The hallmark of an agenda-pu$hing, controlled-oppo$ition effort!
I'm sure carbon credits are a good investment for those wanting to save the world, and by that I mean the good-hearted elite taking such good care of us all as they profit tremendously.
"Protesters stage Wall Street sit-in over climate crisis" by Jennifer Peltz | Associated Press September 23, 2014
NEW YORK — A day after 100,000 people marched to warn that climate change is destroying the Earth, more than 1,000 activists gathered Monday in Lower Manhattan’s financial district to protest what they said was corporate and economic institutions’ role in the climate crisis.
Good thing the same people will be underwriting that carbon credit scam the marchers so want.
Want to really limit emissions? Call for the war machine to be shut down and put a moratorium on fracking.
Three people had been arrested by 7 p.m., The New York Times reported, citing police. Officers had said the protesters did not obtain a permit for the rally.
But by and large, the police, office workers, and tourists watched as the activists chanted ‘‘We can’t take this climate heat; we’ve got to shut down Wall Street’’ and bounced two large, inflatable balloons meant to represent carbon dioxide bubbles. Police later punctured the balloons.
Ben Shapiro, an urban farmer and bread-maker from Youngstown, Ohio, said he didn’t participate in Sunday’s march but came specifically on Monday because he’s concerned about fracking, a technique that cracks open rock layers to free natural gas.
He said he believes the financial system enables pollution.
‘‘I wanted to come specifically to disrupt Wall Street because it’s Wall Street that’s fueling this,’’ Shapiro said while sitting next to the famed bull statue on Broadway. ‘‘I’m going after the source of the problem. . . . That means actively having to confront the system.’’
The kids that did that three years ago got their heads bashed in. I suppose you guys be going home after all this?
The organizers of #FloodWallStreet said the sit-in aimed to disrupt business in the financial district by targeting ‘‘corporate polluters and those profiting from the fossil fuel industry.’’
The protest took a tense turn when demonstrators, after several hours of sitting and chanting near the bull statue, decided to march up Broadway and onto Wall Street.
The protesters encountered barricades and a strong police presence outside the New York Stock Exchange. Some tried to push through the barricades, and tussles between demonstrators and police ensued.
Police used pepper spray as they tried to hold the barricade.
Also on Monday, climate researchers said ice in Arctic seas shrank this summer to the sixth-lowest level in 36 years of monitoring.
Actually, they set a record for ice cover.
If the government and propaganda pre$$ are going to lie about the weather, why should anything they say be believed. Too many holes in their arguments.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that the ice reached its seasonal minimum on Sept. 17 of 1.94 million square miles.
That’s down a bit from 2013, but not near as low as the record-setting 2012. It is still 19 percent below average.
Scientists are concerned about the ice melting from manmade global warming because the melting may change the weather across the planet. Studies have linked the ice melting to changes in the jet stream, which can produce extreme weather.
I actually feel sorry for these gas-spewing fart mi$ters. They are so pathetic.
A separate study released Monday found that warming temperatures in Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of North America over the past century closely followed natural changes in the wind, not increases in greenhouse gases related to global warming.
The study, which appeared in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, compared ocean surface temperatures from 1900 to 2012 to surface air pressure, a stand-in for wind measurements, and found a close match.
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Also see: Global Warming Activists Leave Garbage All Over NYC
Mass. students to join massive NYC climate change march
WTF, kids?
"At climate change march in New York, a call for action" by Lisa W. Foderaro | New York Times September 22, 2014
NEW YORK — Climate marches were held across the globe on Sunday.
And the generally glowing and sympathetic coverage clues you into this approved effort.
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The timing of the march was also significant in another regard. Last week, meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration revealed that this summer — the months of June, July, and August — was the hottest on record for the globe and that 2014 was on track to break the record for the hottest year, set in 2010.
Madness. Complete and utter madness.
What foul fart mist!
