Source: hauntingthelibrary

Just when you thought they couldn’t possibly stoop any lower . . .

Sick global warming advocate Cameron Scott of the San Francisco Chronicle’s ‘Thin Green Line’ blog has plumbed new depths of ruthless opportunism by trying to link Haiti’s horrific earthquake to global warming.

Here’s the argument which the article offers:

At the American Geophysical Union meeting late last month, University of Miami geologist Shimon Wdowinski argued that the devastating earthquake a year ago may have been caused by a combination of deforestation and hurricanes. Climate change is spurring more, stronger hurricanes, which are fueled by warm ocean waters.

It works like this: Deforestation leaves hillsides vulnerable to erosion, which hurricanes deliver in spades. Haiti’s hills have waned to a degree, says Wdowinski, that it could affect the stability of the Earth’s crust.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?entry_id=80278#ixzz1A80UAhIE

Yes, you read that right – they’re asking you to believe that a magnitude SEVEN earthquake was caused by “a combination of deforestation and hurricanes” brought about by you wicked, wicked people who drive cars and live in houses. (more…)

Source: Forbes

by Larry Bell

I didn’t receive an invitation to attend the annual holiday festivities sponsored by the Chicago Climate Club this year. Initially concerned that this might possibly be due to something I wrote in this column, a different reason is now apparent. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has shut its doors in response to a different sort of climate change–one producing a cold political Northern that blew into the Windy City from the Great Plains and beyond on Nov. 2.

Consequently, many prominent officers, corporate affiliates and individual shareholders–many of whom you are likely to recognize–won’t receive the public gifts they had hoped.

CCX was launched in 2003 as a “voluntary pilot agency” that aspired to become the New York Stock Exchange for Carbon-emission trading. Its planning was initiated thanks to a $345,000 grant from the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation to Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management to study and test the viability of a future carbon-credit market. (more…)

Cold spell breaks 169-year record in Fort Lauderdale (USA Today, December 7, 2010)
Cold weather causing fish kills in local ponds [Bradenton, FL] (Bradenton Herald, December 7, 2010)
Record-breaking cold this morning [Vero Beach, FL] (WPEC-TV, December 7, 2010)
Treasure Coast [FL] feels record cold, and it’s not over yet (TCPalm, December 7, 2010)
24° Low Sets Record [Jacksonville, FL] (WJXT-TV, December 8, 2010)
Another cold weather record broken [Fort Lauderdale, FL] (The Miami Herald, December 8, 2010)
Another Morning Of Record Breaking Cold [Southern Florida] (WFOR-TV, December 8, 2010)
[FL] Farmers lose crops after record cold (WPEC-TV, December 8, 2010)
Record cold this morning in South Florida (WPEC-TV, December 8, 2010)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11951703

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-08/paris-shuts-eiffel-tower-suspends-flights-as-snow-halts-french-transport.html

Source:  CO2 Science

Subject Index Summary
Ocean Acidification (Effects on Marine Animals: Shellfish): Will the shells of shellfish dissolve away in a high-CO2 world of the future?

Journal Reviews
Some Facts About Corals and Calcification: … and how they may be impacted by the ongoing rise in the air’s CO2 concentration. (more…)

Source:  Climatedepot

Global Warming Summit’s Warm Welcome: Morano told to drive car into garage with engine running and then close the doors

By Marc Morano

[SPPI Note: This is the same arrogant and hapless Joe Romm who claimed that global warming cause the collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis in August of 2007.  For other entries on Romm see here:  http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/commentaries/climate_mccarthyism.pdf

and here: http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/blogwatch/climate_inquisition.pdf

and here:  http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/commentaries/romms_fairy_tales.pdf ]

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[Also see: From King of the World to Chicken of the Sea: Director James Cameron challenges climate skeptics to debate and then bails out at last minute]

Note from Climate Depot’s Executive Editor Marc Morano:

My presentation at Aspen American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) summit on Sunday August 22, 2010 at 5:30 was met by a rude moderator and hostile audience. I was offered the 90 minute time slot to present the skeptical view of man-made climate change after Hollywood director James Cameron’s cowardly final cancellation of a pre-planned and agreed to global warming debate. See here: From King of the World to Chicken of the Sea: Director James Cameron Sets up Debate with Skeptics Then Flees! Cameron Ducks Climate Debate with Breitbart, Morano, & McElhinney (more…)