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sounds persuasive, yet it is precisely what the older tradition, the natural law tradition, denies. We do know better; we are not doing the best we can. The problem of moral decline is volitional, not cognitive; it has little to do with knowledge. By and large we do know right from wrong, but wish we didnt. We only mak... | 0_0 |
The oddity here is two-fold: what happened around 1977 or so, and what happened around 2002 or so? From 1977 on, after twenty years with no significant land or sea temperature change, both land and sea temperatures start to rise. In addition, the land temperature rises much more rapidly than the SST. Then around 1998, ... | 1_4 |
Sure, there are some time delay issues, probably 10-15 years, as well as some potential anthropogenic cooling from aerosols, but none of this closes these tremendous gaps. Even with an exaggerated temperature history, only the no feedback 1C per century case is really validated by history. And, if one assumes the actua... | 3_1 |
Kenneth Anderson is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law. He is also a professor of international law at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC. | 0_0 |
Recent extreme-weather events cannot be blamed on global warming, because there has not been any global warming to speak of. It is as simple as that. | 1_7 |
There is an estimated 6 billion barrels of shale oil in the area, which stretches across Scotland and includes Glasgow and Edinburgh, slightly more than the central estimate of 4.4 billion barrels in the Weald Basin in southern England. | 4_5 |
There is no ??? radiative heat trapping ?? as the net heat flow is nil between surface and air. And air does not ??? warm the surface?? ! | 2_3 |
CEI President Kent Lassman blasted Walker on Monday, saying in a prepared statement that the attorney general believes he is "above the law." | 0_0 |
"Executives at NPR affiliate stations across the United States have begun publicly voicing discontent in the aftermath of the network's dismissal of news analyst Juan Williams, with several station managers openly questioning the actions and judgment of NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller." | 0_0 |
The developers claims, parroted by the Greens, about the amount of CO2 emissions that the wind farm will save are entirely without foundation, as are their claims that the wind farm will help to meet the UKs CO2 emissions targets laid down by our unelected masters in Brussels. The array, like all wind farms, will actua... | 4_4 |
Noting that "the photosynthesis of the majority of the species examined was not saturated at the current levels of DIC in the ocean and responded to an increase in CO 2 ," Koch et al . conclude that seagrasses and many marine macroalgae have the potential to respond positively, in terms of photosynthesis and growth, un... | 3_3 |
Slappt och olagligt av Olle H ggstr m | 0_0 |
Thirteen Thousand Years of Storminess in the Northeastern United States | 0_0 |
"To avoid having the Senate vote on her nomination (as the Constitution's Appointments Clause clearly requires for such presidential appointees), which might result in her nomination being defeated, the administration has formally appointed her not to be Director of the Bureau (the position she will in fact be exercisi... | 0_0 |
What Murray says is wrong in every respect. The deaths in the sea are not at all in line with security analysts predictions else they would have counselled against the interventions. As IPCC AR5 report makes clear, urgent action could well be a conflict risk factor in the same way that incautiously bombing other countr... | 0_0 |
Over the past 50+ years, North Atlantic OHC anomalies rose at a rate that almost tripled the rise in global OHC anomalies. Refer to Figure 5. I discussed and illustrated the natural factors that impact the long-term North Atlantic OHC anomaly trends in the post North Atlantic Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Is Govern... | 2_1 |
The Met Office makes an amazing discovery right before Cancun. What a stroke of good fortune for the occupants of this planet. | 0_0 |
The email's proclamation, once again, exposes the environmentalists' agenda: "President Obama hasn't always done the right thing for the environment. He should have denied the Keystone Pipeline years ago, he should be rolling back unchecked fracking, and he should have taken stronger action on climate both at home and ... | 0_0 |
That the earths terrestrial CO2 uptake has been growing is evidenced in the remarkable enhancement of global vegetation during the past 20 years, as reported by in a recent paper by Ramakrishna Nemani and colleagues. Nemani et al. report that this growth enhancement results from a combination of two major influencesthe... | 3_3 |
For example, top selling German daily Bild did not even bother to feature the MPIs Arctic meltdown press conference. Instead Bild featured a story on how clouds have been getting lower and that a negative feedback seems to be in play and is acting to cool the planet. | 3_1 |
The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year. More than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it have been left ice-bound and a cruise ship attempting the route was forced to turn back. | 1_1 |
The climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive are supposed to be simulations of Earths climate, but the simulated sea surface temperatures of the models used by the IPCC for their 5 th Assessment Report are definitely not of this planet. 70% of the Earth is covered by oceans, seas and lakes. Because the models show no... | 5_1 |
When the territorial integrity of one of its members is threatened by an attack, NATO cannot afford to lose. It would sacrifice its credibility as an alliance. . . . But in stabilization operations the existence of NATO is not threatened. Here NATO can afford to fail without losing its credibility as an alliance. . . .... | 0_0 |
In stark contrast to the unified Democratic position, the Republican field largely defies easy classification even after significant scrutiny. John McCain, who has long endorsed carbon emission trading, continues to do so, though at a less aggressive level than the Democratic candidates. Two other RepublicansMitt Romne... | 0_0 |
