"Britain has experienced uncommonly frigid weather in the last few months, which has disrupted transportation services and electricity supply in many areas of the nation. Meanwhile, death rates are believed to have been heightened by more than 5000 by the acutely frigid March. The elderly, impoverished, ailing and homeless persons were believed to be most at risk as Britain shivered through the second-coldest March on record.
There were 33500 deaths overall over the first three weeks of March, up from an average of 29294 in recent years, as per the Office for National Statistics. Another 1000 deaths are predicted for the ultimate week of March. The Department of Health has, however, mentioned that the death statistics were provisional and should be treated with caution. In accordance with homeless charity, St. Mungo’s, its cold weather emergency shelter was opened three times in March to shelter the persons suffering cold weather." via Junk Science, via Tom Nelson
Snowy road in UK via Newstank, 4/5/13
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4/08/13, "Schwarzenegger: California's silent disaster," LA Times editorial by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold says hot weather is killing people, that humans have caused the hot weather, but he doesn't mention CO2, which is the entire basis for the claim of human caused warming. Perhaps he doesn't mention it because US CO2 has plunged and is going lower (citations below). The CO2 industry is based on the failed theory that US CO2 would keep rising but it hasn't, in fact has dropped substantially over 20 years and especially since 2006 (citation below). CO2 has increased in China and other countries. If Arnold cared about California's atmosphere he'd know that scientists say a blanket of emissions from China sits on the US west coast. (Citations below). He'd know China's CO2 will continue to rise as it opens scores of new coal mines (citation below) emissions from which will flow to California. Arnold and his thug billionaire pals can keep stealing from poor and middle class Americans because it's so easy.
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Ed. note: Civilized people want clean air and water and to preserve the environment. That's something entirely different from saying CO2 is a poison which must be the central focus of the federal government as it has been for over two decades:
Global Warming ‘action’ was mandated and institutionalized in US government in 1990 by George Bush the 1st in the “U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990.” CO2 reduction is mentioned near the end in Sec. 204, item 4.
Devoting 13 federal agencies to ‘climate’ matters is hardly lagging in “action.”
Arnold is selling "human caused" warming without the long alleged human cause, CO2, the basis for the entire "climate" industry. Without rising CO2 it's not "human caused" warming:
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Arnold, did you know that a man who started a deadly California fire recently got the death sentence?
1/28/13, "Arsonist gets death for Calif. fire that killed 5," AP
"He was convicted in August 2012 of five counts of first-degree murder and two counts of arson."
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6/4/12, “Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006,” Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
“Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord.…
Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …
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Arnold:
News of US CO2 plunge has been described as:
- “Surprising,“
- “little noticed,“
- “dramatic,“
- “stunner,“
- “most people are surprised to learn,“
- “quiet but tremendous progress,”
- “major long term implications,”
- “game changing,”
- “shocker,”
- “huge contrast to the forecast.”
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2/7/13, "U.S. Carbon Emissions Dip To 1994 Levels," Russell McLendon, Mother Nature Network via Forbes
"Not since 1994 have U.S. CO2 emissions been as low as they were in 2012, according to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Output of the heat-trapping gas fell 13 percent in the past five years, putting the country well on its way to meeting President Obama’s target of cutting emissions 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020. By the end of last year, U.S. CO2 emissions were already down 10.5 percent from the 2005 baseline....
Coal represented just 18.1 percent of all U.S. power sources in 2012, down from 22.5 percent in 2007."...
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"No other country matched US 2012 CO2 reduction":
1/4/13, “An American Triumph: US Carbon Emissions In 2012 Fall 4% & 12% From Peak Level In 2007,” John Hanger.blogspot.com
Through September 2012, carbon emissions were "down every month in 2012, when compared to each of the first 9 months of 2011 and 2010. No other country matches that record.
www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec12_3.pdf/sec12_3.pdf/."
EIA US emissions 1973 through Sept. 2012
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4/21/12, “Why [CO2] Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe,” by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, newgeography.com
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“As we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started
going down in 2005 and are
expected to decline further over the next decade.”
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2013 winter rain and snow significantly mitigate effects of 2012 drought:
3/4/13, "Drought areas shrinking as snow and rain fall," Reuters
"Crop-friendly snowfall will be moving from the Northern Plains into the central and eastern Midwest overnight Monday and Tuesday, leaving up to an additional six to eight inches of snow, an agricultural meteorologist said on Monday....
