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This claim is false and I know first hand having lived here all my life that Canada is getting much colder with the Polar Vortex coming down every year. The data shows Canada is barely warming at less than half of the UN predicted amount.Historic blizzard sets new all-time daily snowfall record -- Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaPosted by Julie Celestial onJanuary 20, 2020 at 15:04 UTC(1 year ago)Categories: Featured articles, Ice & snow, Severe stormsA powerful blizzard brought intense winds and record-breaking snowfall to parts of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador on Friday and Saturday, January 17 and 18, 2020. "It’s snow and a hurricane, and snow and a hurricane shuts down a city," Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan​ said, referring to the scale of the blizzard and epic snowfall rates in the province's capital, St. John's. One person is missing.The area of low pressure responsible for the snow and wind emerged from the northeastern United States early Thursday, January 16 and began to rapidly intensify as it moved over the Gulf of Maine, according to Environment Canada.The system deepened into a powerful storm as it tracked southeast of the Avalon Peninsula on Friday, before departing into the North Atlantic early Saturday, January 18.The storm battered the eastern half of the island with heavy snowfall, extremely high winds, and damaging coastal storm surge.Epic snowfall rates of more than 10 cm (3.9 inches) per hour were falling in St. John's at times through Friday morning. By the lunch hour, over 30 cm (11.8 inches) was already on the ground.In 24 hours ending 06:00 UTC on January 18 (02:30 NST), 76.2 cm (30 inches) of snow was recorded at St. John's International Airport, breaking the previous all-time daily snowfall record set on April 5, 1999, at 68.4 cm (27 inches).Canada is Warming at Only 1/2 the Rate of Climate Model Simulations3 weeks agoCharles RotterReposted from Dr. Roy Spencer’s BlogJanuary 21st, 2021 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.Canada has huge year-to-year variability in temperatures due to its strong continental climate. So, to examine how observed surface temperature trends compare to climate model simulations, you need many of those simulations, each of which exhibits its own large variability.I examined the most recent 30-year period (1991-2020), using a total of 108 CMIP5 simulations from approximately 20 different climate models, and computed land-surface trends over the latitude bounds of 51N to 70N, and longitude bounds 60W to 130W, which approximately covers Canada. For observations, I used the same lat/lon bounds and the CRUTem5 dataset, which is heavily relied upon by the UN IPCC and world governments. All data were downloaded from the KNMI Climate Explorer.First let’s examine the annual average temperature departures from the 1981-2010 average, for the average of the 108 model simulations compared to the observations. We see that Canada has been warming at only 50% the rate of the average of the CMIP5 models; the linear trends are +0.23 C/decade and +0.49 C/decade, respectively. Note that in 7 of the last 8 years, the observations have been below the average of the models.Fig. 1. Yearly temperature departures 1991-2020 from the 1981-2010 mean in Canada in observations (blue) versus the average of 108 CMIP5 climate model simulations (red). The +/-1 standard deviation bars indicate the variability among the 108 individual model simulations.Ottawa freezes its way to coldest capital city in the worldTemperature slipped below those of capitals in Russia, Kazakhstan and MongoliaCBC News ·Posted: Jan 19, 2019 9:44 AM ET | Last Updated: January 19Ottawa is the seventh coldest national capital in the world based on average annual temperature. (Canadian Press)If you were out early Saturday morning and felt like you were in the coldest place on earth, you were right — at least when it comes to capital cities around the globe.The temperature in Ottawa fell below every other national capital in the world on Saturday morning — and that doesn't include the wind chill.Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, is on average the coldest capital city in the world, according to World Atlas.But the temperature in Ottawa — ranked the seventh coldest capital based on annual average temperature — dipped to –24 C, compared to –23 C in Ulan Bator.With the wind chill it felt like minus Горящие туры из Минска: агентство SEAVIEW comparison here are the temperatures in other capital cities that are colder than Ottawa on average:Astana –3 CMoscow –4 CHelsinki –2 CReykjavik 1 CTallinn –2 CTo top it all off, Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning and a winter storm warning for Ottawa.Ottawa and some surrounding areas could see up to 25 centimetres of snow over the next 24 hours.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/o..Further, it does not matter as the so called global warming is global and Canada is not the centre of the climate universe at only 6% of the world’s land mass. We make no difference to global warming which is not happening.Writing in Real Clear Markets, Aaron Brown looked at the official NASA global temperature data and noticed something surprising. From February 2016 to February 2018, "global average temperatures dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius." That, he notes, is the biggest two-year drop in the past century."The 2016-2018 Big Chill," he writes, "was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average."https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-global-warming-earth-cooling-media-bias/Highest snowfall observed in N.L. storm was 93 cm: Environment CanadaBy Kerri Breen Global NewsPosted January 19, 2020 3:56 pmUpdated January 20, 2020 9:13 pmTimelapse captures the Newfoundland winter storm coming through before winds blow at night – Jan 19, 2020Newly-released figures from Environment Canada are shedding light on the magnitude of Newfoundland‘s historic blizzard.READ MORE: Troops arrive in Newfoundland to assist after historic blizzardGlobal temperatures are in a long term 7000 year decline.Holocene climatic optimum - WikipediaThis graph is taken from Wikipedia. It shows eight different reconstructions of Holocene temperature. The thick black line is the average of these. Time progresses from left to right.On this graph the Stone Age is shown only about one degree warmer than present day, but most sources mention that Scandinavian Stone Age was about 2-3 degrees warmer than the present; this need not to be mutually excluding statements, because the curve reconstructs the entire Earth's temperature, and on higher latitudes the temperature variations were greater than about equator.Some reconstructions show a vertical dramatic increase in temperature around the year 2000, but it seems not reasonable to the author, since that kind of graphs cannot possibly show temperature in specific years, it must necessarily be smoothed by a kind of mathematical rolling average, perhaps with periods of hundred years, and then a high temperature in a single year, for example, 2004 will be much less visible.The trend seems to be that Holocene's highest temperature was reached in the Hunter Stone Age about 8,000 years before present, thereafter the temperature has generally been steadily falling, however, superimposed by many cold and warm periods, including the modern warm period.However, generally speaking, the Holocene represents an amazing stable climate, where the cooling through the period has been limited to a few degrees.History of Earth's ClimateFurther the alleged double warming by Canada is not happening - there is nothing to reverse. If you live in Canada you know this data is bunk as Canada is bloody cold and much worse than usual for the past decade or more. Here are examples from the real world not fudged data.Climate change is any significant long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a region (or the whole Earth) over a significant period of time. W.This means while we can observe the weather we cannot ever observe climate change as it is just a made up statistic of weather over a long time scale.CANADA AND THE WORLD ARE IN THE GRIPS OF AN ICE AGE FROM 2.5 MILLION YEARS AGOWEATHER IS ALL THERE IS WHEN IT COMES TO CLIMATE CHANGEThe issue is whether there is a new average weather pattern measured over centuries or millennia that is not just natural variation? The answer is clearly no as the average weather swings naturally between hot and cold without an increase of more than 0.8 C over the past 150 years. This does not qualify for global warming climate change.It is relevant to observe the weather record both hot and cold as over time they will create a climate statistical base..The idea that Canada needs a carbon tax to prevent MORE above average warming here based on data over last 70 years is unbelievable. The data is surely suspect for those of us living here for the past 70 years. The proof the earth is cooling again is seen visibly by the expansion of polar ice POLAR VORTEX.EATHERJanuary 30, 2019 3:52 pmUpdated: January 31, 2019 4:28 pmCanadian prairies colder than North Pole, almost as cold as MarsBy Mike KoncanWeather Anchor/Reporter Global News43

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moreToronto under extreme cold weather alert ahead of big temperature drop SundayFullscreenWATCH: Extreme cold warnings for much of Canada- A A +ListenThe term ‘extreme’ has been circulating across the continent as provinces and states experience cold weather, but few places are as cold as the prairies.Polar Vortex is also a great buzzword, and it has a major impact on the weather and temperatures around a big chunk of the country.The atmospheric conditions are an upper level low pressure system higher up above the earth’s surface. Around the eastern prairies, a ridge of high pressure has built up, essentially meaning that the eastern prairies are getting a steady stream of air from the top of the world.READ MORE: Extreme cold warning continues along eastern SaskatchewanSimply put, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are being blasted by air from above the Arctic, making them the coldest places in the country, and quite possibly on the planet.Cold air sitting over much of Canada Wednesday Jan 30, 2019.Global NewsThe coldest place in the country on Wednesday is Key Lake Sask., with an air temperature reading of -47.2 Celsius.The award for coldest major city in Canada goes to Winterpeg. At 7 a.m. the temperature was -39.8 C and the wind chill was as cold as -52.Winnipeg has been dealing with colder than normal temperatures for almost two straight weeks. Typically this time of year, temperatures range from -21 C to -11 C. Only once in the last two weeks have temperatures gotten to that point — cold nights below -25 C have become the norm.Colder than where?When it gets this cold, it’s hard not to compare to other notable frozen locations, as it turns out, -39.8 C is hard to beat.The North Pole was expected to hover around -32 C Wednesday.Siberia, typically the coldest place on earth, will likely deal with light snow and temperatures ranging from -15 to -23 C. The winds there will also be light, so wind chill will not be much of a factor.Taking it out of our atmosphere, Mars hasn’t given an updated forecast for Wednesday, but expected a high of -7 C Tuesday. Even though the forecasted low was -70 C, an afternoon on the red planet doesn’t sound so bad compared to Winnipeg.WATCH: Winnipeg’s freezing cold temperatures are colder than MarsThe extended cold snap for around the prairies has broken some records in northern Manitoba but nothing for Winnipeg. Record lows this time of year usually range between -40 and -44 and have typically been set back in the 1880 and 1890s.Where Winnipeg could break a record is in coldest daily maximum temperature — the coldest “high.” This time of year, the records go back to some of the coldest dates in local memory as recent as 2004 but also 1996 and 1966. They also go back even further for the first days of February back to 1886 and 1891.WATCH: ‘Polar vortex’ grips major U.S. cities in historic low temperaturesThe record on Jan. 30, set in 2004, is -30.8 C. Winnipeg was expecting a high of -31 C Wednesday, so it will be close.As the weekend approaches, the temperatures around the southern prairies are expected to moderate and start to return closer to normal with these days likely ending up as the coldest of the entire