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So... Less humans... Less evil cars on the roads... Less profits for evil Exxon... Better planet. When you reject global warming, you push al gore believers into doing their best to save the planet, for us...




It's time for THE LIST.

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm

A complete list of things caused by global warming

Apologies for a temporary delay in updating the dead link list

AIDS, Afghan poppies destroyed, African holocaust, aged deaths, poppies more potent, Africa devastated,  Africa in conflict, African aid threatened,  aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air pockets, air pressure changes,  airport farewells virtual, airport malaria, Agulhas current, Alaskan towns slowly destroyed, Al Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, allergy increase, allergy season longer, alligators in the Thames, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end,  amphibians breeding earlier (or not),  anaphylactic reactions to bee stings,  ancient forests dramatically changed, animals head for the hills, animals shrink,  Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk,   anxiety treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear,  Arctic tundra lost, Arctic warming (not), a rose by any other name smells of nothing, asteroid strike risk, asthma, Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty,   atmospheric circulation modified, attack of the killer jellyfish, avalanches reduced, avalanches increased,  Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water,  bananas grow, barbarisation, bats decline,  beer and bread prices to soar, beer better,  beer worse, beetle infestation, beef shortage,  bet for $10,000, big melt faster, billion dollar research projects, billion homeless, billions face risk, billions of deaths,  bird loss accelerating, bird populations dying, bird strikes, bird visitors drop, birds confused, birds decline (Wales), birds driven north, birds face longer migrations, birds on long migrations threatened,  birds return early, birds shrink(Aus), birds shrink (USA), bittern boom ends, blackbirds stop singing, blackbirds threatened, Black Hawk down,  blizzards, blood contaminated, blue mussels return, borders redrawn,  bluetongue, brains shrink, brewers droop, bridge collapse (Minneapolis), Britain one big city, Britain Siberian, Britain's bananas, British monsoon,  brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic plague,  Buddhist temple threatened,  building collapse, building season extension, bushfires,   butterflies move north, butterflies reeling, butterfly saved, carbon crimes, caribou decline, Cambodian sex trade fuelled, camel deaths,  cancer, cancer deaths in England, cannibalism,  cataracts, cats more amorous, caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened,  chagas disease, childhood insomnia, children's mental health, chocolate shortage, Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud increase,  clownfish get lost, coast beauty spots lost, cockroach migration, cod go south,  coffee threatened, coffee berry borer, coffee berry disease, cold climate creatures survive,  cold spells, cold spells (Australia), colder waters  (Long Island), cold wave (India), cold weather (world), cold winters, computer models, conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia,  consumers foot the bill, coral bleaching, coral fish suffer, coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, coral reefs twilight,  cost of trillions, cougar attacks, crabgrass menace,  cradle of civilisation threatened, creatures move uphill, crime increase, crocodile sex, crocodiles driven from water, crops devastated, crop failures increase, cross-breeding, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, cryptococcal disease, curriculum change,  cyclones (Australia),   damselflies forced back to UK, danger to kid's health, Darfur, Dartford Warbler plague,  daylight increase, deadly virus outbreaks, death rate increase (US), death rate drop, deaths to reach 6 million, decades of progress at risk, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, depression, desert advance,  desert retreat,  destruction of the environment,  dig sites threatened,  disasters, diseases move north, diving reefs closed, dog disease,  dozen deadly diseases - or not, drought,    ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, dust doubles,  earlier pollen season,  Earth axis tilt, Earth biodiversity crisis, Earth crumbling, Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming, Earth lopsided, Earth melting, Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth past point of no return, Earth slowing down,  Earth spins faster, Earth to explode, earth upside down,  earthquakes, earthquakes redux, El Niño intensification, end of the world as we know it, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis, English villages lost, equality threatened, Europe simultaneously baking and freezing,  eutrophication, everyplace hit hardest, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (apes, human, civilisation, koalas, lizards,  logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod,  penguins, pikas, polar bears,   possums,  walrus,  tigers,  toads, turtles, pandas,  penguins, plants, ladybirds, rhinoceros, salmon, trout,  wild flowers, woodlice,  a million species, half of all animal and plant species, mountain species,  not