Meteorologists said the significant winter rainfall and snow have so far eliminated the drought, the worst in 50 years in the United States, in an area roughly from Illinois eastward."...
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Arnold, nearly a third of air over California is from Asia:
7/20/2007, "Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in Climate," WSJ, Robert Lee Hotz
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"On some days, almost a third of the air over Los Angeles and San Francisco can be traced directly to Asia. With it comes up to three-quarters of the black carbon particulate pollution that reaches the West Coast, Dr. Ramanathan and his colleagues recently reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
This transcontinental pollution is part of a growing global traffic in dust and aerosol particles made worse by drought and deforestation, said Steven Cliff, who studies the problem at the University of California at Davis.
Aerosols -- airborne microscopic particles -- are produced naturally every time a breeze catches sea salt from ocean spray, or a volcano erupts, or a forest burns, or a windstorm kicks up dust, for example. They also are released in exhaust fumes, factory vapors and coal-fired power plant emissions....
Asia is the world's largest source of aerosols, man-made and natural. Every spring and summer, storms whip up silt from the Gobi desert of Mongolia and the hardpan of the Taklamakan desert of western China, where, for centuries, dust has shaped a way of life."...
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1/16/13, "China's Green Leap Backward," The Nation, Lucia Green-Weiskel
"But by the end of 2012, even the most optimistic surveys of China’s energy mix showed that low-carbon growth is still nowhere near mainstream. In fact, the clean-tech industry is encountering major obstacles, with government officials admitting to “broad operational difficulties” regarding the latest solar power expansion. For many Beijingers, it is difficult to maintain enthusiasm for China’s so-called leadership in low-carbon growth when the city’s air is rapidly deteriorating. A mid-January reading from the US embassy showed the Air Quality Index at a shocking 728—on a scale of 1 to 500, with 200 considered a serious health risk.
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April 2011, "Air Pollution in China, Facts and Details," Jeffrey Hays
"The Japanese professor Fumitaka Yanagisawa said that when he presented a paper at a Chinese university that suggested some pollution in Japan originated in China he was booed by the audience and said “even now it’s sort of taboo to mention cross-border pollution when I’m invited to give a speech in China.” Reiko Sodeno, of the Japanese environmental ministry, told AFP, “It will have adverse affects if we push China too much on cross-border pollution...Blaming other countries wouldn’t help to solve the problem, as it only hurts national pride.”"...(see sub-heading, 'Chinese air pollution goes abroad')
"Soot, dust and chemical pollutants from China have been captured in a weather observation stations on the summit of Mount Bachelor in Cascade Range in Oregon. Soot, dust, ozone and nitrous oxides can be detected by satellites moving across the Pacific." (see sub-head, 'Chinese air pollution reaches the United States')
"Electricity prices in China are half of those in developed countries."...(under sub-head, 'Cleaning up air pollution in China').
"Even if China increased the efficiency of its coal burning power plants, it wouldn't make much of difference because so many small industries and households burn coal for heating, cooking and power."...(sub-head, 'Success and limitations in cleaning up air pollution in China')."...
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8/26/2007, "As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes," NY Times, J. Kahn, J. Yardley
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"(Communist Chinese) Provincial officials, who enjoy substantial autonomy, often ignore environmental edicts, helping to reopen mines or factories closed by central authorities. Over all, enforcement is often tinged with corruption. This spring, officials in Yunnan Province in southern China beautified Laoshou Mountain, which had been used as a quarry, by spraying green paint over acres of rock. (p. 2 of 6) ...
Beijing also insists that it will accept no mandatory limits on its carbon dioxide emissions, which would almost certainly reduce its industrial growth. It argues that rich countries caused global warming and should find a way to solve it without impinging on China’s development....(p. 2 of 6)
"Senior leaders are either too timid to enforce their orders, or the fast-growth political culture they preside over is too entrenched to heed them....
China cannot go green, in other words, without political change....(p. 5 of 6, bottom)
"Today, a culture of collusion between government and business has made all but the most pro-growth government policies hard to enforce."...(p. 6 of 6. 2nd para.)
"Officials have rejected proposals to introduce surcharges on electricity and coal to reflect the true cost to the environment. The state still controls the price of fuel oil, including gasoline, subsidizing the cost of driving. (p. 6)"...
