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Global Warming Produces A Significant Reduction In North American Wildland Fires

Contrary to the IPCC's hysterical bureaucrat-scientists, the total number of wildland fires across North America (north of Mexico) has dropped immensely since 1970 - this drop took place during the James Hansen's supposed "runaway" global warming period

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How do climate "experts" and associated doomsday-alarmists psychologically cope when being humiliated on a daily basis by the empirical evidence?

Take the case of wildland fires. Not only has the total acres burned in Canada and the U.S. been dropping since the mid-1990's, but the total wildland fire count has fallen off the proverbial cliff.

The exact opposite of expert predictions.

Combine the shock of that prediction failure with the disappearance of their coveted "tipping point' global warming and it must make them just incredibly miserable, anti-social individuals, no?

Regardless of the consensus climate experts' incompetence and the faithfuls' continuous disappointments from failure, they will still predict disastrous climate calamities that would do Harold Camping proud. And rest assured, after every single, future bad weather event they will claim it to be a another sign of an angry, green-god smiting CO2-loving humans.

Now, that is very predictable and extremely boring - same old, same old.

Previous severe-weather postings. Additional severe-weather, temperature and CO2 charts. A listing of severe-weather events.

Obama's Green-sharia Economic and Political Agenda Relies On Climate Distortions, Misrepresentations & Lies - 2012 Drought An Example

The Obama administration has infected many U.S. agencies with green-sharia bureaucrats attempting to "stone" the American economy into submission with its anti-growth, anti-job and anti-scientific CO2 policies - symptoms of this green-radical agenda include exaggerating the uniqueness and severity of extreme recent weather events, such as the 2012 drought

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Using NOAA's online climate empirical evidence tools, the above charts easily counter the U.S. taxpayer funded green-fundamentalist scientists' claims that the drought of 2012 was "unique", "unprecedented" or "without equal."

Well prior to modern era's massive growth in consumer/industrial CO2 emissions, severe droughts had frequently plagued major areas of the U.S. The above Y-T-D through October NOAA precipitation charts, for a variety of pre-1960 years, factually demonstrate this.

Previous severe-weather postings. Additional severe-weather, temperature and CO2 charts. A listing of severe-weather events.

Note on 'Green-sharia': Global warming alarmists and anti-CO2 advocates embody a green belief system that closely resembles an anti-science theology, primarily based on flaky, cult-like doomsday scenarios. Like any group of cultists, they are extremely gullible in regards to authoritarian fear-mongering, to the point of idolatry fanaticism. Not only do these fundamentalists reject any empirical evidence that questions their green ideology, they will aggressively attack and smear any heretic/skeptic who challenges their beliefs. It's bad enough that these ideologue zealots are constantly proselytizing about their doomsday scenarios to the unwary, but  like the the worst-of-the-worst religious extremists, they want to force everyone to kowtow to their fundamentalism - in essence, the imposition of their green-sharia.

More Proof That Global Warming & Climate Change Are A Result Of Natural Climatic Forces

The evidence that human CO2 emissions are not a primary factor driving climate change and global warming continues to grow - analyzing fundamental empirical evidence points to ocean/atmospheric patterns as the principal climatic forces

One of these two charts is a plot of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. The other chart a plot representing the 20-year global temperature changes (for example, the very first data point is the temperature change from January 1850 to January 1870). 

Click on each chart to enlarge. Look carefully. Can you tell which is which?

The charts are very similar, representing the exact same time periods. Both charts have a black curve that is a plot of atmospheric CO2 levels. Note how the charts have a similar oscillation pattern that extends to their respective 5-year (60-period) averages (purple curves).

NOAA tells us that the AMO chart constitutes a "series of long-duration changes in the sea surface temperature of the North Atlantic Ocean, with cool and warm phases that may last for 20-40 years...These changes are natural and have been occurring for at least the last 1,000 years...The AMO has affected air temperatures and rainfall over much of the Northern Hemisphere, in particular, North America and Europe. It is associated with changes in the frequency of North American droughts and is reflected in the frequency of severe Atlantic hurricanes...Models of the ocean and atmosphere that interact with each other indicate that the AMO cycle involves changes in the south-to-north circulation and overturning of water and heat in the Atlantic Ocean...studies of paleoclimate proxies, such as tree rings and ice cores, have shown that oscillations similar to those observed instrumentally have been occurring for at least the last millennium. This is clearly longer than modern man has been affecting climate, so the AMO is probably a natural climate oscillation...We are not yet capable of predicting exactly when the AMO will switch, in any deterministic sense."

So, in a nutshell, the AMO is essentially temperature variation of a large body of water between the equator and Greenland. NOAA states it's a result of the natural thermocline circulation change, while others suggests it is driven by solar irradiance and another expert, Bob Tisdale, suggests it is influenced by leftover heat from Pacific Ocean El Nino events. Regardless, the AMO is a natural climate phenomenon, unrelated to CO2 - it is a consensus.

In contrast, the other chart (20-year global temperature change), which has the basic look and feel of the AMO chart, is claimed by NOAA and the IPCC's green-sharia bureaucrats to be the result of human CO2 emissions, especially after 1960. The alarmist scientists claim that human CO2 emissions cause global warming to be rapidly increasing; dangerously accelerating; indisputable; irrefutable; incontrovertible; irreversible; and, yada, yada, yada.