On Sunday, another report stated that global emissions of greenhouse gases jumped 2.3 percent in 2013 to record levels. The new numbers were from a tracking initiative called the Global Carbon Project and were published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Related: Fart-Misting Fudge-Packers
“Climate change is no longer an environmental issue; it’s an everybody issue,” Sam Barratt, a campaign director for the online advocacy group Avaaz, which helped plan the Manhattan march, said Friday.
“The number of natural disasters has increased and the science is so much more clear,” he added. “This march has many messages, but the one that we’re seeing and hearing is the call for a renewable revolution.”
Related: CLIMATEGATE: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
De Blasio’s administration announced this weekend a sweeping plan to overhaul energy efficiency standards in all city-owned buildings.
The international events were intended as smaller demonstrations in solidarity with New York, but some were drawing tens of thousands of people....
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"Scientists report global rise in greenhouse gas emissions" by Justin Gillis | New York Times September 22, 2014
NEW YORK — Global emissions of greenhouse gases jumped 2.3 percent in 2013 to record levels, scientists reported Sunday, in the latest indication that the world remains far off track in its efforts to control global warming.
The emissions growth last year was a bit slower than the average growth rate of 2.5 percent that prevailed during the past decade, and much of the dip was caused by an economic slowdown in China, which is the world’s largest source of emissions.
It is still not enough to make me want to wage war on them, sorry.
The new numbers, reported by a tracking initiative called the Global Carbon Project and published in the journal Nature Geoscience, come on the eve of a UN summit meeting meant to harness fresh political ambition in tackling climate change.
PFFFFFFTT!
Scientists said the figures show that vastly greater efforts would be needed to get the world on a course to keep long-term global warming within tolerable limits....
Cooling last 16 years, but never you mind that as you are shivering this winter.
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All that spew couldn't have helped. Nor all John Kerry's globetrotting.
Also see:
Crews battle California fire’s explosive growth
All that Weed up in smoke!
Man arrested in fast-growing California wildfire
Scapegoating.
32 structures destroyed in California wildfire
Thousands of homes threatened by wildfire
All the smoke actually helps cool the planet, but let's go for a dip in the bay:
"In Maine, scientists see signs of climate change" by David Abel | Globe Staff September 21, 2014
In a state with the highest percentage of forested land and a long, famously scenic coastline, where timber and fisheries remain at the heart of the economy, climate change has become an immediate concern.
Heat waves, more powerful storms, and rising seas are increasingly transforming Maine — effects that most climate scientists trace to greenhouse gases warming the planet. Wedged between powerful streams of cold and warm air, the state is buffeted by climate fluctuations in the arctic and the Gulf of Maine, both of which are warming rapidly.
Over the past 100 years, temperatures throughout the Northeast have risen by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a federal report released this year known as the National Climate Assessment. Precipitation has increased by more than 10 percent, with the worst storms bringing significantly more rain and snow. And sea levels have climbed by a foot. A study by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute this year found that coastal waters are warming at a rate faster than 99 percent of the world’s other oceans.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Maine, scientists say, is uniquely vulnerable.
“More than any other state, because of its immense natural resources and where it’s located, Maine is particularly sensitive to changes in climate,” said Paul Andrew Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. “We’re heavily dependent on stability in the environment, but we’re going in the direction of instability. We’re at the beginning of abrupt climate changes.”
How much more funding you $cienti$ts need, and where does it come from?
The National Climate Assessment’s predictions for the future are grim: Temperatures are projected to continue their rise, up by as much as 10 degrees by the end of the century. Sea levels could increase as much as 4 feet. Storms will likely grow in intensity, while heat-related deaths in a state where much of the population is elderly and lacks air conditioning are expected to climb as well.
We have been hearing this crap for decades and it HAS NOT HAPPENED!!!!!
Some benefits may come with these trends — a longer growing season, more tourists drawn to the state’s coast and other attractions by generally more temperate weather.
Yeah, human health always did better in a warming world. It's a fact of history. Too bad we are in a cooling phase, and I -- for once -- am looking forward to a damn hard winter!