polar bears, barrier reef, leaches, salamanders, tropical insects, flowers) experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage,  famine, farmers benefit, farmers go under, farm output boost, farming soil decline,  fashion disaster, fever, figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fires fanned in Nepal, fish bigger, fish catches drop, fish downsize,   fish deaf,  fish feminised, fish get lost, fish head north, fish lopsided, fish shrinking,  fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, flesh eating disease, flies on Everest,  flood patterns change, floods,  floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants, flood preparation for crisis, flora dispersed, Florida economic decline, flowers in peril, flowers wilt, flying squirrels move up, fog increase in San Francisco, fog decrease in San Francisco, food poisoning, food prices rise, food prices soar, food production increased,  food safety affected, food security threat (SA), football team migration,   forest decline, forest expansion, foundations threatened, foundations increase grants, frog with extra heads, frosts, frostbite, frost damage increased,   fungi fruitful, fungi invasion, fungi rot the world, games change, Garden of Eden wilts, geese decline in Hampshire, genetic changes, genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, geysers imperiled, giant icebergs (Australia), giant icebergs (Arctic), giant oysters invade,  giant pythons invade, giant squid migrate, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes, glacial retreat,   glacier grows (California), glaciers on Snowden, glacier wrapped, glass melts, global cooling,  glowing clouds,  golf course to drown, golf Masters wrecked, grain output drop (China), grain output stagnating (India), grandstanding, grasslands wetter, gravity shift,  Great Barrier Reef 95% dead,  great tits cope, greening of the North,  Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss, haggis threatened, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome,    harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, health affected, health of children harmed, health risks, health risks (even more), heart deaths, heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia), heat waves, hedgehogs bald, hibernation affected,   hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late,  homeless 50 million, home runs, hornets,  human development faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced, human health risk, human race oblivion, human rights violations, hurricanes,  hurricane reduction, hurricanes fewer, hurricanes more intense, hurricanes not,  hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, hyphthermia deaths, ice age, ice hockey extinct, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, icebergs, ice sheet tipping point,  illegal immigration, illness and death, inclement weather, India drowning, infrastructure failure (Canada),  indigestion, industry threatened, infectious diseases,  inflation in China, insect explosion, insect invasion, insurance premium rises, Inuit displacement, Inuit poisoned, Inuit suing, invasion of alien worms, invasion of Antarctic aliens,  invasion of Asian carp, invasion of cane toads, invasion of caterpillars,  invasion of cats,  invasion of crabgrass, invasion of herons, invasion of jellyfish, invasion of king crabs, invasion of lampreys, invasion of midges, invasion of pine beetles, invasion of rats (China), invasion of slugs,  island disappears, islands sinking, Italy robbed of pasta, itchier poison ivy, Japan's cherry blossom threatened,  jellyfish explosion, jets fall from sky,  Kew Gardens taxed, kidney stones, killer cornflakes, killing us, kitten boom, koalas leaves inedible, koalas under threat, krill decline,  lake empties, lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, large trees decline, lawsuits increase, lawsuit successful,  lawyers' income increased (surprise surprise!),  lawyers want more, legionnaires' surge,  lives lost, lizards super intelligent, lives saved, lobsters grow,  Loch Ness monster dead, locust plagues suppressed, low oxygen zones threaten sea life, lush growth in rain forests,  Lyme disease, Major vegetation shifts,  Malaria,   Malaria decline,  malnutrition, mammoth dung melt, mammoth ivory bonanza, manatees battle, mango harvest fails, Maple production advanced, Maple syrup shortage, marmots fatter, marine diseases, marine food chain decimated, Meaching (end of the world), Meat eating to stop, Mediterranean rises, megacryometeors, Melanoma, Melanoma decline, mental health decline, mental illness, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, methane runaway, melting permafrost, Mexican climate migrant flood, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration,  migratory birds huge losses, microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly, milk production lost, minorities hit, monkeys at risk,  monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows, monuments imperiled, moose dying, more bad air days,   more research needed, mortality increased, mosquitoes adapting, mountain (Everest) shrinking,  mountaineers fears,  mountains break up, mountains green and flowering,   mountains taller, mortality lower, Mubarak fall, murder rate increase,  musk ox decline, Myanmar cyclone, narwhals at risk, narwhals suffocate, National Parks damaged, National security implications, native wildlife overwhelmed, natural