winter.See also weather stations in Europe shown no warming since 1988.ClimatView / World Climate / TCCCanada will Break 100-Year-Old Cold Record This Apriladmin March 24, 2019 News Comments Off on Canada will Break 100-Year-Old Cold Record This April 1,569 ViewsFor the first week of April, the coldest temperature anomalies on earth could be found in Alberta and Saskatchewan. This means the province has been experiencing the biggest gap between recorded daily temperatures and what is normal.Record-breaking cold will hit Eastern Canada, including Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal this April. Environment Canada said more than 20 communities in Ontario will experience extreme cold weather than they had ever recorded in April.Both Quebec and Ontario will experience unusal freezing temperatures , with Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba reaching temperatures far below normal recorded in April.British Columbia is the only province expected to see normal temperatures this spring.Canada’s southern regions may not have it as bad but are still affected to a significant degree. Parts of Manitoba are going to face with coldest temperature as low as -25 C, while northern Ontario and northern Quebec are going to see temperatures of around -20 C and -25 C, respectively.Yes, it’s true.it’s almost spring and Canadian spring season is going to absolutely suck.To give you an example, temperatures are expected to hit the -25 C and -34 C in April 2019.April is shaping up to be the coldest month on record in Canada.For the first week of April, the coldest temperature anomalies on earth could be found in Alberta and Saskatchewan. This means the province has been experiencing the biggest gap between recorded daily temperatures and what is normal.Record-breaking cold will hit Eastern Canada, including Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal this April. Environment Canada said more than 20 communities in Ontario will experience extreme cold weather than they had ever recorded in April.Both Quebec and Ontario will experience unusal freezing temperatures , with Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba reaching temperatures far below normal recorded in April.Yes, it’s true.it’s almost spring and Canadian spring season is going to absolutely suck.To give you an example, temperatures are expected to hit the -25 C and - -34 C in April 2019.British ColumbiaVancouver cold: City experiences chilliest February on recordAverage daily temp was just 0.3 C compared to 30 year average of 4.9 CCBC News · Posted: Mar 01, 2019 1:19 PM PT | Last Updated: March 1A person walks a dog as heavy snow falls in Vancouver, on Feb. 10, 2019. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)You can make fun of Vancouverites' apparent weakness for cold weather all you want, but the past month did set a record for freezing temperatures.According to Environment Canada, February was the coldest month since records began being kept in 1937.ECCC Weather British Columbia✔@ECCCWeatherBCThe numbers are in! Think it was a cold February? That would be an understatement with several locations across the province recording one of their coldest Februaries on record! ‪#BCwx ‪#Brrr ‪#Febrrruary74The numbers are in! Think it was a cold February? That would be an understatement with several locations across the province recording one of their coldest Februaries on record! #BCwx #Brrr #Febrrruary pic.twitter.com/2hpDecHr5z— ECCC Weather British Columbia (@ECCCWeatherBC) March 1, 2019The numbers are in! Think it was a cold February? That would be an understatement with several locations across the province recording one of their coldest Februaries on record! #BCwx #Brrr #Febrrruary pic.twitter.com/2hpDecHr5z— ECCC Weather British Columbia (@ECCCWeatherBC) March 1, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacyThe average daily temperature for the month was 0.3 C compared to the past 30 year average of 4.9 C, a difference of more than four degrees.Children bundled up throw rocks on one of Vancouver's beaches in February 2019. The month was the coldest since records began being kept in 1937. (CBC)The city also made it into the top 10 snowiest Februarys with 31.2 centimetres of the white stuff. The record, 61 centimetres, was set in 1949.In February in Vancouver, there were 13 days when snow fell. That is 11 days more than the average for the month, which is two.Victoria also had the snowiest February on record with 68.3 centimetres of snow. More than 26 centimetres fell on Feb. 11, according to Environment Canada.According to CBC meteorologist Johanna Wagstaffe, the long range outlook for March for the coast is for colder than average temperatures.Lots of evidence the earth is cooling and there is no global warming to worry about.*THE OCEANS ARE COOLING*THE ARCTIC IS NOT MELTING AND HAS REBOUNDED TO PAST SIZEPHOTOS OF THE ARCTIC 1979, 2012 AND 2017 COMPARED TO 79 LEVELS.Largest Increase In November 2018 Sea Ice Volume On RecordPosted on December 13, 2018 by tonyhellerThe increase in Arctic sea ice volume during November was the largest on record.*SEA LEVEL RISE HAS STOPPED GLOBALLY*WINTERS ARE LONGER, COLDER WITH MUCH MORE SNOWWINTER COMES EARLY DOWN UNDER: EARLIEST RECORDED SNOWFALL IN WESTERN AUSTRALIADate: 20/04/19ABC NewsIt is the earliest recorded snow event in the state’s history.Western Australia’s south-west received an unexpected surprise on Good Friday, with snowfall on Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Ranges.A flurry was recorded on the peak, the highest point in the Stirling Ranges, about 100 kilometres north of Albany, after 2:00pm on Friday.It is the earliest recorded snow eventin a calendar year in the state’s history.The last recorded fall before this time was April 20, 1970, according to Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) records.Dozens of hikers made the trek up the 1099-metre tall Bluff Knoll on Friday, which generally records light snow a couple of times each winter but rarely in April.Winter comes early down under: Earliest recorded snowfall in Western Australia - The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)Snow accumulation data shows massive increase.*SOLAR RADIATION IS IN SHARP DECLINE WITHOUT SUNSPOTSWHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE CARBON TAX?It is aimed at cooling the climate when there is no warming and this means the tax is nonsense and worse.Washington state voters reject carbon taxISSUE: Why carbon taxes are climatically useless.Trudeau’s plan resembles the papal indulgences of old.He wants Canadians to pay a financial penalty for the sin of using fossil fuel energy, even though fossil fuels power modern civilization.Just as papal indulgences did nothing to remove the sin, Trudeau’s carbon pricing plan does nothing, or next to nothing, to meet Trudeau’s commitments to the United Nations to reduce our industrial greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 30% by 2030.Goldstein Toronto SunENERGYWith Climate Change Science Unsettled, a Carbon Tax is Even More UselessNicolas Loris / @NiconomistLoris / April 18, 2013 / 0 CommentsKurt Strazdins KRT/NewscomReuters’s environment correspondent Alister Doyle provides even more fodder for why a carbon (energy) tax or the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gas emissions is economically and environmentally foolish. Doyle writes:Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.Figuring out the reasons and severity behind climate change is a worthwhile cause, but Doyle’s article is another example that the science is far from settled as to what is causing climate change, how quickly it’s occurring, and the effect of increased greenhouse gas emissions (natural or manmade) on the earth’s temperature. Doyle continues:Theories for the pause include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds are blocking the sun, or that greenhouse gases trap less heat than previously believed.The change may be a result of an observed decline in heat-trapping water vapor in the high atmosphere, for unknown reasons. It could be a combination of factors or some as yet unknown natural variations, scientists say.Richard Tol, a climate and economics professor at the University of Sussex, told Doyle, “My own confidence in the data has gone down in the past five years.”One of The Heritage Foundation’s eight principles of The American Conservation Ethic is that science should be employed as one tool to guide public policy. Science is a critical and informative guiding tool, but it should not dictate public policy, especially when lawmakers distort the science to help them meet their policy agenda. As we explain in the principles, “Commitments to use the force of law should be made with great caution and demand a high degree of scientific certainty. To do otherwise is likely to result in environmental laws based on scientific opinions rather than scientific facts.”Even with the science unsettled, proponents of carbon taxes, the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations, and green energy subsidies argue that we should enact these policies as precautionary measures and protect future generations. But we’ll be leaving our children and grandchildren a world with higher energy costs and less economic prosperity with nothing to show for it.Since the large majority of America’s energy needs are met with carbon-emitting conventional fuels, a carbon tax would cripple economic growth. Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis recently analyzed the carbon tax legislationproposed by Senators Barbara Boxer (D–CA) and Bernie Sanders (I–VT) and found family income losses of $1,000 per year and 400,000 jobs lost as soon as 2016.It’s not just making our children and grandchildren worse off; it’s making us worse off through higher energy bills, higher product prices, and less economic opportunity. And as the carbon tax increases, so does the economic burden.What’s worse, the climate impact of a carbon tax is almost too small to notice. A $25-per-ton tax would moderate global warming at most by 0.11 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.Congress should be proactive in addressing climate change, but only by categorically rejecting the idea of a carbon tax and removing the ability of the EPA and any other federal agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.Climate Change Science Unsettled, Carbon Tax Even More UnwisePCs win Ontario election — here’s a look at the promises Doug Ford madeBy Maham AbediNational Online Journalist, Breaking News Global NewsPCs win Ontario election — here’s a look at the promises Doug Ford madeMY PUBLISHED COMMENT‪James Grant Matkin‪ ·‪This election victory is a great victory for science as Doug Ford promises to fight the phony carbon tax. Climate alarmists are a scourge to the 2 billion living off grid without electricity. They need life giving fossil fuels particularly coal. Demonizing Co2 vital plant food based on pseudo-science in order under the PARIS ACCORD to make the climate colder is just plain madness. Unstoppable solar cycles and ocean currents are far more the control knob of the climate than miniscule amounts of essential human emissions of Co2. We need more Co2 as it is wholly beneficial. Global cooling is the fear for the next few decades and we must eschew inefficient, wasteful and intermittent renewables that under Premier Wynne punished Ontario citizens with high cost electricity rates. Congratulations to Ontario voters for their common sense repudiating climate alarmism.The Ontario Progressive Conservatives under Ford won a majority mandate on Thursday ending more than 15 years of Liberal rule in the province, defeating Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals and Andrea Horwath’s NDP.Some of his big-ticket items include a 20 per cent tax cut for the middle class, scrapping the Liberals’ updated sex-ed curriculum, ending cap and trade, reducing business taxes, while also building new long-term care beds, and a tax rebate for child care. Ford, who at times drew comparisons to Donald Trump, also made a number of populist pledges including cutting gas prices by 10 cents a litre, introducing buck-a-beer and cutting hydro bills by 12 percent.Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives win majority governmentThe claim that temperatures are rising too fast in Canada is false. They are not rising at all let alone too fast.Modelling past historical temperatures has not worked largely because it is a very difficult statistical problem.TEMPERATURE IS ACHILLES HEEL OF ALARMISMEven though President Obama and other global-warming alarmists warn of a looming climate apocalypse, they avoid giving a metric to prove their claims. They blame man-made climate change for a vast array of ills, including floods, droughts, wildfires, and tornados. But they never quantify what they say is the driving force behind it all: temperature.German Professor: IPCC in a serious jam... "5AR likely to be last of its kind"P GosselinNo Tricks ZoneMon, 16 Sep 2013 16:59 UTC© Warum die Klimakatastrophe nicht stattfindetProf. Fritz VahrenholtAnd: "Extreme weather is the only card they have got left to play."So says German Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt, who is one of the founders of Germany's modern environmental movement, and agreed to an interview with NoTricksZone.NTZ: CO2 is supposed to be trapping heat in the atmosphere, yet global atmospheric temperatures haven't risen in 200 months (over 16 years). Where has all the "trapped heat" gone? Some leading scientists are frustrated that they cannot find it. What do you think is happening?FV: It's now obvious that the IPCC models are not correctly reflecting the development of atmospheric temperatures. What's false? Reality or the models? The hackneyed explanation of a deep sea warming below 700 meters hasn't been substantiated up to now. How does atmospheric warming from a climate gas jump 700 meters deep into the ocean? If you consider the uncertainties in the Earth's radiation budget measurements at the top of the atmosphere, and those of the temperature changes at water depths below 700 meters, where we are talking about changes of a few hundredths of a degree Celsius over many years, such a "missing heat" cannot be ascertained today. The likelihood is that there is no "missing heat". Slight changes in cloud cover could easily account for a similar effect. That would mean the end of the alarmist CO2 theory. Perhaps this is why we've been hearing speculation about the deep ocean. On the other hand, perhaps this discussion tells us that the alarmist faction needs to deal more with oceanic cycles. It is possible that this is a step in recognizing the central impacts of the PDO and AMO on our climate.Is Global Warming a Hoax?Written by Ed Hiserodt and Rebecca TerrellIsGlobal Warming a Hoax?Temperature increases over the past 140 years are too small and within the range of natural variability to constitute human made global warming. NASA Goddard Institute finds warming of 0.8* Celsius (1.4* Faherheit) since 1880. This means an average of only 0.0175 degree Celsius temperature increase annually. This minute amount is within the statistical error of the data. It does not prove global warming.World of Change: Global TemperaturesIn addition from the beginning data tampering has been rampant to try vainly to show more warming.Massive Data Tampering Uncovered At NASA – Warmth, Cooling Disappears Due To Incompatibility With ModelsBy Kenneth Richard on 16. January 2017Why Did NASA Eliminate The Early 20th Century Warming And Mid-20th Century Cooling?The fundamental reason why NASA has manipulated past temperature data is so that the historical climate record may conform to the IPCC models that presume variations in surface temperatures are predominantly determined by anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Fossil fuels consumption in particular and anthropogenic CO2 emissions in general plodded along steadily at about 1 GtC/year (gigatons of carbon per year) during the 1900 to 1945 period. Then, after 1945, human emissions exploded. They reached 4 GtC/year by the 1970s, 6 GtC/year by the 1990s, and 10 GtC/year by 2014.Massive Data Tampering Uncovered At NASA - Warmth, Cooling Disappears Due To Incompatibility With ModelsThe scientists finding global warming were fooled by randomness and short term data.Climate change occurs when changes in Earth's climate system result in new weather patterns that last for at least a few decades, and maybe for millions of years.WikipediaIn most scientific fields, hypotheses that fail to be verified by real-world observations 85% to 100% of the time are rejected http://immediately.In Consensus Climate Science, when 126 of 126, 111 of 114, 42 of 49… modeled projections are wrong, or when the opposite sign of the modeled trend is observed, the climate models are still regarded as mechanistically correct, especially with regard to the CO2 climate influence.Those who disagree are dismissed as “denialists”.At what point will Consensus Climate Science actually question if the greenhouse gas forcings the models are predicated on need reconsideration?Connolly et al., 2019“Observed changes in Northern Hemisphere snow cover from satellite records were compared to those predicted by all available Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (“CMIP5”) climate models over the duration of the satellite’s records, i.e., 1967–2018.A total of 196 climate model runs were analyzed (taken from 24 climate models). Separate analyses were conducted for the annual averages and for each of the seasons (winter, spring, summer, and autumn/fall). A longer record (1922–2018) for the spring season which combines ground-based measurements with satellite measurements was also compared to the model outputs.The climate models were found to poorly explain the observed trends. While the models suggest snow cover should have steadily decreased for all four seasons, only spring and summer exhibited a long-term decrease, and the pattern of the observed decreases for these seasons was quite different from the modelled predictions. Moreover, the observed trends for autumn and winter suggest a long-term increase, although these trends were not statistically significant.”"Not here to worship what is known, but to question it" - Jacob Bronowski. Climate and energy news from Germany in English - by Pierre L. GosselinThe fear of global warming is the fear of science lies and a radical economic agenda and a political scam. Resilience is the only sensible policy to respond to severe weather and climate change.

A carbon tax to make the climate cooler is a dishonest and regressive money grab using fake science and wildly exaggerated scaremongering to pick our pockets. The earth is cooling why would we tax ourselves to make it cooler? Compared to the proven variability of the Sun human Co2 emissions have near zero impact on the climate according to research studies.There is no evidence of progressive warming globally or in Canada where a carbon tax was just imposed on April fools day.Courts around the world are scathing in their criticism of the anti-intellectual tactics of the alarmists like Michael Mann. See also recent court award of 1.2 million against Cook Uni in Australia in favor of skeptical professor RIDD who was wrongly dismissed for his doubts.My Published CommentJames Grant Matkin
 The Canadian federal carbon tax implemented today is a bad April Fools joke as it will do nothing for the climate and will make Canada less competitive. Co2 is wholly beneficial minute and non-polluting plant food. Trump is right it is unproven as to any effect on the climate. Even if there was some effect taking action in Canada is futile while China and India push forward with new coal power plants every week. It is the classic dilemma of the tragedy of the commons. 'Axing the carbon tax' slogan defeated an Australian government recently because the public saw through the fog and dishonesty of the policy. Will Trudeau suffer the same fate?Trudeau: Trump Presidency Won't Change Canada's Carbon Price PlanOttawa freezes its way to coldest capital city in the worldTemperature slipped below those of capitals in Russia, Kazakhstan and MongoliaCBC News ·Posted: Jan 19, 2019 9:44 AM ET | Last Updated: January 19Ottawa is the seventh coldest national capital in the world based on average annual temperature. (Canadian Press)If you were out early Saturday morning and felt like you were in the coldest place on earth, you were right — at least when it comes to capital cities around the globe.The temperature in Ottawa fell below every other national capital in the world on Saturday morning — and that doesn't include the wind chill.Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, is on average the coldest capital city in the world, according to World Atlas.But the temperature in Ottawa — ranked the seventh coldest capital based on annual average temperature — dipped to –24 C, compared to –23 C in Ulan Bator.With the wind chill it felt like minus Горящие туры из Минска: агентство SEAVIEW comparison here are the temperatures in other capital cities that are colder than Ottawa on average:Astana –3 CMoscow –4 CHelsinki –2 CReykjavik 1 CTallinn –2 CTo top it all off, Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning and a winter storm warning for Ottawa.Ottawa and some surrounding areas could see up to 25 centimetres of snow over the next 24 hours.WEATHERJanuary 30, 2019 3:52 pmUpdated: January 31, 2019 4:28 pmCanadian prairies colder than North Pole, almost as cold as MarsBy Mike KoncanWeather Anchor/Reporter Global News43

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moreToronto under extreme cold weather alert ahead of big temperature drop SundayWATCH: Extreme cold warnings for much of CanadaListenThe term ‘extreme’ has been circulating across the continent as provinces and states experience cold weather, but few places are as cold as the prairies.Polar Vortex is also a great buzzword, and it has a major impact on the weather and temperatures around a big chunk of the country.The atmospheric conditions are an upper level low pressure system higher up above the earth’s surface. Around the eastern prairies, a ridge of high pressure has built up, essentially meaning that the eastern prairies are getting a steady stream of air from the top of the world.READ MORE: Extreme cold warning continues along eastern SaskatchewanSimply put, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are being blasted by air from above the Arctic, making them the coldest places in the country, and quite possibly on the planet.Cold air sitting over much of Canada Wednesday Jan 30, 2019.Global NewsThe coldest place in the country on Wednesday is Key Lake Sask., with an air temperature reading of -47.2 Celsius.The award for coldest major city in Canada goes to Winterpeg. At 7 a.m. the temperature was -39.8 C and the wind chill was as cold as -52.Winnipeg has been dealing with colder than normal temperatures for almost two straight weeks. Typically this time of year, temperatures range from -21 C to -11 C. Only once in the last two weeks have temperatures gotten to that point — cold nights below -25 C have become the norm.READ MORE: Get ready for ‘the coldest time of the winter’ as arctic air descends on ManitobaColder than where?When it gets this cold, it’s hard not to compare to other notable frozen locations, as it turns out, -39.8 C is hard to beat.The North Pole was expected to hover around -32 C Wednesday.Siberia, typically the coldest place on earth, will likely deal with light snow and temperatures ranging from -15 to -23 C. The winds there will also be light, so wind chill will not be much of a factor.Taking it out of our atmosphere, Mars hasn’t given an updated forecast for Wednesday, but expected a high of -7 C Tuesday. Even though the forecasted low was -70 C, an afternoon on the red planet doesn’t sound so bad compared to Winnipeg.WATCH: Winnipeg’s freezing cold temperatures are colder than MarsThe extended cold snap for around the prairies has broken some records in northern Manitoba but nothing for Winnipeg. Record lows this time of year usually range between -40 and -44 and have typically been set back in the 1880 and 1890s.Where Winnipeg could break a record is in coldest daily maximum temperature — the coldest “high.” This time of year, the records go back to some of the coldest dates in local memory as recent as 2004 but also 1996 and 1966. They also go back even further for the first days of February back to 1886 and 1891.WATCH: ‘Polar vortex’ grips major U.S. cities in historic low temperaturesThe record on Jan. 30, set in 2004, is -30.8 C. Winnipeg was expecting a high of -31 C Wednesday, so it will be close.As the weekend approaches, the temperatures around the southern prairies are expected to moderate and start to return closer to normal with these days likely ending up as the coldest of the entire winter.The idea that Canada needs a carbon tax to prevent MORE above average warming here based on data over last 70 years is unbelievable. The data is surely suspect for those of us living here for the past 70 years. The proof the earth is cooling again is seen visibly by the expansion of polar ice.PHOTOS OF THE ARCTIC 1979, 2012 AND 2017 COMPARED TO 79 LEVELS.Largest Increase In November 2018 Sea Ice Volume On RecordPosted on December 13, 2018 by tonyhellerThe increase in Arctic sea ice volume during November was the largest on record.. Also the science of flooding is not evidence of warming. From our childhood we know rainy days are cooler and sunny days are warmer.MY PUBLISHED COMMENTThe issue of carbon taxes for America has a new hurdle with the mantra ENERGY AFFORDABILITY from the 'YELLOW JACKET' policy backlash by violent protestors in France. Macron's government may be defeated for attempting this unwise political tool, like Australia where AXE THE TAX defeated an incumbent government. Australia was the first country to impose a carbon tax. Washington State follows the backlash in Ontario where Premier Doug Ford and his conservative coalition were swept into power by Canadian voters in June on a platform that opposed carbon taxes. “In some senses the French are ahead of the rest of the world on this,” said John Constable, energy editor at the Global Warming Policy Forum, a U.K.