Rumors Of North Dakota's Recession Are Exaggerated -- February 26, 2016

From Say Anything Blog today, rumors of North Dakota's recession are exaggerated, by David Flynn. A must-read.

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You Have Got To Be Kidding

I Can't Make This Stuff Up

On December 12, 2015, I presented my argument why I knew scientists and government leaders know that global warming is nothing serious to worry about.  Today, EcoWatch validates that argument. Despite the fact that warmists tell us the "world hangs in the balance" with regard to global warming, when one of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions comes up with a huge plan to combat their emissions, the US and the global community cry "foul" and say India cannot execute that plan because they violate the gentlemen's agreement that was agreed to in Paris a few months ago. I can't make this stuff up.

Again, the warmists tells us the earth hangs in the balance.

India comes up with a plan to curb their emissions.  And then this from EcoWatch:

India has been told that it cannot go ahead as planned with its ambitious plan for a huge expansion of its renewable energy sector, because it seeks to provide work for Indian people. The case against India was brought by the U.S.

The ruling, by the World Trade Organization, says India’s National Solar Mission—which would create local jobs, while bringing electricity to millions of people—must be changed because it includes a domestic content clause requiring part of the solar cells to be produced nationally.

What a difference two months make. On Dec. 12 last year, U.S. President Barack Obama praised the Paris agreement on tackling climate change, just hours after it was finally concluded. “We’ve shown what’s possible when the world stands as one,” he said, adding that the agreement “represents the best chance we have to save the one planet that we’ve got.”

India should be applauded in their efforts to lower carbon emissions. They may be the biggest users of coal on a per capita basis. But yet, because they want to provide jobs for their own people, the US "shuts India down."

This tells me all I need to know about how serious global warming really is. Not very serious. Seriously.

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Australia Stops The Nonsense

When the US "shuts down" India's plan to cut emissions, I know the US doesn't "believe" in anthropomorphic global warming. Not does Australia. From The New York Times, February 28, 2016:

Perched on a wild, windy promontory on the rugged tip of northwestern Tasmania, the tiny Cape Grim research station has been measuring airborne greenhouse gases since 1976.

It is one of a handful of such stations in the world, and because the wind that reaches it has traveled more than 6,600 miles across the southern oceans, uncontaminated by cities or factories, the measurements are considered a baseline for tracking changes in the earth’s atmosphere.

Now a decision by Australia’s science agency to lay off 350 researchers and shift the organization’s focus to more commercial enterprise threatens not only the work done at the station but also climate studies around the globe.

Scientists worldwide have protested the shift, saying the loss of the Australian data — from both Cape Grim and the agency’s role in a vital ocean-monitoring program called Argo — could impair their ability to predict severe regional weather and help people prepare for extreme floods, drought, bushfires and cyclones.

“This, for me, is such a big shock,” said Ronald G. Prinn, director of the Center for Global Change Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “To think that you could stop measurements or throw out the people, that doesn’t make any sense to me and to many, many other people around the world.”