If this were actually the case, then the chart depicting 20-year temperature change should reflect these supposed traits, and most definitely, not resemble the AMO chart.

Such a chart would at least indicate more extreme global temperature changes over the last two decades, plus the 5-year average would be continuously trending up. Instead, the actual 20-year change chart above reveals a shrinking of global temperature change range over the last two decades, and it reveals a 5-year average that modulates between increasing and decreasing, just as the chart for the natural AMO does.

Look at the charts again. NOAA states that atmospheric CO2 levels (black curve) are not the factor resulting in the AMO pattern, and to any observer that is very evident. Likewise, the rational and objective observer would find that the pattern of long-term global temperature change is also not the result of atmospheric CO2 levels. (The green curves are poorly correlated with the black CO2 curves in both charts.)

That then begs the question of what drives global temperature change. Well, that part is not terribly difficult to understand - it's called nature. Remember what NOAA said about the natural AMO: "The AMO has affected air temperatures and rainfall over much of the Northern Hemisphere, in particular, North America and Europe."

Ahhh...then it's not too big of a surprise that the 20-year temperature change chart seems to mimic that of the AMO chart, no? And when one adds the Pacific’s ENSO and PDO climate modes to the mix, the outcome is unequivocal: global temperatures are literally being driven by massive forces of nature that simply swamps the greenhouse gas effect from a trace gas. (And that's why there is sucn an obvious a lousy correlation to CO2.)

One final thought…..for a great explanation of what is the natural cause for the apparent linear trend of global warming, watch this video to better understand how natural forces make it so.

Oh, and btw, which is which? The chart on the right is the AMO chart since 1870; the chart of the left is the 20-year temperature changes of the HadCRUT global (land/ocean) dataset since 1870.

The Experts' Predicted Increase Of Forest Fires From Global Warming Fails To Materialize

The IPCC and the green-sharia scientists have long predicted a catastrophic increase in wildfires (e.g. forest fires, brush-fires etc.) due to "global warming" induced climate change - like so many other IPCC predictions, this one is a major fail

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Canada has the world's third largest forested area. It is spread across a Northern Hemisphere region that has supposedly warmed dangerously from CO2 emissions since the 1960's. 

The IPCC and other climate experts predicted that this dangerous warming would result in catastrophic forest fires whose intensity and frequency would increase.

As this chart reveals though, the long-term averages of actual Canadian forest fires and acres burned has declined over the last 20 years - significantly. 

Possible Conclusions:

One, global warming does not necessarily cause an increase of forest fires. Or, two, global warming has not really happened as predicted, nor as officially reported versus actual warming for Canada. Or, three, catastrophic climate change predictions by the IPCC are mostly incorrect. Take your pick.

NOAA Verifies That Warmer 2012 Temperatures In U.S. Cause A Decline In Severe Weather

Tornadoes are very severe weather events that plague much of the U.S. - in a year that NOAA is claiming to be the "warmest", year-to-date 2012 tornadoes declined significantly from average

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World renowned climate "experts", such as Al Gore and Obama, claim that global warming in the U.S. is causing more severe weather events.

In fact, just the opposite has occurred in 2012, which NOAA confirms. As the U.S. has experienced a very warm year compared to previous recent years, the tornado count reported has declined by over 50% from the really cold year of 2008.

And as historical evidence has substantiated, cold weather (colder climate) generates more frequent and stronger severe weather events than a warmer climate.

Of course, the likes of Gore and the anti-science Obama never mention the very warm climate that Mexico has and the resulting massive number of tornadoes that occur there - ooops....oh that's right, a warm Mexico doesn't have many tornadoes.

Update: The above NCDC chart is a plot of Y-T-D (Jan-Oct) temperatures over the last 15 years, through October 2012.

Confirmed: Climate Models & Experts Unable To Predict Global Temperatures, Climate Research Fails

The IPCC, and various prominent climate research agencies, have all predicted significant global warming per their "expert" climate models - however, actual global temperature data confirm the computer climate simulations are highly inaccurate

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Despite billions being spent on research to prove that the 'CO2-causes-global-warming' hypothesis has merit, the actual global temperature observations, as shown in the adjacent chart, confirm the spectacular prediction failure of CO2-based climate models.

Much to the chagrin of the IPCC, simply stated, the billions spent on the AGW computer simulations, when compared to reality, has only proven the opposite of IPCC claims -  that the trace gas CO2 does not cause catastrophic global warming and climate change.

This chart depicts the last 17 years of the CMIP-3 multi-model climate mean temperatures versus the global HadCRUT temperature observations, through September 2012. (Why 17 years? - a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist's study)

The chart's bright red fitted-trend curve represents the IPCC's A1b model predictions, which appears to track the growth of the grey CO2 fitted-trend curve of atmospheric CO2 levels. In contrast, the bright blue fitted-trend curve (actual global temperatures) reveals a global climate that is 'trending' towards cooling, not warming as the multi-model predicted.

Per the IPCC's 'Special Report on Emissions Scenarios' (SRES), the A1b scenario has global temperatures growing at a per century trend that would produce a 1.7 to 2.8°C temperature increase by 2100AD. However, the actual temperature trend for the last 17 years suggests only a +0.6°C increase by 2100 and that trend has continued to shrink over recent time (see bright blue curve).