And not all experts accept the specifics of the forecast — some call the estimates alarmist; others, too cautious.
But the scientific consensus is growing. Some of Maine’s natural marvels will soon feel the impact of climate change. Or they already have.
So you say, Glob.
Moose are coping with more tick-borne diseases. Puffins are at risk as their prey, such as herring, dwindle and move further north. Lobster and clams are suffering shell disease that has been linked to the acidification of coastal waters.
Maybe it was the radioactive swill spewing out of Fukushima and into the Pacific all these years.
The warning signs are getting harder to ignore.
You guys ignore Fukushima enough.
Rare disease imperils frogs
In Brunswick last year, Nat Thoreau Wheelwright waded into his backyard pond for a swim and noticed something more disturbing than the usual bounty of slithering leeches.
Thousands upon thousands of tadpoles — clumps of them floating or mired in the bottom murk — had died overnight. “It was like an entire city had been wiped out,” he said.
A frog Holocaust™.
Btw, what about the bats and bees?
A day before, Wheelwright, chairman of the biology department at Bowdoin College, had noticed a thriving population of the wood frog tadpoles flitting through the copper water, which he monitors as vigilantly as his namesake observed Walden. He estimated that more than 200,000 tadpoles had died within 21 hours — which would make it the largest, most rapid mass death of amphibians ever reported in academic literature, he said.
Was it a strange but very localized catastrophe, or a kind of alarm bell? Wheelwright set out to find out. He sent several of the bloated tadpoles to colleagues at the University of Tennessee, who confirmed his suspicions through DNA analysis. They had died as the result of ranavirus, a disease that scientists say is a leading reason why 1 in 3 amphibians around the world are at risk of extinction.
It was the second known account of a die-off in Maine associated with ranavirus. The disease has thrived and moved north with the milder winters of recent years and the spread of invasive species, devastation that Wheelwright and colleagues described this summer in the journal Herpetological Review.
My alarm goes off every time I see an agenda-pushing lie in my Boston Globe.
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The warmer waters have likely benefited lobster growth and propagation in recent years, but scientists worry that as coastal waters continue to heat up, the lobster could follow the path of cod, which thrive in colder waters and are vanishing from the Gulf of Maine....
Or it could be overfishing like with the Cod.
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Where are these "milder winters" when it comes to explaining the $hitty economy sea are told retracted in the first quarter due to a harsh winter?
Please straighten out the contradictory propaganda and stop lying.
"100% of power for Vermont city now renewable" by Wilson Ring | Associated Press September 15, 2014
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Another caveat that, to some, minimizes the 100 percent achievement is that both Burlington and Washington Electric sell renewable energy credits for the renewable power they produce to utilities in southern New England, where their value is highest. In turn, they buy less expensive credits from other sources to offset the credits they have sold.
Sandy Levine, of the Vermont office of the Conservation Law Foundation, commended Vermont utilities for seeking renewable sources of power but questioned the credit trading.
‘‘They are selling the renewable energy credits to customers in other states. Those customers have the renewable and clean energy benefits of that power,’’ Levine said. ‘‘Simply using accounting measures to make claims about clean energy doesn’t get us there.’’
Better get the Wall Street banks in here to help us $ort it all out.
Taylor Ricketts, the director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, an interdisciplinary research center that works on sustainability issues at the University of Vermont, said reaching 100 percent was a big achievement.
‘‘It definitely makes me feel better here at UVM to know that every time I turn on a light switch or fire up my computer or anything else, to know that it’s 100 percent renewable,’’ he said.
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"More than 140 Illinois middle-school students and adults were sent to hospitals Monday after becoming ill because of a carbon monoxide leak caused by a faulty furnace flue, school district and fire officials said....
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I guess lightning can strike twice.
Robert Redford talks Elizabeth Warren, news, and climate change
I'm tired of elite celebrity and the big game, and I'm not the only one.
