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Courtesy of CNSNews:

Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) flight (not sure if it was commercial or private) was delayed and she was unable to attend the Global Warming Rally in Washington D.C. due to a blizzard that hit the D.C. area Sunday night. 

House Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Edward Markey (D-MA) was also forced to cancel his appearance due to the weather.

I honestly wonder why they don’t schedule these rallies for summertime for some dramatic impact.

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The National Snow and Ice Data Center is one of the key organizations in tracking sea ice coverage.  Yes, this is the same organization that thought an ice-free polar region was possible by September of 2008.  It appears that they have had sensor issues that have caused them to incorrectly report some sea areas ice-free when they were actually ice-covered.  They have reported that they have under-reported ice coverage by 500,000 square kilometers.  NSIDC has removed their invalid data and are searching for other data sets to find accurate information.

Sea ice is currently tracking higher than the previous 4 years.

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Let me preface this by saying that I don’t buy into AGW theory, but I know some of my readers do and may find this interesting…

AFP has an article stating that biofuels are actually increasing the rate of CO2 emissions.  According to the article, a good portion of the land used to grow crops used for biofuels are newly cut rainforests or disturbed forests.  The stored CO2 that is released by the cutting of these forests will take 40 to 120 years to break even in a high-yield crop (such as sugar).  Worse yet, a low-yield crop (such as corn or soybeans) will require 300 to 1500 years to break even.

Throw in that biofuels raise food prices as well as the negative energy return of using them, and you have to question using crop-based biofuels if your movitvation is to reduce CO2.

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Yet another question mark has been raised regarding the monitoring of global temperature.  Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) of NASA announced about a week ago that October was the hottest on record.  Oddly enough, this was the same month that Tibet experienced its worst snowstorm ever, London has its first October snow in 70 years, and large parts of the US have record cold and snowfall (including 115 record cold temperatures and 63 new snowfall records).  The US actually had the 70th warmest October in the past 114 years.

GISS maps showed that a large part of Russia was 10 degrees higher than normal.  This would explain the increase in global temperature except for the fact that the numbers were apparently from September and not October.  GISS quickly revised its figures and claimed to have found an area of the Arctic that was unusually hot (yes, the same Arctic that has recovered from the extreme summer melt so well that it has 31.3% more sea ice than last year and the largest growth ever recorded).

GISS has resorted to some fingerpointing that throws some doubt on the main source of data that Global Warming alarmists such as the IPCC use as their main source of evidence.  Dr. James Hansen has been forced to revise his numbers in the past, including having to admit that the warmest decade in the 20th century was actually the 1930’s and not the 1990’s as he previously claimed.

The carbon credits scheme is sure to be in the works with Obama and the Democrats soon to take control.  Such a ploy for wealth redistribution should be based in fact and not speculation based on invalid statistics.  Errors such as this should raise red flags and cause investigations, not be ignored as seems to happen these days with the whole global warming topic.

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Florida State University released a study showing that the past 24 months tropical cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is the most inactive in the past 30 years.  2007 was the least active year since 1977, and the 4th slowest year since 1958.

Some are starting to reconsider the notion that global warming is intensifying hurricanes.  One thing is clear, climate and hurricanes are complex and we still have much to learn before we can leap to conclusions.

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