The current cooling trend, which the IPCC's climate models were unable to predict, is indisputable when the last 10 years of temperature observations are examined.

Sooo, why are the IPCC's climate models so wrong, sooooo often? First, the models' erroneous predictions are primarily driven by CO2 levels, which is now known to be an incorrect hypothesis. Second, the models robustly ignore natural climate phenomenon that are the principal factors controlling global temperatures.

This video provides a good summary of the climate models' failures in addition to other "global warming" falsehoods - well worth the 12-minute view.

Note: Download source data and links for above Excel chart.

'C3' Administration Notes - Sunday, Nov. 18

Note 1: In anticipation of 'C3' moving to a new blogging platform, we are in process of a slight reorganization and housecleaning. All the pre-election political postings (starting with "157 Days Until Election, Nov. 6, 2012: The Headlines") will be deleted from the main www.c3headlines.com page and reside only on this page in the future.

Note 2: If anyone has a recommendation for a WordPress expert(s) who could perform a Typepad to WordPress conversion, leave your recommendation as a comment. If any WordPress experts just want to post a few lines advertising your skillset in the comments, have at it (please stick to WordPress skills/talents only). Spam and off-topic subjects will be deleted.

Obama Spews Amazing Anti-Science Drivel About Global Warming: The Ignorance (Lies?) Is Stunning

Obama stated the following in his latest press conference: "What we do know is the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted even 10 years ago"

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Au contraire, mon faible d'esprit - from the U.S. climate agency, the facts are indisputable: global oceans have not warmed over the last 10 years. In fact, they have been cooling.....at a minus 0.72°C per century rate.

This next chart plots the UK's HadCRUT global (land and ocean) temperatures, along with atmospheric CO2 levels. This temperature dataset is preferred by the UN's IPCC, and it also clearly shows that global temperatures have declined at the same minus 0.72°C, not increased as Obama reported. (Even the highly manipulated NASA/GISS global temperature dataset confirms the last 10 years of global cooling but at a lesser per century rate.)

The global temperature facts cannot be contested. The objective science evidence is irrefutable and unequivocal. Yet the president of the United States feels compelled to brazenly mislead the American public during a lapdog press conference. Why?

• Is he just mind-boggling stupid?
• Is he just a blinkered, green-sharia fundamentalist?
• Is he just a pathological liar? (Hmmm...the Benghazi, Petraeus and Operation 'Fast & Furious' scandals appear to lend credence to this opinion.)
  

Seriously, why would Obama state a known falsehood that is simply anti-science, green drivel? What say you?

Govt Funded Climate Models Continue Abysmal Performance - Still Unable To Predict Global Temperatures

Government bureaucrat-scientists and their expert "global warming" climate models, based on levels of atmospheric CO2, continue to prove an astounding incompetence - billions of taxpayer monies wasted on failed computer simulations that can't predict global temperatures

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The skill of government funded climate models to accurately predict global temperatures has proven to be non-existent (through September 30, 2012). The left and middle charts represent the bureaucrats' NASA/GISS and IPCC climate model failures, respectively.

Why do they fail so spectacularly? Primarily, they are based on the rather flimsy, highly speculative CO2-centric AGW hypothesis. Because of this "consensus" favored AGW hypothesis, these computer simulations literally can't predict squat.

The third chart (rightmost) represents a climate model that has performed significantly better at predicting global temperatures. This computer simulation essentially ignores the consensus-phobia regarding atmospheric CO2 levels.

Of course, despite the massive failure of the bureaucrat climate models, and the corresponding success of alternative, non-consensus models, we can all predict with great accuracy the 'climate models' that the politicians will waste future taxpayer funds on, no?

"Climate Change": NY's Gov. Cuomo Confirms Incredible Stupidity Of Liberal-Democrats

The Democratic Governor of New York makes grossly stupid statement about New York state never being the victim of hurricanes and strong storms before - or, is he just another in a long line of pathological liars that dominates the political "elites"?

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The stupidity of liberal Democrat political class never ceases to amaze. Sadly, this gross stupidity, so lionized by the likes of "journalist" Jon Stewart and the mainstream media, assures that incompetent politicians are never held accountable for the lack of proper disaster preparedness and inept recovery efforts. 

Putting aside the incredible ineptness of FEMA and NY/NJ state disaster recovery failures, it is well documented and, quite frankly, irrefutable that bad storms and hurricanes have struck the U.S. East coast, prior to the liberal fear-mongering of CO2, global warming and climate change. In fact, one can find thousands of disastrous weather events well before the 1960's.

In addition, it is also well documented that recent "global warming" and CO2 levels were not the cause of Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy. Whether it's "ocean warming" or "atmospheric warming," the empirical evidence is unequivocal - global temperatures have been flat to declining over the last 15 years.

Temperature & climate charts. Previous severe weather and hurricane postings.

Satellites Determine That Superstorm 'Sandy' Was Not Caused By Global Warming Of The Atmosphere

Per the latest satellite measurements, the public now knows that the hurricane that became Superstorm 'Sandy' was not a result of a CO2-based "global warming" of the atmosphere - actually, the lower atmosphere cooled over the last 15 years

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In a previous 'C3' post, we had shown that the ocean empirical evidence does not support any speculation that ocean "global warming" was the cause of 'Sandy.' In addition, expert climate researcher Bob Tisdale confirmed that the actual ocean waters that the hurricane-storm tracked though had not warmed for the past +70 years.