-based think tank. The UN IPCC lacks both science and public credibility with their false concern about trace amounts 0.117% human emissions of Co2 from fossil fuels. The physics denies the extraordinary Al Gore alarmist claim that humans have become the control knob of the climate???Washington state voters reject carbon taxISSUE: Why carbon taxes are climatically useless.Trudeau’s plan resembles the papal indulgences of old.He wants Canadians to pay a financial penalty for the sin of using fossil fuel energy, even though fossil fuels power modern civilization.Just as papal indulgences did nothing to remove the sin, Trudeau’s carbon pricing plan does nothing, or next to nothing, to meet Trudeau’s commitments to the United Nations to reduce our industrial greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 30% by 2030.Goldstein Toronto SunENERGYWith Climate Change Science Unsettled, a Carbon Tax is Even More UselessNicolas Loris / @NiconomistLoris / April 18, 2013 / 0 Comments••Kurt Strazdins KRT/NewscomReuters’s environment correspondent Alister Doyle provides even more fodder for why a carbon (energy) tax or the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gas emissions is economically and environmentally foolish. Doyle writes:Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.Figuring out the reasons and severity behind climate change is a worthwhile cause, but Doyle’s article is another example that the science is far from settled as to what is causing climate change, how quickly it’s occurring, and the effect of increased greenhouse gas emissions (natural or manmade) on the earth’s temperature. Doyle continues:Theories for the pause include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds are blocking the sun, or that greenhouse gases trap less heat than previously believed.The change may be a result of an observed decline in heat-trapping water vapor in the high atmosphere, for unknown reasons. It could be a combination of factors or some as yet unknown natural variations, scientists say.Richard Tol, a climate and economics professor at the University of Sussex, told Doyle, “My own confidence in the data has gone down in the past five years.”One of The Heritage Foundation’s eight principles of The American Conservation Ethic is that science should be employed as one tool to guide public policy. Science is a critical and informative guiding tool, but it should not dictate public policy, especially when lawmakers distort the science to help them meet their policy agenda. As we explain in the principles, “Commitments to use the force of law should be made with great caution and demand a high degree of scientific certainty. To do otherwise is likely to result in environmental laws based on scientific opinions rather than scientific facts.”Even with the science unsettled, proponents of carbon taxes, the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations, and green energy subsidies argue that we should enact these policies as precautionary measures and protect future generations. But we’ll be leaving our children and grandchildren a world with higher energy costs and less economic prosperity with nothing to show for it.Since the large majority of America’s energy needs are met with carbon-emitting conventional fuels, a carbon tax would cripple economic growth. Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis recently analyzed the carbon tax legislationproposed by Senators Barbara Boxer (D–CA) and Bernie Sanders (I–VT) and found family income losses of $1,000 per year and 400,000 jobs lost as soon as 2016.It’s not just making our children and grandchildren worse off; it’s making us worse off through higher energy bills, higher product prices, and less economic opportunity. And as the carbon tax increases, so does the economic burden.What’s worse, the climate impact of a carbon tax is almost too small to notice. A $25-per-ton tax would moderate global warming at most by 0.11 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.Congress should be proactive in addressing climate change, but only by categorically rejecting the idea of a carbon tax and removing the ability of the EPA and any other federal agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.Climate Change Science Unsettled, Carbon Tax Even More UnwisePCs win Ontario election — here’s a look at the promises Doug Ford madeBy Maham AbediNational Online Journalist, Breaking News Global NewsPCs win Ontario election — here’s a look at the promises Doug Ford madeMY PUBLISHED COMMENT‪James Grant Matkin‬‬‬‪ · ‬‬‬‪This election victory is a great victory for science as Doug Ford promises to fight the phony carbon tax. Climate alarmists are a scourage to the 2 billion living off grid without electiricity. They need life giving fossil fuels particularly coal. Demonizing Co2 vital plant food based on pseudo-science in order under the PARIS ACCORD to make the climate colder is just plain madness. Unstoppable solar cycles and ocean currents are far more the control knob of the climate than miniscule amounts of essential human emissions of Co2. We need more Co2 as it is wholly beneficial. Global cooling is the fear for the next few decades and we must eschew inefficient, wasteful and intermittent renewables that under Premier Wynne punished Ontario citizens with high cost electricity rates. Congratulations to Ontario voters for their common sense repudiating climate alarmism.‬‬‬‬The Ontario Progressive Conservatives under Ford won a majority mandate on Thursday ending more than 15 years of Liberal rule in the province, defeating Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals and Andrea Horwath’s NDP.Some of his big-ticket items include a 20 per cent tax cut for the middle class, scrapping the Liberals’ updated sex-ed curriculum, ending cap and trade, reducing business taxes, while also building new long-term care beds, and a tax rebate for child care. Ford, who at times drew comparisons to Donald Trump, also made a number of populist pledges including cutting gas prices by 10 cents a litre, introducing buck-a-beer and cutting hydro bills by 12 percent.Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives win majority governmentRECENT GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTHGlobal warming caused by minuscule amounts, near zero, of ‘Co2 is a myth. The UN IPCC predicted in 2001 that global warming would cause ‘moderate winters’ according to their computer modelling. Untrue just like the alarmist hypothesis of Co2 controlling the climate.Delingpole: The Frozen Hell Outside Your Window Is What Global Warming Looks LikeThe Midwest and Northeast are being ravaged by the Polar Vortex. Illinois has recorded its coldest temperature on record. Aurora, Illinois has recorded the coldest afternoon on record. Mail deliveries and flights have been cancelled. Governors in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan have declared emergencies.It is phony science to blame carbon dioxide for Polar Vortex variability. Arctic air is unstable and changes are natural and known for millions of years in climate history.– Christine Stewart,former Canadian Minister of the Environment“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change provides the greatest opportunity tobring about justice and equality in the world.”– Christine Stewart,BIZARRE THEORY LINKING GLOBAL WARMING TO ‘POLAR VORTEXES’ RESURFACES. SCIENTISTS ARE PUSHING BACKIn what’s become an annual affair, the media is pushing articles suggesting bone-chilling temperatures about to hit the U.S. are the product of man-made global warming.However, many scientists disagree that global warming is having the bizarre effect of making it colder in winter, despite the media’s narrative.The two scientists published a study last year claiming cold snaps are more likely when the Arctic is abnormally warm, but their work suffered from serious flaws, namely, it did not test any hypothesis nor did it try to establish causality between global warming and cold snaps.The New York Times also pushed Cohen and Francis’s theory of global warming-induced cold. However, many scientists disagree with that theory and, in fact, there seems to be more evidence it’s just plain wrong.Niagara Falls freezing over from the US side.https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/...HUMAN EMISSIONS OF Co2 TOO MINUTE TO EFFECT THE CLIMATE.There are not enough human emissions of Co2 to trap anything like a blanket as the GREENHOUSE myth of Al Gore and other leftists claim.AXE THE TAX WON OUT IN AUSTRALIA AFTER COST BENEFIT STUDYThe yellow sphere represents 1 to 2,500 molecules which is the amount of CO2 amongst the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air.There is too little Co2 to COVER ANYTHING this means carbon dioxide has no meaningful role in the earth’s climate. The use of a greenhouse has a climate metaphor is the heart of great misunderstanding.THE BIGGEST MYTH OF ALLThe End of Snow? – The New York Times2017 : The Age’s resident global warming catastrophist Peter Hannam signalled the end of snow…A good example of climate predictions gone awry is in the area of snow.“97%” of venerated ‘scientific’ institutions in concert with the warmist mainstream media were predicting the end of snow…IN 2000, climate expert Dr David Viner of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit(CRU) assured us that :Snowfall will become “A very rare and exciting event…Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”Dr David Viner – Senior scientist, climatic research unit (CRU)SNOWFALL Will Become “A Very Rare And Exciting Event…” | ClimatismIN 2001, the UN IPCC predicted diminished snowfalls as human CO2 increased, claiming that “milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms”due to the activities of personkind…IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeTHEY also forecast “warmer winters and fewer cold spells, because of climate change…”warmer-winters-ipcc*THE “97% of Experts” Agreed Too!2000 : a prediction from Professor Mojib Latif of Germany’s GEOMAR Heimholtz Centre for Ocean Research…“Winters with strong frosts and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will no longer exist at our latitudes.” – Professor Mojib Latif2000 : Spiegel…“Good bye winter. Never again snow?”2004 : Mark Lynas told us…“Snow has become so rare that when it does fall – often just for a few hours – everything grinds to a halt. In early 2003 a ‘mighty’ five-centimetre snowfall in southeast England caused such severe traffic jams that many motorists had to stay in their cars overnight. Today’s kids are missing out . . . Many of these changes are already underway, but have been accelerating over the last two decades. Termites have already moved into southern England. Garden centres are beginning to stock exotic sub-tropical species, which only a few years ago would have been killed off by winter…” – Mark Lynas2005 : Christopher Krull, Black Forest Tourism Association / Spiegel…Planning for a snowless future: “Our study is already showing that that there will be a much worse situation in 20 years.”2005 : George Monbiot on climate change and snow…Winter is no longer the great grey longing of my childhood. The freezes this country suffered in 1982 and 1963 are – unless the Gulf Stream stops – unlikely to recur. Our summers will be long