist is lying? A. Their keyboard is clicking.

Index of /pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/

Index of /pub/data/ghcn/daily/hcn/

The graph above shows the full year to date adjustments to US temperature data being performed in the new USHCN v2.5 data set. The upwards adjustments for 2012 blow away the previous record. Note the sharp spike upwards since 2007. The total upwards adjustment relative to 1903 is more than two degrees!

NOAA has apparently been tasked with making 2012 the hottest year ever, regardless of the actual temperatures. Kudos to them for throwing out any need for integrity or honesty in reporting temperature data. The planet must be saved from global warming, even if it isn’t warming.

Their graph shows that there have only been three years when Americans knew how to read thermometers (2005-2007) and that since 2007 we have been getting exponentially more incompetent at recording temperatures.

There are no checks and balances in this system, and NOAA knows that they can get away with anything in the current political environment.

In 2009, Trenberth told his cronies us that the earth is warming much slower than expected

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t

– Kevin Trenberth  October 12, 2009

ClimateGate FOIA grepper! – travesty

In 2012, after three more years of no warming, Trenberth says that Earth is likely to warm faster than expected.

November 8, 2012

Future warming likely to be on high side of climate projections, research finds

NCAR scientists John Fasullo and Kevin Trenberth, who co-authored the study, reached their conclusions by analyzing how well sophisticated climate models reproduce observed relative humidity in the tropics and subtropics.

Future warming likely to be on high side of climate projections, research finds

Climate science has nothing to do with science.

Tornado Climatology

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You can’t make this stuff up.

Twitter / ClimateCentral: In the wake of record Arctic …

Balmy? Temperatures across most of Alaska are running far below normal

10-Day Temperature Outlook

and are extremely cold in northern Alaska too.

 Barrow Sea Ice Webcam

h/t to Marc Morano

Many New York residents are still freezing in the dark, and Harvard students fantasize that is a good thing.

Twitter / billmckibben: Wow–Harvard students vote …

h/t to Marc Morano