disasters  quadruple, neurological diseases,  new islands, next ice age, NFL threatened, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent clouds, no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom, oaks dying,  oaks move north,  obesity, oblivion, ocean acidification, ocean acidification faster, ocean dead spots, ocean dead zones unleashed, ocean deserts expand, ocean salt extremes, ocean oxygen crisis,  ocean waves speed up,  Olympic Games to end, opera house to be destroyed, outdoor hockey threatened,   owls turn brown, oxygen depletion zones, oyster herpes, ozone repair slowed, ozone rise, peat bogs problem, peat bogs no problem, penguin chicks frozen, penguin chicks smaller, penguins in the dark, penguin populations devastated, penguins replaced by jellyfish, penguins sex lives affected, personal carbon rationing, pest outbreaks, pests increase, pets in danger, phenology shifts,  pines decline, pirate population decrease, pirates run rampant, plankton blooms,   plankton plummeting, plankton wiped out, plants lose protein, plants march north, plants move uphill,  polar bears aggressive, polar bears cannibalistic, polar bears deaf,  polar bears drowning,  polar bears fewer cubs,  polar tours scrapped,  pollination halved, porpoise astray, profits collapse, psychiatric illness,  psychological effects,  puffin decline, pushes poor women into prostitution, rabid bats,  radars taken out, rail network threatened,  railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rainforest destruction,  rape wave, refugees,  reindeer endangered, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses, resorts disappear, respiratory diseases worsen,  rice less fragrant, rice production fall, rice threatened, rice yields crash,  rift on Capitol Hill, rioting and nuclear war,   river flow impacted, river rerouted, rivers raised, road accidents, roads wear out, robins rampant,   rocky peaks crack apart, roof of the world a desert, rooftop bars, Ross river disease,    Russia under pressure, salinity reduction, salinity increase,  Salmonella,  salmon stronger, sardine run unpredictable, satellites accelerate, Schmallenberg virus,  school closures, sea level rise, sea level rise faster, sea snot, seals mating more, seismic activity, sewer bills rise, severe thunderstorms, sex change, sexual dysfunction,  sexual promiscuity, shark attacks, sharks booming, sharks hybridise, sharks moving north, sheep change colour, sheep shrink, shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered,  shrimp sex problems, shrinking ponds, shrinking sheep,  shrinking shrine, Sidney Opera House wiped out, ski resorts threatened, slavery, skinks impacted, slow death,  smaller brains,  smog, snowfall decrease, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy,  snow thicker,  soaring food prices, societal collapse, soil change, soil subsidence, songbirds change eating habits, sour grapes, soybean crop to drop, space junk increase, space problem, spectacular orchids, spider danger in UK, spider bites to increase, spiders getting bigger, spiders invade Scotland,  squid aggressive giants, squid larger, squid population explosion, squid tamed, squirrels reproduce earlier, starfish sperm eaten by parasites, stingray invasion, storm damage costs rise, storms wetter,  stratospheric cooling, street crime to increase, subsidence, suicide, sunset displaced,  swordfish in the Baltic, Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tea flavour change, tectonic plate movement, teenage prostitution,   terrorists (India), thatched cottages at risk, threat to peace, ticks move northward (Sweden), tides rise, tigers eat people, tigers drown, tomatoes rot, tornado outbreak, tourism increase, toxic bacteria, toxic seaweed,  trade barriers, trade winds weakened, traffic jams,  transport snarl, transportation threatened, tree foliage increase (UK),   tree growth slowed, tree growth faster, trees grow too fast, trees in trouble, trees less colourful,  trees more colourful, trees lush, trees on Antarctica, treelines change, tropics expansion, tropopause raised, truffle shortage, truffles down,  truffles increase, turtles crash, turtle feminised, turtles lay earlier, UFO sightings, UK coastal impact, UK Katrina,  vampire bats,  Venice flooded,  volcanic eruptions, volcanoes awakened in Iceland,  walnuts threatened, walrus pups orphaned,  walrus stampede,  walruses come ashore, wars over water, wars sparked, wars threaten billions, wasps, water bills double,   water shortage to increase vegetarianism, wave of natural disasters, waves bigger, weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry, weather patterns last longer, Western aid cancelled out,  West Nile fever, whale beachings, whales lose weight, whales move north,  whales wiped out, wheat rust in Syria, wheat yields crushed in Australia,  wild boars thrive, wildfires, wind shift, wind reduced, winds stronger, winds weaker,  wine - Australian baked, , wine industry damage (California),  wine industry disaster (US),  wine - more English, wine - no more French , wine -  England too hot, wine -German boon,  wine passé (Napa), wine - Scotland best,  wine stronger, winters in Britain colder, winter in Britain dead, witchcraft executions, wolverine decline, wolverines vanish, wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, women cheat on vacation, workers laid off, World at war, World War 4,  Yellow fever, zebra mussel threat, zoonotic diseases.