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Southeast Asian aerosols impact SW US rainfall:
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5/18/12, "CO2 Not to Blame for Southwest Droughts?" World Climate Report
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"Now comes along a new paper published in Nature magazine by Robert Allen and colleagues which suggests that the drying trend which remains is being caused more by black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone than by greenhouse gas emissions. ...
"According to Allen et al.:
“Our analysis strongly suggests that recent Northern Hemisphere tropical expansion is driven mainly by black carbon and tropospheric ozone, with greenhouse gases playing a smaller part.”...The authors argue that there is a good likelihood that black carbon emissions have been underestimated—especially those arising from Southeast Asia....
The bottom line is that the primary influences on a major component of the earth’s atmospheric circulation and thus general weather patterns turns out to be, on further examination, not atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration changes, but rather black carbon (soot) and tropospheric ozone. And one impact from the forced atmospheric circulation changes is a tendency for more aridity across the Southwestern U.S."....
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8/9/12, "Scientists find 50-year decline in some Los Angeles vehicle-related pollutants," AGU, American Geophysical Union
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"In California’s Los Angeles Basin, levels of some vehicle-related air pollutants have decreased by about 98 percent since the 1960s, even as area residents now burn three times as much gasoline and diesel fuel. Between 2002 and 2010 alone, the concentration of air pollutants called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) dropped by half, according to a new study by NOAA scientists and colleagues.
“The reason is simple: Cars are getting cleaner,” said Carsten Warneke, a NOAA-funded scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.
VOCs, primarily emitted from the tailpipes of vehicles, are a key ingredient in the formation of ground-level ozone which, at high levels, can harm people’s lungs and damage crops and other plants.
The magnitude of the drop in VOC levels was surprising, even to researchers who expected some kind of decrease resulting from California’s longtime efforts to control vehicle pollution.
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“Even on the most polluted day during a research mission in 2010, we measured half the VOCs we had seen just eight years earlier,” Warneke said. “The difference was amazing.”
The study was published online today in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, a journal of the American Geophysical Union."...
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11/23/11, "Europe's $287 billion carbon 'waste': UBS report," The Australian, by Sid Maher
"SWISS banking giant UBS says the European Union's emissions trading scheme has cost the continent's consumers $287 billion for "almost zero impact" on cutting carbon emissions."...EU CO2 trading provided "windfall profits" to participants paid for by "electricity customers.""
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Arnold, coal's renaissance across Europe may be unfortunate but it's a fact that effects Californians:
4/3/13, "CO2 Emissions: Can Europe Save Its Cap-and-TradeSystem?" Der Spiegel, by Nils Klawitter
Given such conditions, coal is seeing a renaissance that was hardly thought possible. Because certificates are so cheap, it is much more cost-effective to pollute the air with coal-fired power plants than switch to more environmentally friendly energy generation technologies."...
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India is planning 455 new coal plants, China 363:
1/19/12, "More than 1,000 New Coal Plants Planned Worldwide," Damian Carrington, UK Guardian
"More than 1,000 coal-fired power plants are being planned worldwide, new research has revealed....
The huge planned expansion comes despite warnings from politicians, scientists and campaigners that the planet's fast-rising carbon emissions must peak within a few years if runaway climate change
is to be avoided and that fossil fuel assets risk becoming worthless if
international action on global warming moves forward....
The capacity of the new plants add up to 1,400GW to global greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of adding another China – the world's biggest emitter."...
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Impact of Asian aerosols on both US and the Arctic is noted in 2005 and co-authored by James Hansen:
Per James Hansen and Dorothy Koch, Arctic black carbon comes mainly from Communist China and India:
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Between 1980 and 1995, "BC (black carbon) emissions from developed countries have declined and aircraft are apparently not to blame. However, during this time BC emissions from China and India have nearly doubled:"
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2/25/2005, "Distant origins of Arctic black carbon: A Goddard Institute for Space Studies ModelE experiment," Dorothy Koch and James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Journal of Geophysical Research
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.p.1 "Black carbon (BC) particles, derived from incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass, may have a severe impact on the sensitive Arctic climate, possibly altering the temperature profile, cloud temperature and amount, the seasonal cycle, and the tropopause level and accelerating polar ice melting. We use the Goddard Institute for Space Studies general circulation model to investigate the origins of Arctic BC by isolating various source regions and types. The model suggests that the predominant sources of Arctic soot today are from south Asia (industrial and biofuel emissions) and from biomass burning.