Well, if the non-warming oceans did not cause the hurricane/storm, was it the "warming" atmosphere? Using the latest RSS satellite measurements for the lower atmosphere, we can ascertain that.

The chart on the left is for the most recent 180 months (15 years thru October 2012) of RSS temperatures and change in CO2 levels. As clearly denoted, the +30 ppm CO2 change did not cause the atmosphere to warm - in fact, the atmosphere has been cooling since the peak of 1998.

In contrast, the chart on the right is for the prior 15-year period (ending October 1997), which does show a modest warming of the lower atmosphere. Yet during that prior 15-year period, atmosphere CO2 growth was one-third less than the subsequent 15 years.

Conclusions: From the empirical evidence we know....

• Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy was not a result of recent atmospheric global warming, also....

• Increased CO2 emissions do not cause accelerated warming
• Increased CO2 emissions do not cause rapid warming
• Increased CO2 emissions do not cause unprecedented warming
• Increased CO2 emissions do not cause unequivocal warming
• Increased CO2 emissions do not cause irrefutable warming
• Increased CO2 emissions do not cause incontrovertible warming, and yada, yada
• In fact, CO2 emissions at best, might cause a little warming, if any

Advice to politicians:

The American public is not stupid. They know that all Congressional-critters are corrupt and serial liars, controlled by special interests. The American public continues to learn about the empirical evidence that proves politicians have lied about global warming and climate change. Therefore, instead of making the American public more distrustful and cynical, quit lying about the bogus, climate-fearmongering science - such as the whopper that CO2 emissions have caused more hurricanes and superstorms to strike the U.S. East coast.

Instead, if you want more revenues from carbon taxes, for your out-of-control spending, that the public will have to pay for, try the truth. It would be a refreshing and much needed change by the political class. With only a sliver of Americans "approving" of Congress, now's the time to start interjecting honesty into the public discourse with objective, empirical evidence based climate discussions. (Note to GOP & Democrats: computer climate models and "consensus science" are not empirical evidence)

Additional temperature & climate charts. Previous severe weather postings and lists.

Global Warming Has Disappeared, Per The IPCC's Gold-Standard Climate Agency

The HadCRUT global temperature dataset (Sept. 2012) was recently published - this is the dataset used in the most recent IPCC report and it currently shows that global warming from CO2 emissions is essentially non-existent

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Over the last 180 months (15 years) the atmospheric CO2 levels have continued to increase at a rapid pace, but the globe (land and ocean) has cooled during that same time.

For the 15-year period ending September 30, 2012, the world experienced a very slight cooling trend of -0.12°C per century.

In contrast, for the 15-year period ending September 1997, the globe was warming at a +1.18°C pace.

Additional temperature & climate charts.

First Order of Business For Obama: "Climate Change"?

Reading numerous postmortem election articles this morning and this one caught our attention.

"We look forward to working with them to solve our country’s most pressing environmental problems, including global climate change. As the President declared last night, ‘We want our children to live in an America ... that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.’"..."As the historic storm just reminded us, we have no time to waste; we must get serious about climate solutions in order to protect our loved ones and communities from terrible impacts -- extreme weather disasters, droughts, heat waves, and other dangerous consequences of global warming. Especially in the wake of Sandy, which demonstrated that doing nothing about climate change is much costlier than taking action, this issue clearly should be a top priority for our leaders in government.”

The main priority of 'C3 Headlines' over the last few months has been to make it politically impossible for the global warming alarmists to inflict untold damages on the economy and American families.

To accomplish this task, Americans had to at least elect a GOP-controlled senate, and better yet, elect a GOP president who would stop the EPA from further damage. Thus, 'C3' in recent months has devoted its attention more to the political realm in an attempt to aid the GOP's likelihood of success.

Unfortunately, that did not work out so well. With the reelection of Obama and a Democratic Senate, in combination with an out-of-control EPA, the 'die is cast,' irreparably.

Over the next two years (prior to the 2014 mid-terms) the UN's "climate change" and green-fundametalist's agenda will triumph. Green cronyism and subsidized-failures (Volt, anyone?) will prosper. Empirical-based science will continue to wither, and science fraud, perpetuated by the media and academia, will be championed.

It's going to be ugly, starting with the new taxes.

Green Fail: Obama & Democrats Wasted Years & Billions On Stupid "Green" Boondoggles Instead of Working To Fix The Economy

One always hopes that an American president is is intelligent enough to pursue smart economic policies that have proven to create both economic and job growth. Unfortunately, this president's 'Obamanomics' strategy has proven to be the antithesis of smart policy.

Not only was 'Obamanomics' not smart, Obama doubled-down on stupidity by pursuing "green" energy/product boondoggles that have only proven to enrich his large donors while stealing money from the middle-class pocketbook.

At 'C3' we've been compiling headlines about the green boondoggles that Obama and Democrats love and promote. Below is a list these headlines, which provide evidence of an administration stuck-on-green-stupid with no indications that these fiascoes will end well.