and all on 0.006 deg C per year!

Advice of any omissions (with sources) or broken links is welcome at [email protected]

Note: All links were live at time of posting. Inevitably some will disappear, particularly from Yahoo News.

Thanks to correspondents for additional entries; especially, as always, Our Man in Puerto Rico. Also, thanks to "Scraperguy" for the script to form the following:

The dead link collection

Acne, Africa hit hardest,  African summer frost, agricultural land increase, Alaska reshaped, anxiety,  Arctic tundra to burn,  atmospheric defiance, bananas destroyed, beer shortage, bird distributions change, blizzards, boredom, brain eating amoebae, business opportunities, business risks,  British gardens change, budget increases, cardiac arrest,  cataracts,  challenges and opportunities,  cloud stripping,  cremation to end, damages equivalent to $200 billion,  dermatitis,  desert life threatened, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, Dolomites collapse, drought in distant regions, drowning people, early marriages, early spring, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, evolution accelerating, extinctions (bats,    pigmy possums, koalas, turtles, orang-utan,  elephants, tigers, gorillas, whales, frogs,) fainting,  fish catches rise,  flames stoked, footpath erosion, glacial growth, global dimming, god melts, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop,  harmful algae, hazardous waste sites breached, high court debates, HIV epidemic, human health improvement, ice shelf collapse, jet stream drifts north, lake and stream productivity decline, lightning related insurance claims, little response in the atmosphere,  lost $350 billion, Lyme disease,  marine dead zone, Maple production advanced,  mental illness (Alberta), migration difficult (birds), mountains melting, mudslides, oceans noisier,  oyster diseases, ozone loss, Pacific dead zone, plankton destabilised, plankton loss, plant viruses,   polar bears starve,  psychosocial disturbances,  popcorn rise, rainfall reduction,   riches, rivers dry up, rockfalls,  ruins ruined, skin cancer, smelt down, snowfall reduction, stick insects, stormwater drains stressed, teenage drinking, terrorism, tree beetle attacks,  trees could return to Antarctic, tree growth increased, tsunamis, tundra plant life boost, uprooted - 6 million, Vampire moths, violin decline, walrus displaced, war, war between US and Canada, water scarcity (20% of increase), water stress, water supply unreliability, weeds,   white Christmas dream ends, wine - harm to Australian industry,   World bankruptcy, World-famous places threatened, World in crisis, World in flames,
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Is Climate Change Affecting Suicide Rates?




Every 40 seconds one person commits suicide. Only in the past 45 years the world has turned 60 per cent more suicidal than it used to be. Unemployment, low income, age (over 45), low social status, race, low educational level and mental disorders are often pinpointed as triggering factors in suicidal mood.

These reasons are not panacea, nonetheless. According to Dr. Konstantinos Fountoulakis, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, who has a significant body of published work on suicidality, the racial minorities of Black American and Latin American peoples of the US are much less suicidal than far better-off White Americans. Likewise, the indigent countries of the Middle East and Africa are not tending toward taking their lives—at least when they are in peace.

A look at the chart of global suicidality demonstrates that countries of Eastern Europe and Asia occupy almost all top places. Intriguingly, uber-rich countries like Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Denmark rank high, 14, 19, 25 and 27 respectively, far above debt-stricken, Southern European countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece.

“There is a zone of very high suicidality extending from Eastern Europe to Central Asia and Korea and a second of very low suicidality around the Mediterranean basin. The rest of the world lies somewhere in the middle,” confirms Dr. Fountoulakis.

Among the troubled economically and fiscally countries of the Mediterranean Europe, Greece, by any chance the most troubled of all, appears the least suicidal of all, and ranks low on the chart (73), far below her prosperous creditor Germany (33), or the Great Powers of US (43) and Canada (40). This is an interesting finding as suicide rates in Greece have increased by 35 per cent in a little less than two years. Surveys are naming and shaming the crisis entering its eighth year now and the no-hope climate in a country plagued with an unemployment rate of almost 30 per cent and shrinking public welfare funds, soaring taxes, butchered pensions and so on so forth, in full accord with what Troika, and the 436 billion euros it has loansharked Greece since 2010 orders (surveys also reproach the press and the government for the public messaging of the crisis, for the way they have sensationalized despair).

A recently published study led by Dr. Fountoulakis and his team comes to explain rising suicidality through a different lens, suggesting the existence of another variable more “lethal” than unemployment: climate.

The study calculated the possible correlations between the rates of attempted and completed suicides and climate variables or yearly regional unemployment in the county of Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Northern Greece, for the years 2000–12. The scientific team investigated the archive of the Emergency Outpatient Units of three hospitals and projected the results to the county population. The rate of attempted suicides was 16.69–40.34 per 100,000 inhabitants for males and 41.43–110.82 for females. The completed suicide rates varied from 0.19 to 1.95 per 100,000 inhabitants for females and from 3.62 to 5.47 for males. Roughly 95 per cent used medication to commit suicide (medication is the dominant method of attempting suicide in the first-world, in stark contrast to the pesticides a person of the developing world will consume to kill themselves). The researchers found that the attempt rate correlated negatively with regional unemployment both for males and females but the completed suicide rate for males correlated positively with unemployment though for females there did not seem to be a major difference.