and warm. Across most of the upper northern hemisphere, climate change, so far, has been kind to us…2006 : Daniela Jacob of Max Planck Institute for Meterology, Hamburg …“Yesterday’s snow… Because temperatures in the Alps are rising quickly, there will be more precipitation in many places. But because it will rain more often than it snows, this will be bad news for tourists. For many ski lifts this means the end of business.”Less Snow and Drier Summers in German Forecast | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 30.04.20062006 : The Independent‘s somber editorial admonished us that the lack of snow was evidence of a “dangerous seasonal disorder”…The countryside is looking rather peculiar this winter. It seems we have a number of unexpected guests for Christmas. Dragonflies, bumblebees and red admiral butterflies, which would normally be killed off by the frost, can still be seen in some parts of the country . . . Some might be tempted to welcome this late blossoming of the natural world as a delightful diversion from the bleakness of this time of year. But these fluctuations should be cause for concern because it is overwhelmingly likely that they are a consequence of global warming . . . all this is also evidence that global warming is occurring at a faster rate than many imagined…2007 : BBC “One Planet Special”…“It Seems the Winters of Our Youth are Unlikely to Return” presenter Richard Hollingham … speaks to climate scientists to get their views. Their conclusion? In the words of the BBC, they all give “predictions of warmer winters, for UK & the Northern Hemisphere”.2007 : Schleswig Holstein NABU…“Ice, snow, and frost will disappear, i.e. milder winters” … “Unusually warm winters without snow and ice are now being viewed by many as signs of climate change.”2007 : Western Mail (Wales Online) … article, entititled “Snowless Winters Forecast for Wales as World Warms Up” quotes one of the global warming movement’s key figures, Sir John Houghton, former head of the IPCC and former head of the UK Met Office…Former head of the Met Office Sir John Houghton, who is one of the UK’s leading authorities on climate change, said all the indicators suggest snowy winters will become increasingly rare He said, “Snowlines are going up in altitude all over the world. The idea that we will get less snow is absolutely in line with what we expect from global warming.”2007 : Die Zeit…“First the snow disappears, and then winter.”WHY 97% CONSENSUS ABOUT THE END OF SNOW?This is a vital question and the answer punctures the human caused Co2 climate change.The alarmists claimed that the climate will become too hot and cause a ‘catastrophe’ for human civilization. With this view of the future of course winters must end as they moderate a too hot summer preventing a climate crisis. This predictions puts winter weather in play in a way all other weather is not. Further this prediction about moderate winters must happen or the apocalyptic view that human emissions of fossil fuels will create a climate crisis catastrophe is just fiction? There is no polar ice imagined in the future by the NOAA alarmists.NOAA PROJECTED END OF POLAR ICE AND SNOW BY 2085.FAILED. The prediction of moderate winters without the Arctic polar ice is bunk. Mother nature and natural variation wins over the discarded theories of the the 1800s. After 2000 Arctic ice expands and does not retreat as predicted. Here is reality not computer modelled political scaremongering -IMAGES | SEPTEMBER 20, 2000Global View of the Arctic Oceanhttps://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceim...More evidence of no global warming today is data about sea levels not risingLet’s begin with the long view that shows like temperature graphs a strong trend line of falling sea levels.Like all climate SL graphs are seesaw up and down but the trend line is clearly down.Bewildered Scientists…A Global Warming Crisis Fails To Appear: Sea Level Rise Grinds To A CrawlBy P Gosselin on 2. February 2018Over the past months a spate of scientific papers published show sea level rise has not accelerated like many climate warming scientists warned earlier. The reality is that the rise is far slower than expected, read here and here.Alarmist bedwetting by scientists over sea level rise proving to have been needless. Photo: PIK climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf. Source: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Rahmstorf FTP folder.Scary scenarios aboundThe latest findings glaringly contradict alarmist claims of accelerating sea level rise. For example the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) here wrote sea levels would “likely rise for many centuries at rates higher than that of the current century”, due to global warming.In 2013 The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) wrote here sea-level rise in this century would likely be 70-120 centimeters by 2100″ (i.e. 7 – 12 mm annually) and that 90 experts in a survey “anticipated a median sea-level rise of 200-300 centimeters by the year 2300” (i.e. on average circa 7 to 10 mm every year).It’s important to note that the above scary figures given above are mostly based on computer simulations, where parameters are simply assumed by the scientists.Evidence in fact points to decelerationUsing these modelled estimates, the globe should now be seeing a rapid acceleration in sea level rise. Yet no evidence of this can be found so far. In fact the real measured data show the opposite is happening: a deceleration in sea level rise is taking place.Instead of the 7 – 12 mm annual sea level rise the PIK projected in 2013, a recent study appearing in the Geophysical Research Letters in April 2017 corrected the satellite measured sea level rise downwards from 3.3 mm annually to just 3.0 mm over the past 24 years – or less than half what PIK models projected.Only 1.5 mm/yearWorse, satellite data measuring sea level have turned out to be far more complex and uncertain than one would wish, and evidence is piling up and showing that satellite data likely have been overstating sea level rise. For example when measuring sea level rise along coastlines (where people actually live)using tide gauges, the rise has even been far slower. Renowned Swedish sea level expert Axel Mörner published a paper in 2017 showing an observed sea level rise rate of only 1.5 – 2.0 mm/year.Second half of the 20th century slower than in the first halfIn another newly published paper by Frederiske et al. 2018 just this year, oceanographers estimate that global sea levels rose at a rate of only 1.42 mm per year between 1958 and 2014. That figure closely coincides with the results of Dr. Simon Holgate from 2007. According to the Holgate study: “The rate of sea level change was found to be larger in the early part of last century (2.03 ± 0.35 mm/yr 1904–1953), in comparison with the latter part (1.45 ± 0.34 mm/yr 1954–2003).”The Holgate result was confirmed by another 2008 paper authored by Jevrejeva et al, which found the fastest sea level rise during the past 300 years was observed between 1920 – 1950 with maximum of 2.5 mm/yr.In other words: global sea level rise has decelerated since the 1950s.At less than 2 mm annually, sea level is rising at only one sixth of the 12 mm per year rate pArchive for February 2018... rojected by the PIK in 2013.12. Sea level predictions1981 James Hansen, NASA scientist, predicted a global warming of “almost unprecedented magnitude” in the next century that might even be sufficient to melt and dislodge the ice cover of West Antarctica, eventually leading to a worldwide rise of 15 to 20 feet in the sea level. See here.Reality check: Since 1993 (24 years) we have totaled 72 mm (3 inches) of sea level rise instead of the 4 feet that corresponds to one-fourth of a century. The alarming prediction is more than 94% wrong, so far. See here.There must be a correlation between falling sea levels and freezing colder temperatures of the past 5 years?Epic And Massive Flooding In Europe During The Little Ice AgePublished on June 24, 2016Written by http://iceagenow.orgKilled more than 500,000 people.Andrew McKillop has a new article posted at The Market Oracle. Here are some excerpts.This is the global cooling fearIntense flooding in the low countries of Europe became “darkly repetitive” during the Little Ice Age, writes McKillop. The cooling period lasted 450 years,For the Dutch, the Grote Mandrenke is nothing to do with Linux software, but means “The Great Drowning” and is named for the epic and massive flooding that occurred, more and more frequently in the Low Countries of Europe’s North Sea region as Europe’s Little Ice Age intensified.Grote Mandrenke flood killed at least 100 000Normal or predictable spring and autumn flooding was increasingly replaced by large-area and intense flooding, sometimes outside spring and autumn from about 1300, in recurring crises which lasted into the 18th century. In the Low Countries and across Europe, but also elsewhere, the cooling trend starting in the late 13th century became more intense. It brought long cold winters, heavy storms and floods, loss of coastal farmlands, and huge summer sandstorms in coastal areas further damaging agriculture. Climate historians estimate that major flooding on an unpredictable but increasingly frequent basis started as early as 1250. Extreme events like the Grote Mandrenke flood of 1362 which killed at least 100 000 people became darkly repetitive.Other giant floods probably killed 400 000Other giant floods in the region through the next 200 years probably killed a total of 400 000 persons in the coastlands of what is now Belgium, Germany and Holland. At the time, Europe’s population was at most a quarter of today’s, meaning that corrected for population size these were really catastrophic disasters. During this time, the Zuider Zee region of northern Holland was inundated and its former farmlands disappeared under water – for several centuries.Crop failures and faminesThe basic reasons was that the weather was getting colder, as well as more unpredictable. As the climate cooled, it also became wetter. Combined with the cold, this caused more crop failures and famines spread as the northern limit of farming retreated south. The start of the cooling – called Europe’s Little Ice Age by glaciologist Francois Matthes in 1939 – in the 13th century was in fact the start of a long, sometimes steep dip in temperatures that held sway on an unpredictable, on-and-off basis until at least the first decade of the 19th century. Overall, the cooling lasted about 450 years.Preceded by more than two centuries of much warmer more predictable weatherMaking things worse, the cooling had been preceded by more than two centuries of much warmer and better, more predictable weather. Farming moved northwards, seasons were predictable, food supplies had expanded. Europe’s population also grew, in some regions tripling in 200 years. The colonization of Greenland, which failed when the cooling intensified, was a well-known historical spinoff from the previous warming, but by the 16th century there was no trace of Europeans in Greenland. Only ruins of their farms and homes could be found, but with few or no tombstones dated beyond the early 15th century, leading to the theory that these early “Climate Refugees” packed their longboats and sailed south, to what is now the New England coast. Where they became easy prey for American Indian tribes along those coasts.And as more evidence shows that the Medieval Warm Period was no isolated event in Europe but was a global phenomenon, McKillop’s analysis takes on more immediate relevance:The climate historian Hubert H. Lamb in his 2002 book ‘Climate History and the Modern World’ dates the cooling to two main phases. The first leg of this change he places at about 1200-1400, but his second phase of about 1500-1825 which for some climate historians is Europe’s Little Ice Age, was marked by much steeper drops in average temperatures. Indicators used by Lamb and other climate historians like Emmanuel Leroy Ladrie and Wolfgang Behringer include food price peaks as cold summers followed cold and wet springs, with increasing examples of “climate wars”, such as Louis X’s Flanders campaign where the climate chilling was a sure factor in play.I fear that we’re headed into such a period of great cooling and repetitive catastrophic flooding right now.This while our leaders prattle on about global warming, leaving us almost totally unprepared.Andrew McKillop is former chief policy analyst, Division A Policy, DG XVII Energy, European