EPA Now Says Carbon Dioxide is Greenhouse Gas That Will be Regulated

On Monday, The Environmental Protection Agency  has announced the carbon dioxide  as greenhouse gas harmful to humans.

The decision by the EPA allows the agency to regulate co2 and other greenhouse gases and forces business to make expensive changes to factories to comply. The  EPA ruling could affect the economy rapidly than cap-and-trade  legislation or any agreement at the climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Business  organizations opposed the ruling reducing gases that common as Carbon Dioxide.

The EPA ruling would “could result in a top-down command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue said in a statement. “The devil will be in the details, and we look forward to working with the government to ensure we don’t stifle our economic recovery,” he said, noting that the group supports federal legislation.

The EPA regulations will not impact climate change “is certain to come at a huge cost to the economy,” said the National Association of Manufacturers, a trade group that stands as a proxy for U.S. industry.

A spokesman for Edison Electric Institute Said the EPA is less likely than the US Congress for ”economywide approach” to regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Dan Reidinger says the power industry group prefers such an approach would place the burden across other industries.

Republicans asked the White House to withdraw the finding do the e-mail controversy by climate changer supporters fudging with the data from scientist from Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom.

However, the Obama Administration is standing the by the data.

A spokesman for the EPA says the data is “very strong,” and that when it is published, “we invite the public to review the extensive scientific analysis informing” the decision.

Wall Street Journal has more.

At Copenhagen Summit Christmas Trees are Not Welcome.

If you are reading this from the  Copenhagen summit  and wondering where the are Christmas Trees with decorations sorry  you won’t find them The UN has banned the trees and the holiday decorations.  (The Nordman Fir is commonly  used for Christmas in Denmark) .

Why because Danish Foreign Minister spokesperson  Svend Olling who is charged practical planning for the climate summit decided to eliminate the trees.

Christmas is a  religious holiday and does not  belong at a United Nations function.

‘We have to remember that this is a UN conference and, as the centre then becomes UN territory, there can be no Christmas trees in the decor, because the UN wishes to maintain neutrality,’ said Olling.

Ironically, the Nordman Fir is the most ecologically sound there is. Firs are the best in holding down carbon dioxide from releasing into the atmosphere.

Copenhagen Post

Researcher Suing NASA over Climate Change Data

As Climate Gates explodes a conservative researcher with the Competitive Enterprise Institute is suing NASA over its climate change data.

Chris Horner a senior fellow with the competitive Enterprise Institute says NASA have refused to offer climate facts to him  and other Climate Change skeptics via the Freedom of Information Act. By keeping  the data private NASA shaping climate information and would be  forced to explain why their data continually corrected going back to as far as the 1930’s.

“I assume that what is there is highly damaging,” Mr. Horner said. “These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.”

In 2007 NASA recalculated its data and found that 1934 not 1998 was the hottest year on record(modern history). Later NASA recalculated again and was right 1998 but also found that 2006 tied as hottest years.

Horner the author of  “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism” wants to review the data and the discussions that went into these changes.   He’s given NASA until the end of the year or he’ll sue.

This is an same fight that took place at Climate Research Unit, at  University of East Anglia, Norwich,UK. Critics have sue to revealed via the UK’s Freedom of Information Laws. However, a hacker broke into  the computer system at UEA illegally obtain thousand of e-mails admitting to changing the facts to make it fit to their conclusions and  denounce critics.

Prof. Phil Jones,  Director of the Climate Research Unit has stepped down during the investigation.

The CRU also announce in responding to freedom of information law that threw away all data from the temperature models when moved to a new and larger facility in the late 1980’s.

Horner believes that NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was cutting playing fast and  loose with their data. GISS is another global warming research facility.

A  spokesman for Goddard Institute for Space Studies could not account for the delay in providing the competitive enterprise institute is data But they are  working on the request.

“We’re collecting the information and will respond with all the responsive relevant information to all of his requests,” Mr. Hess said. “It’s just a process you have to go through where you have to collect data that’s responsive.”

Mark Hess, public affairs director for the Goddard Space Flight Center was unaware to the situation at the University of East Anglia. Hess could not say if NASA is susceptible to the problems Climate Research Institute is experiencing.

The White House  has dismissed the e-mail controversy as irrelevant.

“Several thousand scientists have come to the conclusion that climate change is happening. I don’t think that’s anything that is, quite frankly, among most people, in dispute anymore,” press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters this week.

Republicans in Congress are demanding investigation into the e-mail controversy. They also sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, Wednesday to hold off implementing new regulations until the science of climate change be proven. However some scientists are rallying behind the researchers at Climate Research Unit.