On top of everything, attempts peaked in May and August, that is when spring and summer are in full bloom—and reached rock bottom in February and December, at the border of winter.

In a nutshell, climate influenced men and women in a different way, but the climate effect was undeniably stronger than the effect of unemployment. This adds to data suggesting that around the world, including Europe and the US, the recent increase in suicidal rates preceded by approximately one year the increase in unemployment.

Past surveys have also linked worldwide rises in temperature to aggression and found suicides, especially violent ones, more common during hot summer months and heat waves, which amplify mental and behavioral disorders. A research in neighboring Italy found that the latest climate changes brought about by global warming also increased suicide mortality in the country. Be that as it may, other scientific voices raise their concerns about how most suicidal individuals are closely monitored by friends and family when they spend more time indoors during the cold days of winter or that not all places around the planet are responding symmetrically to climate change; some are warming, some are drying, some are cooling.

Asked whether global warming will indeed shoot up the number of suicides the world over, Dr. Fountoulakis answers: “Populations have adapted to the climate of their country over the course of centuries, something evident in, for example, the color of the skin. Predominantly, it is the changes in established climate conditions that affect suicidality in prone people. Current evidence prohibits us from drawing definitive conclusions on such a delicate issue, but we are conjecturing that global warming might influence the suicide rate.”


http://globalcomment.com/climate-change-suicide/


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Deep-Sixing Another Useful Climate Myth

David Legates | Apr 09, 2016

By now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree:  Climate change is real, manmade and dangerous.” Even if you weren’t one of his 31 million followers who received this tweet from President Obama, you most assuredly have seen it repeated everywhere as scientific fact.

The correct representation is “yes,” “some,” and “no.” Yes, climate change is real. There has never been a period in Earth’s history when the climate has not changed somewhere, in one way or another.

People can and do have some influence on our climate. For example, downtown areas are warmer than the surrounding countryside, and large-scale human development can affect air and moisture flow. But humans are by no means the only source of climate change. The Pleistocene ice ages, Little Ice Age and monster hurricanes throughout history underscore our trivial influence compared to natural forces.

As for climate change being dangerous, this is pure hype based on little fact. Mile-high rivers of ice burying half of North America and Europe were disastrous for everything in their path, as they would be today. Likewise for the plummeting global temperatures that accompanied them. An era of more frequent and intense hurricanes would also be calamitous; but actual weather records do not show this.

It would be far more deadly to implement restrictive energy policies that condemn billions to continued life without affordable electricity – or to lower living standards in developed countries – in a vain attempt to control the world’s climate. In much of Europe, electricity prices have risen 50% or more over the past decade, leaving many unable to afford proper wintertime heat, and causing thousands to die.

Moreover, consensus and votes have no place in science. History is littered with theories that were long denied by “consensus” science and politics: plate tectonics, germ theory of disease, a geocentric universe. They all underscore how wrong consensus can be.

Science is driven by facts, evidence and observations – not by consensus, especially when it is asserted by deceitful or tyrannical advocates. As Einstein said, “A single experiment can prove me wrong.”

During this election season, Americans are buffeted by polls suggesting which candidate might become each party’s nominee or win the general election. Obviously, only the November “poll” counts.

Similarly, several “polls” have attempted to quantify the supposed climate change consensus, often by using simplistic bait-and-switch tactics. “Do you believe in climate change?” they may ask.

Answering yes, as I would, places you in the President’s 97% consensus and, by illogical extension, implies you agree it is caused by humans and will be dangerous. Of course, that serves their political goal of gaining more control over energy use.

The 97% statistic has specific origins. Naomi Oreskes is a Harvard professor and author of Merchants of Doubt, which claims those who disagree with the supposed consensus are paid by Big Oil to obscure the truth. In 2004, she claimed to have examined the abstracts of 928 scientific papers and found a 100% consensus with the claim that the “Earth’s climate is being affected by human activities.”

Of course, this is probably true, as it is unlikely that any competent scientist would say humans have no impact on climate. However, she then played the bait-and-switch game to perfection – asserting that this meant “most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.”

However, one dissenter is enough to discredit the entire study, and what journalist would believe any claim of 100% agreement? In addition, anecdotal evidence suggested that 97% was a better figure. So 97% it was.