• Green Fail: The Obama & Harry Reid $1.3 billion green boondoggle in Nevada - a $4.6 million per job fiasco
• Green Fail: Obama’s ethanol policies responsible for 192,000 deaths each year – starving humans on the altar of the ‘green-vote’
• Green Fail: The “No More (Obama) Solyndras” Act - a bipartisan piece of legislation that shows even Democrats are sick of the “green” energy waste by Obama White House
• Green Fail: Obama, Abound Solar, large donations & even larger loans to the failed solar company
• Green Fail: Obama's big donors will receive huge tax breaks from Solyndra bankruptcy costing taxpayers even more
• Green Fail: Green energy firm receives $32 million loan from Obama and then promptly terminates 200+ U.S. employees
• Green Fail: "Independent" watchdog on Obama's Solyndra loans is big donor to Obama now - green's renewable corruption
• Green Fail: NRG Solar received $1.2 billion green loan from Obama… and just by chance, wife (Arvia Few) of then NRG executive VP is a large donor/bundler for Obama
• Green Fail: "The wind industry is imploding" - layoffs by the welfare-queens of this taxpayer subsidized "green" industry, continues
• Green Fail: "Voters abandon global warming fears" - but that doesn't stop Obama's EPA
• Green Fail: "Worse Than Solyndra" - Maine U.S. Senate candidate in crony cahoots with Democratic administration to enrich green project, used Obama Team to bolster his expensive wind development
• Green Fail: $10 mil to power 30 homes at twice the cost of buying traditional electricity, subsidized by American taxpayers - water turbine project is the latest boondoggle to be funded
• Green Fail: 62% of Americans reject Democrats' corporate welfare to wealthy wind promoters like Maine's U.S. Senate candidate Angus King
• Green Fail: A presentation to Obama by a big Democratic donor with a new 'green' idea - of course, the Obama administration gave him a $625 million loan [video] /sarc
• Green Fail: A simple summary of the Washington Post editorial on Obama's 'Volt' - a brain-dead idea wasting taxpayer funds
• Green Fail: Another "green" pipe dream investment by Obama goes bankrupt - $250 million of taxpayer dollars down the tubes
• Green Fail :Another Obama green energy investment files for bankruptcy - Satcon Technology, a manufacturer of solar power conversion equipment
• Green Fail: Anti-fracking supporters discovered to be using bogus science – claims are hype say scientists
• Green Fail: At the Democratic Party Convention, Obama's key person responsible for the "green" Solyndra scandal literally runs away from inquisitive reporters
• Green Fail: Beltway insider predicts failed Solyndra will damage Obama's re-election
• Green Fail: Blaming China for solar company loans going bad – amazingly, Obama administration was so freaking incompetent it failed to consider aggressive Chinese competition
• Green Fail: Brazil so desperate to promote renewable energy, they turn to human hamsters - Obama's DOE considers loan for hamster solution /sarc
  
• Green Fail: California’s lunatic embrace of green energy is harming low income citizens by the millions
• Green Fail: Cato said it presciently 15 years ago - "Renewable Energy, Not Cheap, Not Green" and Obama still doesn't get it
• Green Fail: CBS News confirms that Obama’s one million electric vehicles goal a resounding joke – but American Enterprise Institute (AEI) “conservative” elites encourage you to buy one
• Green Fail: CFL bulbs found even more dangerous to health – a UV ray risk to humans, thank you GE
• Green Fail: College Illinois fund to lose 50% of its Fisker investment, which is another of Obama's "green" electric vehicle fiascoes
• Green Fail: Congressional Budget Office study reports that Obama's "green" electric vehicles are waste of money - who knew?
• Green Fail: Corn for biofuel equals amount that could feed 412 million people for a year
• Green Fail: Danish firm gets $50 million of Obama's stimulus and then lays off 800 americans...stuck-on-stupid green policies
• Green Fail: DNC platform calls for "environmental justice," including more Solyndras - the Democrats have learned nothing from the last 4 years
• Green Fail: Electric power generating plants using ‘renewable’ biomass fail to protect environment – 79% in violation of air/water environmental standards
• Green Fail: Email from an Obama expert on solar DOE loans - "All in all in the solar field, l think it is extremely easy to pick losers and l really do not know how to pick winners” – yet they showered billions of taxpayer dollars on green energy losers
• Green Fail: Emails prove that White House was directly involved in huge loan to bankrupt solar company – emails contradict bogus statements by Obama
• Green Fail: Emails shed light on corruption between White House & Solyndra – putting the private investors ahead of the taxpayers
• Green Fail: Ethanol vs. the World - remove Obama's U.S. ethanol "green" subsidies say the WTO, FAO, IFAD, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WFP, IFPRI, UN HTLF and the World Bank
• Green Fail: EU spends billions on ‘green’ energy and its CO2 emissions remain the same – in contrast, U.S. emissions decline due to free market & innovation
• Green Fail: EU study determines that wind power installations are not worth the cost (i.e. tax subsidies)
• Green Fail: Forget climate change, Democrat and Obama's direct policies killing the world’s hungry – ethanol takes priority over food
• Green Fail: Generation X has rejected the green’s fanatic religion pushed by spoiled ‘Boomers’
• Green Fail: German media, consumers and taxpayers now finally realizing they are being raped by wind energy greed of a few- does Obama read German?
  