Prof. Michael Mann a global warming scientist at Pennsylvania State University,  who is the US leading expert and himself in the center of  e-mail controversy. Mann says the e-mail leak  set up to put the breaks on the Copenhagen accords.

“They’ve taken scientists’ words and phrases and quoted them out of context, completely misrepresenting what they were saying,” Mr. Mann told AccuWeather.com in an interview, calling it a “manufactured controversy.”

GISS originally listed the hottest years as 1998, 1934, 2006, 1921 and 1931. However, Canadian  skeptic Steve McIntyre, who runs ClimateAudit.com. McIntyre questioned the data

GISS rejiggered the list and 1934 was warmest, followed by 1998, 1921, 2006 and then 1931. But since then, the list has been rewritten again so it now runs 1998, 2006, 1934, 1921, 1999.

GISS said it was “minor data processing error” and the top three years remained the same.

Washington Times

Obama Scientists Standby Climategate Research

Hellbent politicians including The Obama Administration Science Advisor Dr. John Holdren formerly of Harvard University and  Jane Lubchenco a marine biologist and the head of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are standing by the research by the Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia in Norwich, England,UK   and Prof. Micheal Mann  of   Pennsylvania  State University.

The two of several scientists testified in House sub-committee on Wednesday. House Republicans led by James Sensenbrenner  Republican leader of the House sub-committee on Global Warming set  the  stage attacked the issue of global warming  by bringing up the hacked e-mails one e-mail was  written by John Holdren in 2003.

Sensenbrenner charges deceit by climate change scientists “These e-mails show a pattern of suppression, manipulation and secrecy that was inspired by ideology, condescension and profit,” said U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.

Holdren defended the scientific research says that the science is proper and the letters is a small fraction of research on the issue.

The e-mails do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus … that tells us the earth is warming, that warming is largely a result of human activity,” said scientist  Lubchenco.

Lubchencho says the e-mails do not include e-mails from NOAA and NASA which are independent of the  data records of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit at the heart of the scandal.

Lubachenco performed a couple of  scientific experiment to prove her point. In the first experiment she added liquid  carbon dioxide to water to  show the water became acidic to show carbon dioxide is polluting waters . She followed up  with the second experiment by adding chalk to acidic water the water dissolved a little bit that this will happen to all sea life.

Congressman Sensenbrenner read another e-mail from Prof Jones  about “trick of adding in the real temps” involving long range global warming temperatures. Holdren said trick did not mean manipulate but a “clever way” to tackle a problem. Another e-mail Jones said he wished climate change happening so the science was proved right.

US Representative Jay Inslee,(D-WA) defended the scientists by saying the e-mail aren’t stopping Arctic from melting, glaciers from melting and the oceans  from getting acidic. Inslee asked sarcastically if Holdren and Lubchenco if they were part of a conspiracy.

Sensenbrenner chastised Holdren of mocking scientists critical of  climate change.

AP via Brietbart News has more.

Penn State to Investigate “Climategate” Proffessor

Penn State University has announce the will investigate Professor Michael Mann who along with Prof. Dr.Phil Jones of University of East Anglia’ Climate Research Unit in the UK  which is the center of the “climategate” scandal.

Leaked E-mails that placed on Russian website which showed the climate researchers including Jones of East Anglia and Penn State’s Mann discussed manipulating data involving in calculations to support their claims of world-wide temperatures on the rise.

Critics of Global Warming /Climate Change have alleged that Jones contacted other researchers asked them to “delete certain e-mails”

On Tuesday Prof. Jones has announced to step aside as director of CRU while the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England will investigate the break in the Climate Research Unit and the hacked and  leaked e-mails.

Penn State will not comment on the investigations. If further investigative actions needed the University will follow-up a spokesperson told Daily Collegian. A panel set up to read each and  every leaked e-mail see if the critics of Climate Change accusations are valid.

“I would be disappointed if the university wasn’t doing all [it] can to get as much information as possible” about the controversy, Mann tells the Daily Collegian.

US News and World Report

Climategate: White House Standby Global Warming

Just days before the President Obama leaves for the Copenhagen  meeting on  climate change; White  Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the Obama Administration standby global warming.

Despite the uproar involving the release of the hacked e-mails that show that the scientists have been  manipulating the data supporting their theories.

The   Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia in Norwich,England has caused firestorm of controversy when a blogger hacked into the CRU computer system and placed the e-mails and other documents on a blog   based in Russia, has  appeared to contradict  the theories by  supporters of Climate  Change.

Letter from Profs. Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia and  Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University shows how the scientists used method to prove global warming.