Commission, and co-author of ‘The Doomsday Machine’, Palgrave Macmillan USA, 2012McKillop has more than 30 years experience in the energy, economic and finance domains. Trained at London UK’s University College, he has had specially long experience of energy policy, project administration and the development and financing of alternate energy. This included his role of in-house Expert on Policy and Programming at the DG XVII-Energy of the European Commission, Director of Information of the OAPEC technology transfer subsidiary, AREC and researcher for UN agencies including the ILO.Epic and massive flooding in Europe during the Little Ice Age | PSI IntlFiji ‘Flooding’ Is Fake News From #COP23Posted: November 14, 2017 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Alarmism Debunked, Alarmism uncovered, Alarmist media, Alarmist Predictions, Climate These are the facts:* Sea level has remained virtually at the present level over the last 200 years* In the last 50-70 years sea level has remained perfectly stable in Fiji* This stability is indicated by the growth of corals (stopped to grow vertically, and forced to grow laterally into microatolls) – and corals do not lie“Whatever economy, politics and project agendas may want to put in the center, the true scientific community must insist that only facts as revealed in nature itself and in laboratory experiments can provide trustworthy results.”Nils-Axel Mörner signs off his open letter to Honorable Prime Minister of Fiji and President of COP23 Frank Bainimarama with this slap of reality that goes to the heart of the UN’s pseudoscientific “climate change” agenda to fulfil its (self-proclaimed) wealth-redistribution goals…“Retournons à la NatureThat is setting field evidence in the center instead of models and ideas driven by political and/or religious agendas.”Bravo Nils.Watts Up With That?Open Letter to Honorable Prime Minister of Fiji and President of COP23 Frank Bainimarama by Nils-Axel MörnerMr. President,The community assembled at the COP23 meeting in Bonn badly wants temperature to rise according to models proposed (but never verified, rather seriously contradicted) and sea level changes that may pose serious flooding threats to low lying coasts provided sea level would suddenly start to rise at rates never recorded before (which would violate physical laws as well as accumulated scientific knowledge over centuries).We have been in your lovely country and undertaken a detailed sea level analysis, which beyond doubts indicates that sea level is not at all in a rising mode, but has remained perfectly stable over the last 50-70 years. Hence all threats of an approaching general sea level flooding is totally unfounded.Whatever economy, politics and project agendas may want to put in the center, the true scientific community must…View original post 803 more wordsThe Maunder Minimum (1645–1715) and Dalton Minimum (1790–1830) — periods of low solar activity — were responsible for the coldest periods of the Little Ice Age. England’s River Thames froze.Whole civilizations collapsed as people starved because cold-induced poor harvests led to malnutrition that made people too weak to resist disease.Likewise, increased solar activity in the Roman Warm Period (~250 B.C. to A.D. 400) and Medieval Warm Period (~A.D. 950–1250) brought warmer temperatures on Earth, and thriving crops led to greater nutrition and lower mortality rates.[Chart is my addition]Hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific papers affirm the overwhelming impact of solar activity on Earth’s temperature.But will there be cooling?Observations of sunspot activity at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) indicate that there has been a lull in solar activity during the past 18 years — the same period during which there has been no significant warming, confirming a direct correlation between solar activity and global average temperature.Some climate scientists say another major cooling is likely soon. Their claims are not outlandish.Evidence for the lull in solar activity is so clear that even NASA admits the cooling trend. Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center commented, “We see a cooling trend[.] … High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”Most recent scientific studies on solar cycles suggest that the next solar cycles (25 and 26) could be similar to the Maunder and Dalton minima that plunged much of the world into a disastrous cold.An article in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Astrophysics and Space Science last month warns that the solar minimum might already have begun. Its authors also say there is a high possibility that it will be even colder than those of the Little Ice Age.Washington’s army freezing in brutal Little Ice age winter of 1777.[My addition]That is disturbing news.Most of our current efforts — including the choice of our renewable energy technologies and our anti-fossil fuel developmental policies — are incompatible with fighting off the impacts of severe cold weather (localized and short-term), let alone long-lasting and global cooling like what happened with the solar minima of the Little Ice Age.In the event of global cooling, people all over the world — the poor, especially — will be vulnerable. Our vulnerability will largely be because of global warming alarmists’ neglect of climate reality and the power-hungry climate agenda currently dominating national and international politics.Vijay Jayaraj (http://M.Sc., Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, England), a contributor to the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, lives in Chennai, India.Breaking: James Cook Uni ordered to pay $1.2m to Peter Ridd. Judge Vasta is scathing.….Heads must roll at JCU for the incompetent mismanagement, and for acting as “science” rulers and trying to suppress a scientific view they personally didn’t like. They’ve already wasted $630,000, and now another $1.2m — all so they could stop Ridd saying there is a replication crisis in science and our institutions can no longer be trusted:James Cook Uni ordered to pay $1.2m to Peter RiddCharlie Peel, The AustralianJames Cook University has been ordered to pay reef scientist Peter Ridd $1.2 million for unlawfully dismissing him after he publicly criticised the institution’s climate change science.The judge lambasted the university, saying it had “failed to respect (Dr Ridd’s) rights to intellectual freedom”.JCU has said it will appeal the finding that the dismissal was unlawful and declined to comment further on the judge’s ruling.In a scathing judgment handed down on Friday, Justice Vasta criticised the university for an “blatantly untrue” and “appalling” public statement it issued after the April ruling.“Professor Ridd was entitled to say that he had been vindicated by the court.”This is the most important battle any scientist faces. Without free speech there is no scientific research, only propaganda.Until JCU pays up and sacks those responsible we must assume all research coming out of this uni is filtered to fit a political agenda. What are JCU researchers not saying because they fear being sacked?The ABC reminds us of just how dangerous his words were:Dr Ridd was dismissed by James Cook University (JCU) in 2018 after being issued with a number of warnings for comments he made about a coral researcher and for telling Sky TV that organisations like the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) could “no longer be trusted”.Court documents at the time said Dr Ridd described his colleague in an email as “not having any clue about the weather”, and that he “will give the normal doom science about the Great Barrier Reef”.Dr Ridd said in another email that JCU, along with other universities, were “Orwellian in nature”.No breach of government propaganda will be tolerated.Gideon Rozner IPA:It is time for JCU to accept the decision and move on. If not, Education Minister Dan Tehan must intervene and tell JCU to withdraw its appeal because it is an inappropriate expenditure of taxpayer funds and will do irreparable harm to the international reputation of Australia’s higher education sector.h/t , Steve H.

The carbon tax is an April fools joke and a very bad idea and it not rescued by administrative rebates. The tax is regressive and will hurt the poor and our export based economy. You cannot make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear.A carbon tax to make the climate cooler is a dishonest and regressive money grab using fake science and wildly exaggerated scaremongering to pick our pockets. The earth is cooling why would we tax ourselves to make it more cold? There is no evidence of progressive warming globally or in Canada where a carbon tax was just imposed on April fools day.AXE THE TAX WON OUT IN AUSTRALIA AFTER COST BENEFIT STUDYMy Published CommentJames Grant Matkin
 The Canadian federal carbon tax implemented today is a bad April Fools joke as it will do nothing for the climate and will make Canada less competitive. Co2 is wholly beneficial minute and non-polluting plant food. Trump is right it is unproven as to any effect on the climate. Even if there was some effect taking action in Canada is futile while China and India push forward with new coal power plants every week. It is the classic dilemma of the tragedy of the commons. 'Axing the carbon tax' slogan defeated an Australian government recently because the public saw through the fog and dishonesty of the policy. Will Trudeau suffer the same fate?Trudeau: Trump Presidency Won't Change Canada's Carbon Price PlanThe science of Co2 based on evidence is as follows:*Carbon dioxide is non-toxic and wholly beneficial as it greens the deserts and makes the forests grow. We need more not less.*Carbon dioxide has no correlation with warming the temperature. There is a lag time after the temperature increases then Co2 increases.Temperature change correlates with solar cycles and sunspots when solar activity is low the temperature declines.The UN IPCC have fudged the data to try to overcome the reality that there is no global warming and temperatures have been in a long decline for the past 7000 years.The media print misleading stories to scare the public and advance the failing false impression that there is climate crisis.CO2 IS WHOLLY BENEFICIALWHAT IS THE SCIENCE OF Co2 - is it a pollutant?"Many chemicals are absolutely necessary for humans to live, for instance oxygen. Just as necessary, human metabolism produces by-products that are exhaled, like carbon dioxide and water vapor. So, the production of carbon dioxide is necessary, on the most basic level, for humans to survive. The carbon dioxide that is emitted as part of a wide variety of natural processes is, in turn, necessary for vegetation to live. It turns out that most vegetation is somewhat 'starved' for carbon dioxide, as experiments have shown that a wide variety of plants grow faster, and are more drought tolerant, in the presence of doubled carbon dioxide concentrations. Fertilization of the global atmosphere with the extra CO2 that mankind's activities have emitted in the last century is believed to have helped increase agricultural productivity. In short, carbon dioxide is a natural part of our environment, necessary for life, both as 'food' and as a by-product."- Roy Spencer, Ph.D. Meteorology, Former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies, NASA"Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is a colorless, odorless trace gas that actually sustains life on this planet. Consider the simple dynamics of human energy acquisition, which occurs daily across the globe. We eat plants directly, or we consume animals that have fed upon plants, to obtain the energy we need. But where do plants get their energy? Plants produce their own energy during a process called photosynthesis, which uses sunlight to combine water and carbon dioxide into sugars for supporting overall growth and development. Hence, CO2 is the primary raw material that plants depend upon for their existence. Because plants reside beneath animals (including humans) on the food chain, their healthy existence ultimately determines our own. Carbon dioxide can hardly be labeled a pollutant, for it is the basic substrate that allows life to persist on Earth."