• Green Fail: German politicians backtracking on “green energy revolution” – their original stupidity meets economic reality - is Obama smarter than the Germans?
• Green Fail: GM so desperate to sell Volt it has to offer huge discounts - Obama's green lemon
• Green Fail: Gore green fraud investments will give us 'no more Solyndras'
• Green Fail: Green energy revolution, “an ideologically driven boondoggle from the start”
• Green Fail: Hollywood's Matt Damon uses Mideast oil money to attack America's natural gas industry - the Democrats' green hypocrisy is simply astounding
• Green Fail: Holy sheet!...a massive list of Obama's green investment failures - as noted before, Democrat green-stupidity and greed knows no limits
• Green Fail: How Obama turned $527 million into $24 million – what a green genius, no?
• Green Fail: In 1890, the Morrison Electric automobile had a range of 100 miles on a battery charge – better than Obama’s GM-bailout Volt
• Green Fail: Is the obituary now being written for Obama's Tesla electric vehicle company? - despite a half-billion from taxpayers, Tesla running out of cash, fast
• Green Fail: Italy’s perfect storm of solar ‘malinvestment’ – bankrupting Italy, the renewable energy way that Obama wastes billions on
  
• Green Fail: Layoffs mount at the Democrat-subsidized wind energy manufacturing plants - green subsidies cause more harm than good
• Green Fail: Liberal-biased media discovers that they can no longer just bury Obama’s “green” failures
• Green Fail: Major crony capitalist and Obama supporter, GE, fails at solar panels – market does not support the over-the-top government hype & subsidies
• Green Fail: Massachusetts town finds out just how expensive electric rates are from an Obama-style wind turbine project
• Green Fail: More bad news for Obama’s wind energy subsidies – they are worthless in terms of creating jobs when compared to fossil fuel projects
• Green Fail: More evidence that Obama’s green electric car initiative is failing – why are the elites so freaking stupid?
• Green Fail: Nevada Geothermal Power close to defaulting after receiving an Obama “green” loan of $98 million – hmmm...dumbest president ever?
• Green Fail: New blend of ethanol may damage car engines – Obama’s EPA political agenda likely to harm consumers’ autos
• Green Fail: Nissan Leaf underperforms significantly in hotter climates - electric car battery range not so hot when hot
• Green Fail: Obama & Democrats still believe wasting trillions on "global warming" hysteria is good idea - newest empirical evidence shows no warming for last 16 years
• Green Fail: Obama administration gave $150 million of “stimulus” taxpayer dollars to LG Chem for production of Chevy Volt "green" auto batteries – instead, employees play card games, watch movies & read books/magazines
• Green Fail: Obama administration’s idiotic Energy Secretary still pushing the even more idiotic goal of one-million electric cars in 3 years - why are big government scientists sooo freaking stupid?
• Green Fail: Obama admits to making mistakes and then promises to continue with more ‘green’ failures [video]
• Green Fail: Obama doles out $197 million loan to solar company that "industry analysts are not optimistic about" - just another Solyndra deal, where Obama's cronies enrich themselves
• Green Fail: Obama's electric auto company suffers another setback - are these vehicles safe to own?
• Green Fail: Obama has spent $9.8 million of taxpayer monies for each full-time “green” job – honestly, has there ever been a dumber U.S. president?
• Green Fail: Obama loans $2 billion for South African clean energy project - more taxpayer monies down the foreign 'green' rat hole of Obama's big donors
• Green Fail: Obama personally linked to $2 billion loan for controversial wind project – emails highlight the ‘green’ cronyism that’s wasting taxpayer dollars
• Green Fail: Obama plans to spend millions exporting his signature failed green energy policies to Africa – keeping Africans impoverished via very expensive and unreliable green energy
• Green Fail: Obama policies destroy an actual small 'green' business success story - destroying a solar device firm with sheer anti-small business, Democrat stupidity
• Green Fail: Obama promised 200,000 new ‘green’ jobs per year – only 16,000 total new green jobs after spending $90 BILLION
• Green Fail: Obama stimulus recipient Serious Energy is another failed "green" example of crony capitalism and corrupt politicians
• Green Fail: Obama wealthy campaign donors “feed at the green energy trough” – leading to massive green taxpayer losses
• Green Fail: Obama’s ‘green fleet’ – an utter taxpayer waste the Pentagon embraced instead of national security
• Green Fail: Obama’s ‘green’ energy policies are the same as those pursued by Spain to economic ruin
• Green Fail: Obama’s ‘green’ supporters are lethally anti-consumer, anti-job and anti-business –a clear and present danger to society
• Green Fail: Obama’s Energy Dept. gave Treasury Dept. only one day to review Solyndra loan - $500+ million down the drain because of gross incompetence
• Green Fail: Obama’s EPA cellustic ethanol mandate an unachievable boondoggle – massive stupidity from an out-of-control bureaucracy
• Green Fail: Obama’s green stimulus money flowed “right to union pockets”
• Green Fail: Obama’s loves "green" reusable grocery bags - but bags are likely to be infected with E. coli, salmonella, fecal coliform and the killer virus, norovirus- yum!
  
