The EPA is still doing outreach in support of the plan and we are getting “news releases” on comments. 

The US generates 13% of global CO2. If we reduced emissions by 20%, that would cut us down to about 10% of current global emissions.

However, Obama agreed to let China increase their emissions for the next 16 years. At China’s  current growth rates, there will be a huge increase in global CO2 emissions, which will place any US reductions in the noise.

The reason that China agreed to it, is because it puts American industry at a competitive disadvantage due to increased fuel costs. It was a win-win for China. They do nothing, while Obama shoots the US in the foot.

Judy Curry recently noted that Phil Jones’ 2014 temperature index (recently the subject of major adjustments in methodology) might be a couple of hundredths of degree higher than a few years ago and alerted her readers to potential environmental NGO triumphalism. Unsurprisingly, it has also been observed in response that the hiatus continues in full force for the satellite records, with 1998 remaining the warmest satellite year by a considerable margin.

Equally noteworthy however – and of greater interest to CA readers where there has been more focus on model-observation discrepancy   – is that the overheating discrepancy between models and surface temperatures in 2014 was the fourth highest in “recorded” history and that the 5 largest warm discrepancies have occurred in the past 6 years.  The cumulative discrepancy between models and observations is far beyond any previous precedent. This is true for both surface and satellite comparisons.

In the figure below, I’ve…

by Planning Engineer

Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources.

Organic farming as in farming controlled by chemophobes, is just plain stupid.

The Green Revolution is in full swing because of Genetic Modifications that improve plant strains to herbicide resistance, drought resistance so production can be maximized.

Gary Baise tells me that soil testing and new farming techniques have produced corn production on dryland in the MidWest to levels unheard of 3 decades ago.

Now the production on his land in Indiana and Illinois is close to 300 bushels an acre, and when I was a young man irrigated, heavily fertilized corn land wasn’t even capable of that level of production.

So Henry Miller, a GM expert, discusses the problem of the EPA FANATICS who hate progress and are against progress because they are misanthropes.

On December 10, 2007 Nobel Prize winner Albert Arnold “Al” Gore solemnly forecast an ice-free Arctic “seven years from now…..our world is spinning out of kilter”

The forecast date has arrived, and Gaia celebrated the event with a record gain in ice -lurching back close to the 1979-2000 mean.

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

Our current leaders are undeterred by these failures, and simply lie, cheat and ramp up the propaganda rather than accept reality.

President Obama told comedian Stephen Colbert that he is weighing the benefits of the Keystone XL oil pipeline against its potential contribution to “disastrous” climate change.

Obama made the comments Monday night on  “The Colbert Report,” which was taped at George Washington University.

He highlighted many drawbacks of the proposed pipeline to connect Alberta’s oil sands to the Gulf Coast, and dismissed some of its supposed benefits.

“We’ve got to make sure that it’s not adding to the problem of carbon and climate change,” Obama said.

“It could create a couple of thousand potential jobs in the initial construction of the pipeline, but we’ve got to measure that against whether or not it is going to contribute to an overall warming of the planet that could be disastrous.”

The remarks largely reflect what Obama said last summer about how he is evaluating whether to approve the permit for the pipeline to…

Heat Waves in Europe Will Increase, Study Finds

By DAVID JOLLY DEC. 8, 2014

PARIS — In June 2003, a high-pressure weather system took hold over Western Europe and hovered there for weeks, bringing warm tropical air to the region and making that summer the hottest since at least 1540, the year King Henry VIII discarded his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

Temperatures were about 2.3 degrees Celsius, or 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit, above average that summer, contributing to perhaps 70,000 additional deaths and hitting the elderly particularly hard. The heat was a factor in the outbreak of forest fires and in lower than usual crop yields. It caused Alpine glaciers to shrink at a rate double that seen in the previous record summer, five years earlier.

Now, three scientists from the Met Office, the British weather agency, have concluded that human-caused global warming is going to make European summer heat…