- Keith E. Idso, Ph.D. Botany"C02 is not a pollutant as Gore infers. It is, in fact essential to life on the planet. Without it there are no plants, therefore no oxygen and no life. At 385 ppm current levels the plants are undernourished. The geologic evidence shows an average level of 1000 ppm over 600 million years. Research shows plants function most efficiently at 1000-2000 ppm. Commercial greenhouses use the information and are pumping C02 to these levels and achieve four times the yield with educed water use. At 200 ppm, the plants suffer seriously and at 150 ppm, they begin to die. So if Gore achieves his goal of reducing C02 he will destroy the planet."- Tim F. Ball, Ph.D. Climatology"To classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant is thus nothing short of scientific chicanery, for reasons that have nothing to do with science, but based purely on the pseudo-science so eagerly practiced by academia across the world in order to keep their funding sources open to the governmental decrees, which are in turn based on totally false IPCC dogma (yes, dogma - not science)."- Hans Schreuder, Analytical Chemisthttp://www.populartechnology.net...The "fossil fuels" we use today (oil, coal, and natural gas) are all formed from plants and animals that died millions of years ago and were fossilized. When we burn (combust) these carbon-rich fuels, we are pulling carbon from the earth and releasing it into the environment.What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change Dr. Patrick MooreCO2 NOT CORRELATED WITH TEMPERATURE CHANGESCo2 levels have been falling dramatically from the past.Temperature is in a long term decline for the past 7000 years.Temperature rises before human Co2 emission riseCo2 lags temperature changeNo correlation of temperature with Co2Close correlation of solar cycles and temperature.UN erased climate history of Medieval Warming and Little Ice Age.Hansen manipulate data to make the weather seem warming nowDR TERRY HUGHES & THE POWER OF GRANT MONEYDr Terry HughesTerry Hughes, is the director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, the same University who recently censured physicist at James Cook University Professor Peter Ridd who has dared to question scientific findings that purport to show the Great Barrier Reef is in trouble.IN June 2017, Ridd made the headlines after suspecting something was wrong with photographs being used to highlight the apparent rapid decline of the Great Barrier Reef.After attempting to blow the whistle on the bogus pictures, Ridd was censured by James Cook University and threatened with the sack…The ABC used a photo of reef bleaching on Flowerpot Rock in American Samoa in stories about the Great Barrier Reef.ABC FAKE, FAKE NEWS…See the fake Greenpeace picture (above) used here by the ABC: New national taskforce to help scientists prepare for predicted Barrier Reef coral bleaching – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)After a formal investigation, Professor Ridd was found guilty of “failing to act in a collegial way and in the academic spirit of the institution”!His crime was to encourage questioning of two of the nation’s leading reef institutions, the Centre of Excellence for Coral Studies and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, on whether they knew that photographs they had published and claimed to show long-term collapse of reef health could be misleading and wrong.” Graham Lloyd – The Australian – 11 June 2016THE same ‘free-thinking’ university ousted the late Professor Bob Carterfrom a position of honour because he criticised aspects of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) movement that has infected Western society over the past thirty years.*Jim Steele nails Dr Hughes’ reef alarmism in this outstanding post via WUWT. (Please do read)An Ecologist’s Plea to Dr. Terry Hughes: The Public Needs Robust Science Regards Coral Bleaching, Not Fearmongering!A must read that exposes the difference between the localised effect of natural variables on The Great Barrier Reef, versus the activist junk science pushed out by ‘Professor’ Terry Hughes in order to advance the man-made global warming agenda…and, of course, secure lucrative government grants and funding.*CONCLUSIONGreat Barrier Reef Scaremongers Risk Billion of Dollars In Tourism and 10,000 JobsTHE ludicrous scaremongering by global warming activists about the “dying” reef is costing Australians jobs and money:Three surveys conducted in Britain, China, and the United States, have shown citizens in those countries – when the situation is raised with them – say that are concerned that the world-renowned reef is under severe threat. And many would reconsider visiting as a result…An estimated 175,000 fewer tourists could visit Australia if the bleaching persists and worse if the [claimed] damage becomes permanent.The polls, which surveyed the attitudes and awareness of 1000 people in each market, found potential visitors were concerned over the state of the reef, which in turn could feed into them deciding to visit other Australian attractions or to go to places other than Australia entirely.The finding suggests the tourism businesses and related local economies adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, could suffer the loss of 10,000 jobs and that the Australian economy could lose as much as $1 billion per year in overseas income.The reef supports an estimated 70,000 jobs in the tourism and related sectors and accounts for a significant proportion of Australia’s tourist income.Great Barrier Reef Scaremongers Risk 10,000 Jobs | Climatism“To tell preposterous untruths in this ‘good’ cause is not just forgivable but a sign of superior morality. The bigger the whopper the more you must really care.” – Andrew Bolt•••CURRENT ATMOSPHERIC & SEA SURFACE TEMPSGLOBAL TEMPERATURELATEST February data from NASA’s UAH satellitedata, continues the significant temperature drop from the 2015/17 super El Niño peak with current temps only 0.2C above the running average:*Ottawa freezes its way to coldest capital city in the worldTemperature slipped below those of capitals in Russia, Kazakhstan and MongoliaCBC News ·Posted: Jan 19, 2019 9:44 AM ET | Last Updated: January 19Ottawa is the seventh coldest national capital in the world based on average annual temperature. (Canadian Press)If you were out early Saturday morning and felt like you were in the coldest place on earth, you were right — at least when it comes to capital cities around the globe.The temperature in Ottawa fell below every other national capital in the world on Saturday morning — and that doesn't include the wind chill.Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, is on average the coldest capital city in the world, according to World Atlas.But the temperature in Ottawa — ranked the seventh coldest capital based on annual average temperature — dipped to –24 C, compared to –23 C in Ulan Bator.With the wind chill it felt like minus Горящие туры из Минска: агентство SEAVIEW comparison here are the temperatures in other capital cities that are colder than Ottawa on average:Astana –3 CMoscow –4 CHelsinki –2 CReykjavik 1 CTallinn –2 CTo top it all off, Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning and a winter storm warning for Ottawa.Ottawa and some surrounding areas could see up to 25 centimetres of snow over the next 24 hours.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/coldest-capital-city-in-world-1.4985296The idea that Canada needs a carbon tax to prevent MORE above average warming here based on data over last 70 years is unbelievable. The data is surely suspect for those of us living here for the past 70 years. The proof the earth is cooling again is seen visibly by the expansion of polar ice POLAR VORTEX.EATHERJanuary 30, 2019 3:52 pmUpdated: January 31, 2019 4:28 pmCanadian prairies colder than North Pole, almost as cold as MarsBy Mike KoncanWeather Anchor/Reporter Global News43

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moreToronto under extreme cold weather alert ahead of big temperature drop SundayFullscreenWATCH: Extreme cold warnings for much of Canada- A A +ListenThe term ‘extreme’ has been circulating across the continent as provinces and states experience cold weather, but few places are as cold as the prairies.Polar Vortex is also a great buzzword, and it has a major impact on the weather and temperatures around a big chunk of the country.The atmospheric conditions are an upper level low pressure system higher up above the earth’s surface. Around the eastern prairies, a ridge of high pressure has built up, essentially meaning that the eastern prairies are getting a steady stream of air from the top of the world.READ MORE: Extreme cold warning continues along eastern SaskatchewanSimply put, Manitoba and Saskatchewan are being blasted by air from above the Arctic, making them the coldest places in the country, and quite possibly on the planet.Cold air sitting over much of Canada Wednesday Jan 30, 2019.Global NewsThe coldest place in the country on Wednesday is Key Lake Sask., with an air temperature reading of -47.2 Celsius.The award for coldest major city in Canada goes to Winterpeg. At 7 a.m. the temperature was -39.8 C and the wind chill was as cold as -52.Winnipeg has been dealing with colder than normal temperatures for almost two straight weeks. Typically this time of year, temperatures range from -21 C to -11 C. Only once in the last two weeks have temperatures gotten to that point — cold nights below -25 C have become the norm.Colder than where?When it gets this cold, it’s hard not to compare to other notable frozen locations, as it turns out, -39.8 C is hard to beat.The North Pole was expected to hover around -32 C Wednesday.Siberia, typically the coldest place on earth, will likely deal with light snow and temperatures ranging from -15 to -23 C. The winds there will also be light, so wind chill will not be much of a factor.Taking it out of our atmosphere, Mars hasn’t given an updated forecast for Wednesday, but expected a high of -7 C Tuesday. Even though the forecasted low was -70 C, an afternoon on the red planet doesn’t sound so bad compared to Winnipeg.WATCH: Winnipeg’s freezing cold temperatures are colder than MarsThe extended cold snap for around the prairies has broken some records in northern Manitoba but nothing for Winnipeg. Record lows this time of year usually range between -40 and -44 and have typically been set back in the 1880 and 1890s.Where Winnipeg could break a record is in coldest daily maximum temperature — the coldest “high.” This time of year, the records go back to some of the coldest dates in local memory as recent as 2004 but also 1996 and 1966. They also go back even further for the first days of February back to 1886 and 1891.WATCH: ‘Polar vortex’ grips major U.S. cities in historic low temperaturesThe record on Jan. 30, set in 2004, is -30.8 C. Winnipeg was expecting a high of -31 C Wednesday, so it will be close.As the weekend approaches, the temperatures around the southern prairies are expected to moderate and start to return closer to normal with these days likely ending up as the coldest of the entire winter.PHOTOS OF THE ARCTIC 1979, 2012 AND 2017 COMPARED TO 79 LEVELS.Largest Increase In November 2018 Sea Ice Volume On RecordPosted on December 13, 2018 by tonyhellerThe increase in Arctic sea ice volume during November was the largest on record.. Also the science of flooding is not evidence of warming. From our childhood we know rainy days are cooler and sunny days are warmer.MY PUBLISHED COMMENTThe issue of carbon taxes for America has a new hurdle with the mantra ENERGY AFFORDABILITY from the 'YELLOW JACKET' policy backlash by violent protestors in France. Macron's government may be defeated for attempting this unwise political tool, like Australia where AXE THE TAX defeated an incumbent government. Australia was the first country to impose a carbon tax. Washington State follows the backlash in Ontario where Premier Doug Ford and his conservative coalition were swept into power by Canadian voters in June on a platform that opposed carbon taxes. “In some senses the French are ahead of the rest of the world on this,” said John Constable, energy editor at the Global Warming Policy Forum, a U.K.