• Green Fail: Obama-backed electric vehicle company goes dark - 400 jobs and 20,000 cars/year never materialize
• Green Fail: Obama's "green utopia" an utter economic and energy failure - but he keeps defending it...stuck-on-stupid is not admirable
• Green Fail: Obama's "green" energy and jobs are a massive failure - U.S. riches in fossil fuels kicks big green's butt
• Green Fail: Obama's “green energy” gets 82X more tax preferences than fossil fuels
• Green Fail: Obama's car company mislead public in UK about Volt's mileage - UK has banned ad for GM's Ampera (Volt) because of gross deception
• Green Fail: Obama's Energy Dept. makes a big deal out of America's solar power - but it only generates 14/100's of 1% of America's total energy
• Green Fail: Obama's EPA draconian, non-constitutional rulings rejected by court
• Green Fail: Obama's 'Volt Economy' - throwing good money down the rat-hole after bad
• Green Fail: Radical climate adviser to Obama says "Forget your computer, your TV, your stereo, your stove, your dishwasher, your water heater, your microwave, your water pump, your clock. Forget your light bulbs, compact fluorescent or not"...the liberal Democrats' utopia to save the world from climate change
• Green Fail: Remember when Obama and the green fundamentalists wanted Americans to agree to those draconian and job-killing UN CO2 emission cuts?
• Green Fail: Scotland does not meet its CO2 emission reductions because the climate was too cold – so much for Obama's scary global warming
• Green Fail: Senators are calling for investigation of Obama’s “green” investments – Fisker & A123 Battery hundreds of millions in loans questioned
• Green Fail: Senators question Fisker Automotive $529 million “green” loan from Obama – the promised 2,000 U.S. jobs never happened
• Green Fail: Solyndra "green energy" corruption is so bad, that Obama DoE official refuses to testify before Congress
• Green Fail: Some 50 government-backed “green” companies are either bankrupt or financially-troubled – Obama’s green cronyism is a complete bust
• Green Fail: Stupid EU elites plunge 800,000 Germans into energy poverty – citizens can no longer afford basic electricity needs because of Obama-like 'skyrocketing' energy prices
• Green Fail: Survey confirms massive opposition to Obama's wind & solar subsidies - over 60% say subsidies should be eliminated or reduced
• Green Fail: Tesla's electric vehicle has quality problems and Obama's taxpayer loan to Tesla is in trouble
• Green Fail: The 10 most revealing Solyndra emails – green slime oozing from the White House
• Green Fail: The abysmal failure of carbon trading - EU spent 210 billion Euros for zero reduction in carbon emissions
• Green Fail: The cost of Senator John Kerry's climate change hysteria - Democrats' green energy solutions have consequences
• Green Fail: The Democrats and leftist-greens want to ban air conditioning - the NY Times supports this anti-technology looniness
• Green Fail: The Germans unequivocally prove that solar panel companies are not viable - billions poured down a rat hole of failureand Obama learns nothing
  
• Green Fail: The green fundamentalists are now pushing for the no-energy policy - the Obama-Democrats' green religion of the Sierra Club and Greenpeace is basically bankrupt
• Green Fail: The green religion liberal/lefty politicians cause another food crisis – these green fundamentalists are the greatest danger to the quality of life for possibly billions
• Green Fail: The hypocrisy from big green elitists is often amusing and always so blatantly stunning
• Green Fail: The 'Next Solyndra' just keeps happening - Democrats' incompetency, helped by Obama, just makes it so
• Green Fail: The Obama taxpayer-funded Nissan Leaf only goes 44 miles in hot weather
• Green Fail: The unmitigated big government boondoggle called 'ethanol' - another green-welfare disaster
• Green Fail: The USDA is supposed to promote farmers and ranchers products – instead, promote “meatless Mondays” per Obama/UN’s obsession with greenhouse gases
• Green Fail: This is what Obama team calls a “success” – either they're galactically stupid or pathological liars
• Green Fail: Toyota bails on Obama's green car fantasy - the market and technology still not viable
• Green Fail: Turns out Maine's U.S. Senate candidate is just another greedy crony - enriched himself with $400,000 of taxpayer monies for his wind power welfare-project (just what we need in the Senate)
• Green Fail: U.S. Air Force spends $59/gallon on biofuel vs. $4/gallon on fossil fuel – being politically correct costs a lot of taxpayer monies (cut the Defense budget, now)
• Green Fail: UK Chancellor demands ‘green’ stupidity be stopped – ruling elites are realizing their own eco-cide stupidity now- will Obama learn this too?
  
• Green Fail: UK drivers punished for driving green cars – govt will lose money if drivers switch to green cars, thus road taxes to increase (don't give Obama any more tax ideas, please)
  
• Green Fail: Understanding why the ‘green’ energy boondoggle has failed so spectacularly
• Green Fail: United Nations urges Obama to suspend ethanol production – the Democrats’ green religion wants more humans to starve, though
• Green Fail: GM Volt battery manufacturer close to going out of business after Obama loaned the company $151 million
• Green Fail: Watch Democrat green-stupidity in its full glory - wasting huge taxpayer dollars on the soon-to-become bankrupt battery maker [video]
• Green Fail: Why green energy startups are now 'toxic' - hmmm, maybe they're unprofitable for investors long-term?
• Green Fail: Wind and solar renewable energy projects are having major problems because of major environmental groups - the robust hypocrisy is amusing
• Green Fail: Wind energy subsidy is $32,900/worker versus fossil fuel subsidy of $2,100/ worker - Obama is providing huge welfare checks to his wealthy wind-cronies
• Green Fail: Wind power subsidies become a sizable drain at all levels of government
• Green Fail: World food crisis from U.S. corn shortage imminent - Obama administration refuses to deviate though from their crazed ethanol corn consumption
• Green Fail: Yep, those green-liberal Obama supporters sure do care about their local environment - Slobs R' Us
• Green Fail: Internal Revenue Service says Solyndra bankruptcy plan nothing more than Obama's wealth cronies trying to avoid paying taxes
• Green Fail: Obama gives U.S. embassy in Vienna Chevy Volts while he cut security at Libyan embassies...stupidity-on-green-steroids, no?
  