These are the primary global sources of BC (approximately 20% and 55%, respectively, of the global emissions), and BC aerosols in these regions are readily lofted to high altitudes where they may be transported poleward. According to the model the Arctic BC optical thickness is mostly from south Asia (30%) and from biomass (28%) (with slightly more than half of biomass coming from north of 40 N)."...
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Jan. 15, 2013, “Global Temperature Update Through 2012, 15 January 2013,” Columbia University, J. Hansen, M. Sato, R. Rudy
(page 1): “Summary. …”The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slowdown in the growth rate of the net climate forcing….
(page 1, parag. 3): “The approximate stand-still of global temperature during 1940-1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use with little control on particulate air pollution, but satisfactory quantitative interpretation has been impossible because of the absence of adequate aerosol measurements 3,4.”…
Page 6 details problem predicting future “climate change” referenced on p. 1 above, ie lack of data on aerosols, and that the one US satellite designed to measure them crashed on takeoff and no plans exist to restart the mission."...
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Der Spiegel cites 15 yr. "global warming pause":
1/18/2013, "Climate change: scientists puzzle over halt in global warming," Der Spiegel, Axel Bojanowski
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"The upward trend in the average global temperature has not continued since 1998. "The stalemate has led to the suggestion that global warming had stopped," admits the Nasa.
The British Met Office forecast even more recently that the temperature interval could continue at a high level until the end of 2017 - despite the rapid increase in greenhouse gas emissions . Then global warming would pause 20 years. How many years, this is a now common question, because the temperature would still falter, climate scientists to rethink their forecasts of future warming?...
Climate forecasts for periods of several years therefore remain particularly uncertain: "Our prediction system lets us down in this regard yet," says MPI Director Marotzke....His NASA colleague Norman Loeb points out that data gaps will continue to provide surprises:
"When is the data collection everywhere room for improvement," says the expert. Especially for short-term climatic trends so it could continue to be surprises."...
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UK Climate Chief Pachauri says Central North America experiences less drought:
11/28/12, UN Climate Chief Pachauri notes droughts are less frequent, less intense or shorter in Central North America
page 2, end of parag. 5:
“There is medium confidence that since the 1950‘s some regions of the world have experienced a trend to more intense and longer droughts, in particular in Southern Europe and West Africa,
but in some regions
droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example
in Central North America
and Western Australia.”…
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3/29/13, "Cost of Environmental Damage in China Growing Rapidly Amid Industrialization," NY Times, Edward Wong
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China coal use to rise:
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2/26/13, "Tough Truths from China on CO2 and Climate," Andrew Revkin, NY Times, Dot Earth
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"I’m way overdue to post excerpts here from an extraordinary recent China Dialogue with Zou Ji, the deputy director of China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy. (China Dialogue is a fascinating independent dual-language blog...).
The interview is blunt and crystal clear in laying out the demographic and economic realities that will, for many years to come, slow any shift from Chinese dependence on coal. Zou Ji has a remarkable resume for someone now working inside the Chinese establishment, having worked previously as the China director for the World Resources Institute."...
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8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos
“In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years."...
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UN IPCC Chief Pachauri says Global warming hasn't happened for 17 years:
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2/21/13, "IPCC Head Pachauri Acknowledges Global Warming Standstill," The Australian, Graham Lloyd
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"The UN’s climate change chief, Rajendra Pachauri, has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises, confirmed recently by Britain’s Met Office, but said it would need to last “30 to 40 years at least” to break the long-term global warming trend.
Dr Pachauri, the chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that open discussion about controversial science and politically incorrect views was an essential part of tackling climate change.
In a wide-ranging interview on topics that included this year's record northern summer Arctic ice growth, the US shale-gas revolution, the collapse of renewable energy subsidies across Europe and the faltering European carbon market, Dr Pachauri said no issues should be off-limits for public discussion.
In Melbourne for a 24-hour visit to deliver a lecture for Deakin University, Dr Pachauri said that people had the right to question the science, whatever their motivations. "...
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Trillions have been taken from US taxpayers for climate endeavors via agency budget allocations, tax subsidies, diversion of US military to climate or green projects, countless federal regulations, vast sums shipped out in no strings foreign aid for ‘climate’ capacity building, etc.
Other countries’ CO2 hasn’t dropped despite hundreds of billions spent on cap and trade and extra taxes. This isn’t to say the US government hasn’t become business partners with the ‘climate’ industry.
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