Then in 2010, William Anderegg and colleagues concluded that “97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support … [the view that] … anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for most of the unequivocal warming of the Earth’s average global temperature” over a recent but unspecified time period. (Emphasis in original.)

To make this extreme assertion, Anderegg et al. compiled a database of 908 climate researchers who published frequently on climate topics, and identified those who had “signed statements strongly dissenting from the views” of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The 97–98% figure is achieved by counting those who had not signed such statements.

Silence, in Anderegg’s view, meant those scientists agreed with the extreme view that most warming was due to humans. However, nothing in their papers suggests that all those researchers believed humans had caused most of the planetary warming, or that it was dangerous.

The most recent 97% claim was posited by John Cook and colleagues in 2013. They evaluated abstracts from nearly 12,000 articles published over a 21-year period and sorted them into seven categories, ranging from “explicit, quantified endorsement” to “explicit, quantified rejection” of their alleged consensus: that recent warming was caused by human activity, not by natural variability. They concluded that “97.1% endorsed the consensus position.”

However, two-thirds of all those abstracts took no position on anthropogenic climate change. Of the remaining abstracts (not the papers or scientists), Cook and colleagues asserted that 97.1% endorsed their hypothesis that humans are the sole cause of recent global warming.

Again, the bait-and-switch was on full display. Any assertion that humans play a role was interpreted as meaning humans are the sole cause. But many of those scientists subsequently said publicly that Cook and colleagues had misclassified their papers – and Cook never tried to assess whether any of the scientists who wrote the papers actually thought the observed climate changes were dangerous.

My own colleagues and I did investigate their analysis more closely. We found that only 41 abstracts of the 11,944 papers Cook and colleagues reviewed – a whopping 0.3% – actually endorsed their supposed consensus. It turns out they had decided that any paper which did not provide anexplicit, quantified rejection of their supposed consensus was in agreement with the consensus. Moreover, this decision was based solely on Cook and colleagues’ interpretation of just the abstracts, and not the articles themselves.  In other words, the entire exercise was a clever sleight-of-hand trick.

What is the real figure? We may never know. Scientists who disagree with the supposed consensus – that climate change is manmade and dangerous – find themselves under constant attack.

Harassment by Greenpeace and other environmental pressure groups, the media, federal and state government officials, and even universities toward their employees (myself included) makes it difficult for many scientists to express honest opinions. Recent reports about Senator Whitehouse and Attorney-General Lynch using RICO laws to intimidate climate “deniers” further obscure meaningful discussion.

Numerous government employees have told me privately that they do not agree with the supposed consensus position – but cannot speak out for fear of losing their jobs. And just last week, a George Mason University survey found that nearly one-third of American Meteorological Society members were willing to admit that at least half of the climate change we have seen can be attributed to natural variability.

Climate change alarmism has become a $1.5-trillion-a-year industry – which guarantees it is far safer and more fashionable to pretend a 97% consensus exists, than to embrace honesty and have one’s global warming or renewable energy funding go dry.

The real danger is not climate change – it is energy policies imposed in the name of climate change. It’s time to consider something else Einstein said: “The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlegates/2016/04/09/deepsixing-another-useful-climate-myth-n2145395/page/full
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Coldest since the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

APRIL 7, 2016



A 142-year monthly April record shattered in Concord, New Hampshire. Not just for the day, but for the entire month of April.

The temperature on Tuesday morning dipped to a bone-chilling 4 degrees Fahrenheit (-15.6 C). The previous April cold record, 7 F (-13.9 C), had stood since April 1, 1874, during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.

https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/cold-april-2016-great-lakes-northeast-midwest
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According to my FB friend...Nice frost in NYC this morning and rather windy. Especially by the skyscrapers. This policeman I often chat with was shaking and sheltering behind a wall. He could hardly speak he was so cold. It's not an easy job. By the time I was on the bike on the Brooklyn Bridge I regretted not having gone into the store to get him hot chocolate. That is because I am a slow thinker.
But for my work day, there is the ration of coffee and water today. Oil paint and canvas.


Never too late. The next time you see him, a nice hot chocolate with the word bitcoin written on it.

 Smiley

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When will people get over this battle?

Just accept that climate change is real and move on geez

The problem with this is that it has the same logical fallacy as the evangelist who asks you "Have you taken Jesus Christ as your savior?"

If you answer YES, he has the privilege of retroactively defining the words and meaning of your affirmation.  However, in your view, your positions may well be completely opposite of his.

The problem thus is with YOU, and not those engaged in whatever you choose to call "battle."