Press Secretary Gibbs says that the White House believes “climate change is happening.”

“I don’t think that’s anything that is, quite frankly, among most people, in dispute anymore,” he said during Monday’s press briefing.

“I think there’s no real scientific basis for the dispute of this,” responded Gibbs to questions about those scientists’ credibility.

Climate Change critic Senator James Inhofe,(R-OK) the ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee;wonders about the decision to standby Global Warming Theories and has called for investigation into the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to find out if it “cooked the science to make this thing look as if the science was settled, when all the time of course we knew it was not.”

“[T]his thing is serious, you think about the literally millions of dollars that have been thrown away on some of this stuff that they came out with,” he told reporters, noting it was “interesting” the e-mails surfaced before the Copenhagen summit.

The Hill

Climate Change Data Trashed

Last week and a half ago leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Norwich,England Climate Research Unit was found on a Russian website which began a chain reaction and calls that Global Warming are fraud and hoax. Now another bombshell has exploded.

Several ask via the United Kingdom’s Freedom of Information laws(Similar to  the Freedom of Information Act in the United States.) has revealed that much to information based on 150 years trashed. The Climate Research Unit admitted that they trashed the information when the Climate Research Unit moved to a new facility.

That means other research scientist will not able to able to check calculations that would show long-term  global temperature rising over the last 150 years.

The information gather from weather station from an around the world;  then adjusted for variations in the way they were collected. The originals were handwritten and on magnetic tape both thrown away to save space when the CRU moved into a larger facility.

In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenized) data.”

Climate Change critics   needed to see  the documents   to find how the data complied. Now that lost  forever.

One scientist Roger Peilke professor of Environmental Studies at Colorado University discovered  the data missing when he request the records.

“The CRU is basically saying, ‘Trust us’. So much for settling questions and resolving debates with science,” he said.

Prof. Phil Jones,was not at the CRU  in the 1980s when the docs was discarded.  The Lost data was used to create a database that has Jones’ data base showing the world temperatures rising by 0.8 Celsius .

Jones and his  colleagues  the temperature  increase                      “unequivocally” and  is due to greenhouse gases. The finding used by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says global warming is a detriment to society and planet.

Copenhagen  Must postponed no treaties, no agreements, no one red cent until the truth comes out.

Times Of London

Climate Change Scientist Told to Resign

The Director of  Climate Research Unit at University of East Anglia was asked to  resign after the scandal of hacked e-mails from CRU placed on mirror websites and leak to the media including The Drudge Report. Professor Phil Jones who ran the unit was asked leave by George Monbiot a leading environmentalist. Jones allegedly in these e-mails said to suppress scientific data supporting their theory of  Global  Warming.

More e-mail released today, in one e-mail in particular an American Climatologist  lamented that science  could explain away the recent temperature declines.

Daily Mail has the rest of the story.

Syria Suppected in Hiding It’s Nuclear Ambitions

The International Atomic Energy Agency charge Syria of  not declaring its stockpile  uranium at two  nuclear power plants.  The IAEA  discover trace amounts uranium at  Dair Alzour nuclear facility. The information came from an agency report. Syria blames Israel missiles that destroyed the  al-Kibar reactor in 2007.

Uranium particles was found at a second site: The miniature Neutron Source  Reactor. The Syrian Government claims it come from samples involving neutron activation analysis.

The IAEA not  buying the answer.

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British Climate Leader Says Stop Eating Meat to Save the Planet

A leader in global climate change Lord Stern say one way to end climate change is to go vegan. Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

Emissions from pigs and cows is a significant source of methane which a greenhouse gas. Methane is 23 times stronger that carbon dioxide as a gas.

Lord Stern author the 2006 Stern Review of the cost of global warming said that a good outcome of  the  upcoming Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen  would including higher food cost that raise the price of meat and other food the contributes to massive amounts of greenhouse gasses.

Stern believe that Copenhagen presents a unique opportunity to for the world break free from the world current course. He believes the world need to change the output of worldwide greenhouses from 50 gigatons to 25 gigatons by 2030.

He believes that peoples attitudes will change. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”

Lord Stern is calling for US President Barack Obama to attend the Copenhagen conference in December so an effective agreement with the U.S.in the lead will be reached. He said, was “desperately needed” to secure a deal.

Critics calls it  foolish. Jonathan Scurlock, of the National Farmers Union, said: “Going vegetarian is not a worldwide solution. It’s not a view shared by the NFU. Farmers in this country are interested in evidence-based policy making. We don’t have a methane-free cow or pig available to us.”

Times of London.