Tuesday - February 09, 2010

Signs, signs, everywhere there’s signs

NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate Change Announcement

As D.C. continued to dig out from Snowmageddon and is keeping an eye on another storm system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement.

NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, is going to be providing information to individuals and decision-makers through a new NOAA Climate Service office. “More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters. People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives,” the release says.

Earlier snowmelt? That would be nice.

Turns out the release was planned prepared ahead of the snowstorm, which shut federal agencies today and forced its senders to hold a press conference by telephone instead of at the National Press Club.

It’s not the first time inclement weather has put a chill on official efforts to tackle climate change. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to leave the Copenhagen summit early in December to get back to D.C. before the blizzard known as Snowpocalypse grounded all flights.

Uh huh.

Yep, another walloper is on the way. The Chicken Little Weather Service is saying we could get a foot here. We got 6” the other day, and somehow most of it has evaporated already. Beats me how, since it hasn’t gone above freezing the whole time. Whatever. Guess I’d better go to the store and get a bit of this and that, just in case they under-predict the storm by some miracle.

I just hope Al Gore isn’t anywhere near where I live today. I checked his website but it doesn’t tell me. It does rave on and on about the very first consumer carbon credit being sold. And at a “profit” no less!

The Pennsylvania couple have sold the world’s first carbon credit awarded for a reduction in personal carbon emissions. About 1,800 others have signed up to follow suit - underlining the US public’s readiness to press ahead on the issue.

The Wilsons began by getting rid of their son’s heated water bed, turning off power to computers and televisions when not in use, changing to energy-efficient light bulbs, hang-drying their laundry and, finally, investing $58,000 (€42,000 £37,000) in a solar panel system - until they reduced their electricity bill to zero.

Then they signed up on the MyEmissionsExchange. com site to have their energy savings calculated. They found that they had already saved one tonne of carbon, which earned them a carbon credit. The exchange sold the credit for $21.50 to Molten Metal Equipment Innovations of Ohio, taking a 20 per cent commission.

So they made a profit of $3.58 on an investment of $58,000. Way to go! Obviously beneficiaries of a government education.

If any readers would like to participate in the global carbon credits scam, you can go to myeex.com and they will set you up. All you have to do is fill out some forms and then mail them all your bills, and in a couple months you too could be earning a few extra bucks. Don’t worry, I’m sure your billing information is perfectly safe. Right.

Oh, and that NOAA announcement? What else? They’re going to EXPAND GOVERNMENT to create a new office that will function as a clearing house for climate change data. Yeah, I’ll trust that one. Send all the data to the government (will Hansen be in charge???) and let them distribute it as they see fit.

Commerce Department Proposes Establishment of NOAA Climate Service

New office would target nation’s fast-accelerating climate information needs
NOAA launches http://www.climate.gov as portal for climate science and services

February 8, 2010

Individuals and decision-makers across widely diverse sectors – from agriculture to energy to transportation – increasingly are asking NOAA for information about climate change in order to make the best choices for their families, communities and businesses. To meet the rising tide of these requests, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the intent to create a NOAA Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together the agency’s strong climate science and service delivery capabilities.

Posted by Drew458     on 02/09/2010 at 01:30 PM   
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