Because we all know and understand "climate change is real" is doubleplus good unreal speak.
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....WHY have we not got free clean energy systems ..I have heard plenty have been killed or bought out who invented these systems..Is this a lie..
Yes that's a lie......
In short, it is a patent for a device capable of producing unlimited free energy with zero environmental impact. A device resembling an electric motor which produces work without electrical input, using only permanent magnets for motive force. What some might call perpetual motion. What the inventor believes is the harnessing of energy not thought possible by conventional science based on "incomplete information and theory with respect to the atomic motion occurring within a permanent magnet."

U.S. Patent Office Has Two Free Energy Devices on File ...
www.apparentlyapparel.com/.../us-patent-office-has-two-free-energy-de...

plenty of people wanting a patent for clean energy ..but can't get one......
Yes, those are lies.  Anything in space in a vacuum will be in perpetual motion, but in a world of friction cannot be, unless energy is added to it.   Nothing "produces work without electrical input."

And it's ridiculous to think that the US patent office is a toolbooth allowing or preventing inventions.
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According to my FB friend...Nice frost in NYC this morning and rather windy. Especially by the skyscrapers. This policeman I often chat with was shaking and sheltering behind a wall. He could hardly speak he was so cold. It's not an easy job. By the time I was on the bike on the Brooklyn Bridge I regretted not having gone into the store to get him hot chocolate. That is because I am a slow thinker.
But for my work day, there is the ration of coffee and water today. Oil paint and canvas.
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When will people get over this battle?

Just accept that climate change is real and move on geez


When will people get over this battle?
Just accept that santa claus is real and move on geez


Science!

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Spring Flips Back to Winter in Boston With Fast-Moving Snowstorm

A fast-moving snowstorm on Sunday has reminded Boston and southern New England that while the calendar may say spring, the weather can still turn to winter.
That message will be amplified Monday morning as a second storm sweeps across the Northeast, dumping snow from Buffalo, New York, to Boston, said Dan Petersen, a meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
“It should be arriving in the Boston area by rush hour tomorrow morning and then clearing out by tomorrow evening,” Petersen said.
The first round of winter-like weather left a trace of snow in New York’s Central Park. From three to six inches (5-15 cm) has fallen across parts of western New York, as well as in Connecticut, Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, according to the National Weather Service.....

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-03/spring-flips-back-to-winter-in-boston-with-fast-moving-snowstorm
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When will people get over this battle?

Just accept that climate change is real and move on geez
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UNPRECEDENTED and EXTREME weather will hit us at Shady Grove Farm this weekend, echoing, and EXCEEDING the cold blast of April 2007 that decimated agriculture across the eastern half of the country from Arkansas to South Carolina, losses in 2007 devastated farmers.
The upshot of this is that we won't be attending the Summersville Farmers' and Artisans' Market on Main on Saturday frown emoticon
The cripplingly cold weather that will bring record-breaking lows. Temps Friday into Saturday will be around 10F, with possibly 4 inches of snow on Friday night. We know that there will be NO gritting on Friday night, and no ploughing because winter work has already finished for the plough teams.
Our water buckets WILL freeze, so everything will need changing out first thing Friday, but my BIGGEST concern is that we will need to watch our brooder hut like hawks.. it has the 2 week olds in it, and although it is insulated, and we have a heat lamp, the temp dropped 30 degrees with the high winds and outside temps down to 26F a few nights ago. Fortunately we were able to get supplemental heat in there before we lost any babies, but this coop was not built for raising chickies in a "January Freeze"!
Even if the market is moved inside, not many people are going to want to come out in the bitterly cold weather with snow and ice on the ground.. this is an indication of the record-shattering lows that will not just hit us here, but orchards and emerging crops are going to be DEVASTATED across the mid-west through to the east-north-east frown emoticon
The temps are in Fahrenheit - these temps are MUCH colder than temps recorded in 2007!
The second image shows soft fruit crop losses in % terms for 20 states.. eg 90% loss of the Blueberry crop in NC, Up to 100% loss of soft fruits in Arkansas, and up to 65% losses in 2007 for West Virginia's Blueberry crop.
Oh, and the temperature map is courtesy of the crappy GFS weather model that is used by NOAA etc.. which ALWAYS underestimates cold!
The third pic shows temperature departures from the historic norm.. the cold behind this system is UNbelievable!

https://www.facebook.com/ShadyGroveDuckEggs/posts/861943500619203
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Heavy snowfall on Honduras-Guatemala border – Video

APRIL 4, 2016

Hail and snow in Irazu National Park, Costa Rica, 10 degrees north of the equator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivZghJyiLe8
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....WHY have we not got free clean energy systems ..I have heard plenty have been killed or bought out who invented these systems..Is this a lie..
Yes that's a lie.
Not saying it's true..But..

