Rep. Dana Rohrabacher - WikimediaIf you believe in man-made climate change — and think the nation’s unemployment rate truly has fallen to 7.5 percent — then Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has a bridge to sell you.

At a Tuesday-morning House hearing on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, the outspoken Mr. Rohrabacher, California Republican, took aim at environmentalists’ claims that mankind is fueling global warming by continuing to use fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.

A new paper published in Environmental Research Letters finds that current climate models are not able to predict regional, seasonal temperature and precipitation changes and have huge "mean errors between 1 and 18 °C." Therefore, according to the authors, the models are especially unable to predict the impacts of regional temperature and precipitation changes.

According to the authors, "no single [climate model] matches observations in more than 30% of the areas for monthly precipitation and wet-day frequency, 50% for diurnal range and 70% for mean temperatures." The majority of the IPCC AR4 report discusses the alleged regional impacts of climate change based on these same models, but according to the authors, the models won't be ready to predict the impacts of climate change for another 5 to 50 years, stating, "we estimate that at least 5–30 years of [computer modeling research] is required to improve regional temperature simulations and at least 30–50 years for precipitation simulations, for these to be directly input into impact models."

On Sunday, CBN News reported that the earth is most likely going into a long period of global cooling, not global warming, as a result of the sun going into a cycle of decreased activity, which will likely have an impact on the earth's climate, yielding cooler temperatures.

A group of Russian scientists conducting research form an observatory in St. Petersburg, indicated that this cooling period can last as long as 250 years.

Joe Bastardi, who is the chief forecaster at WeatherBell, not only confirmed those predictions, but pointed out that the cooling trend is already here.

A recent video from a President Obama-aligned group is under fire from fact-checkers for claiming hundreds of House members voted to call climate change a "hoax" -- namely, because they didn't. 

The video from Organizing for Action cleverly splices together quotes from Republican climate change skeptics while building up to the factoid about the vote, which was on an amendment to a broader bill in 2011. 

© aldegonde le compte - Fotolia.comNEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, was signed into law in 1970 by President Richard Nixon with the intent to assess environmental impacts of Federal projects. “In enacting NEPA, Congress recognized that nearly all Federal activities affect the environment in some way and mandated that before Federal agencies make decisions, they must consider the effects of their actions on the quality of the human environment.” NEPA is administered by the Council on Environmental Quality within the Executive Office of the President.

Although established with good intentions, the reality is that NEPA has turned into a byzantine bureaucratic maze that stifles productivity. For instance, remember a few years ago when President Obama touted “shovel ready projects” to get the economy working again? Well, those “shovel ready projects” were delayed because they had to contend with NEPA. Before a single shovel can hit the dirt it usually takes more than five years for the average Federal project to jump through all the normal environmental hoops. Some private projects take longer, for example the proposed Rosemont Copper project is seven years into the permitting process.

Interview with Piers Corbyn about Solar Lunar Forecasting; How he got the UK's winter right and the MET office got it all wrong.

Notorious climate alarmist Michael ”Hockey Stick” Mann is rightly attacked for this sea level scare:

He said sea levels could rise six to nine feet by the end of the century. “We’re not talking the 20 feet that would be necessary to submerge Manhattan. But the Jersey Shore of my youth will not exist if we continue on this course.”

If Mann is damned as a baseless fear-monger for warning of a rise of less than three metres in a century, what do we conclude about the ABC’s chief science presenter, Robyn Williams, who six years ago warned of potential rises of not three metres but 100?

Andrew Bolt: I’m telling you, there’s a lot of fear out there. So what I do is, when I see an outlandish claim being made...so Tim Flannery suggesting rising seas this next century eight stories high, Professor Mike Archer, dean of engineering at the University of NSW…

Al Gore hopes to cross paths again with media titan Rupert Murdoch to pitch him on the dangers of climate change.

Here’s the tail end of Steve Fishman’s big new Gore profile in New York magazine:

And there’s one specific capitalist he hopes to enlighten. Gore tells me of his ambition to have another meeting with Rupert Murdoch, to talk him through the issue, convert him to the cause. “There is still hope that he will awaken to the reality of this,” Gore says. “It would make a huge difference if he would.”

Despite his onerous duties as head of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajenda Pauchari had the spare time to publish (in 2010) a bawdy sex novel called Return to Almora. 

Going him one better, a team of 240 U.S. scientists (whose common bond is that they consume oodles of federal dollars) completed a manuscript for editorial review called “The Third National Climate Assessment Report” that is much more imaginative, with a climate hotter than Pauchari’s steamiest scenes.

It, too, is the stuff of fantasy. In the Assessment’s 1,200 horror-studded pages, almost everything that happens in our life — birth, death, hunger, war, and existential malaise, to name a few — is somehow made worse by pernicious emissions of carbon dioxide and the joggling of surface average temperature by a mere two degrees. Talk about creative writing!

The UK Independence Party has overtaken the Liberal Democrats as the third party of British politics, Nigel Farage declared today as he made major gains in local elections. As senior Conservatives scrambled to justify haemorrhaging support to the anti-EU party, Mr Farage said he was at the head of a ‘wave of protest’ which would permanently change the political landscape. --Daily Mail, 3 May 2013

Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has declared his party is on course to change the face of British politics in the wake of its strongest performance in local elections, making a series of gains across England. In the biggest surge by a fourth party in England since the second world war, Ukip averaged 26% of the vote in council wards where it stood, according to a BBC estimate. Tim Farron, the Liberal Democrat president, said his party had been "obliterated" in the South Shields byelection, where it came seventh and lost its deposit. --Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, 3 May 2013