-based think tank. The UN IPCC lacks both science and public credibility with their false concern about trace amounts 0.117% human emissions of Co2 from fossil fuels. The physics denies the extraordinary Al Gore alarmist claim that humans have become the control knob of the climate???Washington state voters reject carbon taxISSUE: Why carbon taxes are climatically useless.Trudeau’s plan resembles the papal indulgences of old.He wants Canadians to pay a financial penalty for the sin of using fossil fuel energy, even though fossil fuels power modern civilization.Just as papal indulgences did nothing to remove the sin, Trudeau’s carbon pricing plan does nothing, or next to nothing, to meet Trudeau’s commitments to the United Nations to reduce our industrial greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 30% by 2030.Goldstein Toronto SunENERGYWith Climate Change Science Unsettled, a Carbon Tax is Even More UselessNicolas Loris / @NiconomistLoris / April 18, 2013 / 0 Comments••Kurt Strazdins KRT/NewscomReuters’s environment correspondent Alister Doyle provides even more fodder for why a carbon (energy) tax or the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulation of greenhouse gas emissions is economically and environmentally foolish. Doyle writes:Scientists are struggling to explain a slowdown in climate change that has exposed gaps in their understanding and defies a rise in global greenhouse gas emissions.Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon.Figuring out the reasons and severity behind climate change is a worthwhile cause, but Doyle’s article is another example that the science is far from settled as to what is causing climate change, how quickly it’s occurring, and the effect of increased greenhouse gas emissions (natural or manmade) on the earth’s temperature. Doyle continues:Theories for the pause include that deep oceans have taken up more heat with the result that the surface is cooler than expected, that industrial pollution in Asia or clouds are blocking the sun, or that greenhouse gases trap less heat than previously believed.The change may be a result of an observed decline in heat-trapping water vapor in the high atmosphere, for unknown reasons. It could be a combination of factors or some as yet unknown natural variations, scientists say.Richard Tol, a climate and economics professor at the University of Sussex, told Doyle, “My own confidence in the data has gone down in the past five years.”One of The Heritage Foundation’s eight principles of The American Conservation Ethic is that science should be employed as one tool to guide public policy. Science is a critical and informative guiding tool, but it should not dictate public policy, especially when lawmakers distort the science to help them meet their policy agenda. As we explain in the principles, “Commitments to use the force of law should be made with great caution and demand a high degree of scientific certainty. To do otherwise is likely to result in environmental laws based on scientific opinions rather than scientific facts.”Even with the science unsettled, proponents of carbon taxes, the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations, and green energy subsidies argue that we should enact these policies as precautionary measures and protect future generations. But we’ll be leaving our children and grandchildren a world with higher energy costs and less economic prosperity with nothing to show for it.Since the large majority of America’s energy needs are met with carbon-emitting conventional fuels, a carbon tax would cripple economic growth. Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis recently analyzed the carbon tax legislationproposed by Senators Barbara Boxer (D–CA) and Bernie Sanders (I–VT) and found family income losses of $1,000 per year and 400,000 jobs lost as soon as 2016.It’s not just making our children and grandchildren worse off; it’s making us worse off through higher energy bills, higher product prices, and less economic opportunity. And as the carbon tax increases, so does the economic burden.What’s worse, the climate impact of a carbon tax is almost too small to notice. A $25-per-ton tax would moderate global warming at most by 0.11 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.Congress should be proactive in addressing climate change, but only by categorically rejecting the idea of a carbon tax and removing the ability of the EPA and any other federal agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.Climate Change Science Unsettled, Carbon Tax Even More UnwisePCs win Ontario election — here’s a look at the promises Doug Ford madeBy Maham AbediNational Online Journalist, Breaking News Global NewsPCs win Ontario election — here’s a look at the promises Doug Ford madeMY PUBLISHED COMMENT‪James Grant Matkin‪ ·‪This election victory is a great victory for science as Doug Ford promises to fight the phony carbon tax. Climate alarmists are a scourage to the 2 billion living off grid without electiricity. They need life giving fossil fuels particularly coal. Demonizing Co2 vital plant food based on pseudo-science in order under the PARIS ACCORD to make the climate colder is just plain madness. Unstoppable solar cycles and ocean currents are far more the control knob of the climate than miniscule amounts of essential human emissions of Co2. We need more Co2 as it is wholly beneficial. Global cooling is the fear for the next few decades and we must eschew inefficient, wasteful and intermittent renewables that under Premier Wynne punished Ontario citizens with high cost electricity rates. Congratulations to Ontario voters for their common sense repudiating climate alarmism.The Ontario Progressive Conservatives under Ford won a majority mandate on Thursday ending more than 15 years of Liberal rule in the province, defeating Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals and Andrea Horwath’s NDP.Some of his big-ticket items include a 20 per cent tax cut for the middle class, scrapping the Liberals’ updated sex-ed curriculum, ending cap and trade, reducing business taxes, while also building new long-term care beds, and a tax rebate for child care. Ford, who at times drew comparisons to Donald Trump, also made a number of populist pledges including cutting gas prices by 10 cents a litre, introducing buck-a-beer and cutting hydro bills by 12 percent.Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives win majority governmentRECENT GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTHGlobal warming caused by minuscule amounts, near zero, of ‘Co2 is a myth. The UN IPCC predicted in 2001 that global warming would cause ‘moderate winters’ according to their computer modelling. Untrue just like the alarmist hypothesis of Co2 controlling the climate.Delingpole: The Frozen Hell Outside Your Window Is What Global Warming Looks LikeThe yellow sphere represents 1 to 2,500 molecules which is the amount of CO2 amongst the nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air.There is too little Co2 to COVER ANYTHING this means carbon dioxide has no meaningful role in the earth’s climate. The use of a greenhouse has a climate metaphor is the heart of great misunderstanding.THE BIGGEST MYTH OF ALLThe End of Snow? – The New York Times2017 : The Age’s resident global warming catastrophist Peter Hannam signalled the end of snow…A good example of climate predictions gone awry is in the area of snow.“97%” of venerated ‘scientific’ institutions in concert with the warmist mainstream media were predicting the end of snow…IN 2000, climate expert Dr David Viner of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit(CRU) assured us that :Snowfall will become “A very rare and exciting event…Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”Dr David Viner – Senior scientist, climatic research unit (CRU)SNOWFALL Will Become “A Very Rare And Exciting Event…” | ClimatismIN 2001, the UN IPCC predicted diminished snowfalls as human CO2 increased, claiming that “milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms”due to the activities of personkind…IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeTHEY also forecast “warmer winters and fewer cold spells, because of climate change…”warmer-winters-ipcc*THE “97% of Experts” Agreed Too!2000 : a prediction from Professor Mojib Latif of Germany’s GEOMAR Heimholtz Centre for Ocean Research…“Winters with strong frosts and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will no longer exist at our latitudes.” – Professor Mojib Latif2000 : Spiegel…“Good bye winter. Never again snow?”2004 : Mark Lynas told us…“Snow has become so rare that when it does fall – often just for a few hours – everything grinds to a halt. In early 2003 a ‘mighty’ five-centimetre snowfall in southeast England caused such severe traffic jams that many motorists had to stay in their cars overnight. Today’s kids are missing out . . . Many of these changes are already underway, but have been accelerating over the last two decades. Termites have already moved into southern England. Garden centres are beginning to stock exotic sub-tropical species, which only a few years ago would have been killed off by winter…” – Mark Lynas2005 : Christopher Krull, Black Forest Tourism Association / Spiegel…Planning for a snowless future: “Our study is already showing that that there will be a much worse situation in 20 years.”2005 : George Monbiot on climate change and snow…Winter is no longer the great grey longing of my childhood. The freezes this country suffered in 1982 and 1963 are – unless the Gulf Stream stops – unlikely to recur. Our summers will be long and warm. Across most of the upper northern hemisphere, climate change, so far, has been kind to us…2006 : Daniela Jacob of Max Planck Institute for Meterology, Hamburg …“Yesterday’s snow… Because temperatures in the Alps are rising quickly, there will be more precipitation in many places. But because it will rain more often than it snows, this will be bad news for tourists. For many ski lifts this means the end of business.”Less Snow and Drier Summers in German Forecast | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 30.04.20062006 : The Independent‘s somber editorial admonished us that the lack of snow was evidence of a “dangerous seasonal disorder”…The countryside is looking rather peculiar this winter. It seems we have a number of unexpected guests for Christmas. Dragonflies, bumblebees and red admiral butterflies, which would normally be killed off by the frost, can still be seen in some parts of the country . . . Some might be tempted to welcome this late blossoming of the natural world as a delightful diversion from the bleakness of this time of year. But these fluctuations should be cause for concern because it is overwhelmingly likely that they are a consequence of global warming . . . all this is also evidence that global warming is occurring at a faster rate than many imagined…2007 : BBC “One Planet Special”…“It Seems the Winters of Our Youth are Unlikely to Return” presenter Richard Hollingham … speaks to climate scientists to get their views. Their conclusion? In the words of the BBC, they all give “predictions of warmer winters, for UK & the Northern Hemisphere”.2007 : Schleswig Holstein NABU…“Ice, snow, and frost will disappear, i.e. milder winters” … “Unusually warm winters without snow and ice are now being viewed by many as signs of climate change.”2007 : Western Mail (Wales Online) … article, entititled “Snowless Winters Forecast for Wales as World Warms Up” quotes one of the global warming movement’s key figures, Sir John Houghton, former head of the IPCC and former head of the UK Met Office…Former head of the Met Office Sir John Houghton, who is one of the UK’s leading authorities on climate change, said all the indicators suggest snowy winters will become increasingly rare He said, “Snowlines are going up in altitude all over the world. The idea that we will get less snow is absolutely in line with what we expect from global warming.”2007 : Die Zeit…“First the snow disappears, and then winter.”WHY 97% CONSENSUS ABOUT THE END OF SNOW?This is a vital question and the answer punctures the human caused Co2 climate change.The alarmists claimed that the climate will become too hot and cause a ‘catastrophe’ for human civilization. With this view of the future of course winters must end as they moderate a too hot summer preventing a climate crisis. This predictions puts winter weather in play in a way all other weather is not. Further this prediction about moderate winters must happen or the apocalyptic view that human emissions of fossil fuels will create a climate crisis catastrophe is just fiction? There is no polar ice imagined in the future by the NOAA alarmists.NOAA PROJECTED END OF POLAR ICE AND SNOW BY 2085.FAILED. The prediction of moderate winters without the Arctic polar ice is bunk. Mother nature and natural variation wins over the discarded theories of the the 1800s. After 2000 Arctic ice expands and does not retreat as predicted. Here is reality not computer modelled political scaremongering -IMAGES | SEPTEMBER 20, 2000Global View of the Arctic Ocean