To this very day, the U.S. Patent office blocks all patent request for any and all patents labeled under, Free Energy, or Free Energy Device.

  Despite attempts by some inventors with a list qualified scientist to back their findings, along with a group of patent attorneys working overtime, the U.S. Patent continues to openly refuse a U.S. Patent for any devices that does not require an outside source of fuel or energy of some kind to operate. IE: Solar power, gas powered, coal powered,  hydro powered, wind powered, fusion powered, and so forth

It is reasoned/surmised that the U.S. Patent office position on this is do to one or two primary factors.

(1) The U.S. Patent office does not operate alone, and thus, answer to a higher protocol. ...and or,

(2) The U.S. Patent office will not grant a patent that endangers the well being of big oil, the coal industry, the nuclear industry, and the electric companies. Doing so would eventually cause political lines to be redrawn. The money made from selling war machines over oil would no longer viable, thus the patent office answers to a higher authority, but to who?

(3) The U.S. Invention Secrecy Act for the withholding of U.S. patents.

Decades of Suppression
Revealed here in its entirety is a patent which, due to probable suppression by political, military and/or economic interests, you've never heard about. Granted to inventor Howard Johnson on April 24, 1979, the rights to which have expired since 1996, patent number 4,151,431. See there also patent number 5,402,021, also issued to Howard Johnson March 28, 1995 which continues to build upon the very same principals. These may, in fact, prove to be some of the most important documents in the history of mankind.

In short, it is a patent for a device capable of producing unlimited free energy with zero environmental impact. A device resembling an electric motor which produces work without electrical input, using only permanent magnets for motive force. What some might call perpetual motion. What the inventor believes is the harnessing of energy not thought possible by conventional science based on "incomplete information and theory with respect to the atomic motion occurring within a permanent magnet."

U.S. Patent Office Has Two Free Energy Devices on File ...
www.apparentlyapparel.com/.../us-patent-office-has-two-free-energy-de...

plenty of people wanting a patent for clean energy ..but can't get one..
Seems people still want earth blood..black gold ..Texas tea..
I am on the fence because i do see why people don't want to loose oil countries depend on it..

But they don't see the fact they could do an energy tax..Then again if it's a private company they wont get the money the government does and shares it to the public not one man..

Energy GANGSTERS  Cheesy Got to be.


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....WHY have we not got free clean energy systems ..I have heard plenty have been killed or bought out who invented these systems..Is this a lie..
Yes that's a lie.
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"earth blood","earth is alive","earth collapsed"....I dont even know where to start?  Are you ok?

YEP..thanks for asking..The earth is alive and what we call oil is in fact earth blood..

If the earth is dead how did you get here ..GOD I SUPPOSE Cheesy

This is what I mean by the new-age weirdness which is becoming pervasive as the most recent generation comes of age...for some reason..  Nothing to do with modern 'science' whatsoever.  Many of us abandoned that stuff centuries ago and that is why the world progressed.


No not new age..POW WOW Indian's. Budhism to be one with everything..

Nothing to do with modern 'science' whatsoever.  Many of us abandoned that stuff centuries ago and that is why the world progressed YOU SAY..If we have progressed then WHY have we not got free clean energy systems ..I have heard plenty have been killed or bought out who invented these systems..Is this a lie..I don't know but I could imagine it being so..So have we progressed?
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"earth blood","earth is alive","earth collapsed"....I dont even know where to start?  Are you ok?

YEP..thanks for asking..The earth is alive and what we call oil is in fact earth blood..

If the earth is dead how did you get here ..GOD I SUPPOSE Cheesy

This is what I mean by the new-age weirdness which is becoming pervasive as the most recent generation comes of age...for some reason..  Nothing to do with modern 'science' whatsoever.  Many of us abandoned that stuff centuries ago and that is why the world progressed.





This is the raison d'être of this thread: people calling other people deniers are themselves the new moloch worshipers.



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"earth blood","earth is alive","earth collapsed"....I dont even know where to start?  Are you ok?

YEP..thanks for asking..The earth is alive and what we call oil is in fact earth blood..

If the earth is dead how did you get here ..GOD I SUPPOSE Cheesy

This is what I mean by the new-age weirdness which is becoming pervasive as the most recent generation comes of age...for some reason..  Nothing to do with modern 'science' whatsoever.  Many of us abandoned that stuff centuries ago and that is why the world progressed.

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