• Green Fail: Obama-subsidized electric hybrids by Fisker exploded and burned when submerged by Hurricane Sandy - they're not supposed to do that
• Green Fail: Obama promises more green failures in order to enrich his "friends" if reelected - refuses to admit that green-crony capitalism for his wealthy donors was a massive waste and gross error in judgment
• Green Fail: Turns out Obama is misleading public about White House influence on ‘green’ loans – emails indicate WH put political pressure on Department of Energy employees
• Green Fail: A big Democratic Obama donor is behind the infamous $59/gallon U.S. military jet biofuel  
• Green Fail: Big Obama supporters receive Federal funds for their venture capital investments – going “green” has whole new meaning for raped taxpayers
• Green Fail: Failed Amonix Solar gave almost half of its political donations to a Democrat being investigated for ethics violations – corrupt politics stinking up Congress
• Green Fail: Obama fundraiser gets coveted Energy Department post – involved with Obama’s failed “green” energy investments
• Green Fail: Obama’s preferred style of “capitalism” is provided by his biggest donor “green” buddies – bringing disgrace to the White House
• Green Fail: The bankrupt battery maker A123 appears to have bought off Obama and Democrats to assure a spot at the Federal taxpayer trough – green corruption and failure running rampant, no?

Hurricane Sandy Is Not A Symptom Of Climate Change or Global Warming

The attempt to label Hurricane Sandy as an "unprecedented" event due to climate change and global warming from human CO2 emissions is simply without merit - comparing 'Sandy' and other recent hurricanes to those in the past establishes that this supposed "superstorm" is just one of many 'Category 1' storms

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Despite the massive flooding devastation delivered by Hurricane Sandy on the huge and dense NY/NJ metropolitan area, it is not some "unprecedented" storm event that the U.S. East Coast has suffered. Nor is it a result of "high" CO2 emissions from man-made activities.

As this chart depicts, over the last 10 years, the East Coast has been hammered by 7 hurricanes, including the 'Category 1' Hurricane Sandy.

But for the 10 years ending 1962, during a period of substantially less atmospheric CO2, the East Coast was struck 10 times by 'Category 1' and higher hurricanes. (Note the 'Category 3' hurricane that wreaked incredible havoc on Long Island during 1954.)

All of these past hurricanes plotted on the chart originated east of the U.S coast, out in the Atlantic, just like Hurricane Sandy. And many of them snaked their way up the East Coast and finally made landfall at higher latitudes, just like 'Sandy.'

Conclusion: When the weather facts are examined objectively, Hurricane Sandy was not an "unprecedented" nor a "superstorm" severe weather event. And higher CO2 levels do not cause more hurricanes or stonger hurricanes to make landfall along the East Coast. To blame "climate change" and "global warming" for a 'Category 1' hurricane during the normal hurricane season is utter nonsense.

Previous severe weather postings and charts.

NOAA Confirms Hurricane Sandy Was Not A Result Of Ocean Global Warming, nor CO2

The NCDC (an agency of NOAA) publishes global ocean temperature records, which confirm that global warming of the oceans did not cause Hurricane Sandy - in fact, their most recent temperature measurements reveal that ocean temperatures have actually remained flat over last 15 years (thru September 2012), while CO2 levels have increased

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The chart on the left is a plot of global ocean temperatures for the 15-year period (180 months) ending September 2012. Clearly, since late 1997, global warming of the oceans has not happened and thus can not be the cause of Hurricane Sandy. (Unfortunately, some incredibly dishonest politicians and pundits have actually stated that anthropogenic global warming was the cause.)

The plot on the right represents ocean temperatures for the 15-year period ending September 1997. This chart depicts a modest warming trend of ocean waters, including an increase of CO2 levels.

When comparing the two different 15-year time periods, the following can be ascertained:

• CO2 levels for 15-year period ending Sept 2012: Increased by 30 ppm
  • Ocean linear temperature trend equates to: +0.007 degree increase by year 2100
    • Polynomial trend and 3-year average indicate a cooling is in process
      
• CO2 levels for the 15-year period ending Sept 1997: Increased by 22 ppm
  • Ocean linear temperature trend equates to: +1.10 degree increase by year 2100
    • Polynomial trend and 3-year average confirmed a warming trend during this previous 15-year period

Conclusions: The growing increases of atmospheric CO2 levels have not caused a global warming of the oceans over the last 15 years. Global warming was not the cause of Hurricane Sandy, which was essentially a typical weather hurricane that naturally occurs.

Additional temperature & climate charts.