Indeed, Spencer's satellite data, which measures the average temperature of the lowest few miles of the atmosphere, showed no significant global warming trend for more than 21 years before an incredibly powerful El Nino warming event hit late last year. | 1_4 |
ONE : Most of the angular momentum of the solar system is held by the giant outer planets, and their collective motions drive the Sun??s irregular orbit about the centre-of-mass of the system. Variable torque applied to the Sun (an inertial effect) is the principal driver of solar-magnetic outflow, and this modulates t... | 2_1 |
Senator Menendez, Senator Corker, Members of the Committee: | 0_0 |
Martinez et al . report that the warmed plants showed "good photochemical performance and photosynthetic adjustment under warming conditions," which led to "higher growth and biomass production than control plants," likely due to "adjustments in both the photosynthetic thermal optimum and the photosynthetic rates at th... | 3_2 |
These findings are but another common example of an important aspect of earth's climate and how it operates: it oscillates back and forth between centennial-scale intervals of relative cold and warmth with a full-period temporal mean of approximately 1500 years (see Climate Oscillations (Millennial Variability) in our ... | 2_1 |
This is the "scientific consensus" that wants to force the rich world into paying countless trillions of dollars, countless millions of lost jobs, unimaginable loss of modern comforts to solve a problem that can be "proven" to exist only by the use of forgeries, fraud, and lies! | 0_0 |
Global Warming Survey Draws Skepticism, Ho-Hum Response | 0_0 |
Nearby Rottnest Island is the site of famous studies of sea level variation over the past few thousand years, including some sea levels a few metres higher than present. | 0_0 |
Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 13% in the past five years, because of new energy-saving technologies and a doubling in the take-up of renewable energy, the report compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) said . | 0_0 |
Darbah et al . report they recorded "an increase of 140% and 70% for 2006 and 2007, respectively, in the total number of trees that produced male flowers under elevated CO 2 and an increase of 260% in 2006 and 100% in 2007, respectively, in the quantity of male flowers produced under elevated CO 2 ." What it means | 3_3 |
Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., reached agreement in the Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee on reauthorization of the education bill passed in 2001 as No Child Left Behind. Murray showed similar skill in reaching a bipartisan budget agreement with Paul Ryan, then House Budget Chair... | 0_0 |
After 300 years of global warming, during nearly all of which we could not on any view have influenced the climate to a measurable degree, it is scarcely surprising that recent decades will be warmer than earlier decades. That is what one would expect. If one has been climbing up a steep hill for a long time, one shoul... | 2_1 |
Risbey et al. (2014), like numerous other papers, are basically attempting to blame a shift in ENSO dominance (from a dominance of El Nio events to a dominance of La Nia events) for the recent slowdown in the warming of surface temperatures. Unlike others, they acknowledge that ENSO would also have contributed to the w... | 2_1 |
Justifying his job: Statement by Andrew Steer, Special Envoy for Climate Change, World Bank Group on new Report by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program | 0_0 |
Kent Holsinger, a Colorado-based attorney specializing in ESA issues, told me: "As radical groups continue to push their agendas, other parts of the country are now beginning to feel the threat that westerners have long suffered. The House moved significant, but targeted, legislative measures just recently. Perhaps the... | 0_0 |
Nature has celebrated one year of Climategate with a softy-softy smoochie-smoochie approach, accepting the most faint of excuses by Jones as if they were the final answers to any of the still-open questions about what has happened (just look at how much stuff is popping up in the Comments section of that article). I gu... | 0_0 |
Democrats are taking comfort from the fact that much of the anger and disappointment people feel is aimed at Republicans. It should be scant comfort. To be sure, a recent ABC-Washington Post poll showed Republicans at 32 percent approval and 63 percent disapproval. But Democrats are not exactly exempt from public disgu... | 0_0 |
I will be travelling to #Ukraine next week to meet with the interim Government. #cdnpoli Stephen Harper (@pmharper) March 14, 2014 | 0_0 |
Having studied Climategate it is not difficult to work out how this amazing and welcome press release actually got published instead of being censored or trivialised, as so many other inconvenient anti-AGW scientific papers and observations have been. | 5_2 |
From Robert Kennedy to Nicholas Sarkozy, opinion makers have called for measurements of prosperity and well-being other than GDP. With increasing concerns about inequality, environmental degradation, and the financial crisis, the pressure for new measurement is growing. The Legatum Prosperity Index provides an importan... | 0_0 |
note: photoshopped image above was removed after being exposed as fake. see also here and here .A real photo of polar bears. Polar bear populations up 400% . | 3_2 |
Apparently sensing the need for a reformer with political credibility, Abbas selected Salam Fayyad as his prime minister. Fayyad is a mild-mannered academic with a doctorate in economics from the University of Texas and a career spent mostly with the World Bank, and then as the IMF's representative in Jerusalem. He has... | 0_0 |
NASA just posted their July 2012 global temperature dataset - the hysterical global warming claims made in July don't comport with what looks more like global cooling | 1_2 |
The German Greens advocate massive state intervention and deep interference in ourprivate lives with the aim of squashing individual liberty and independence. The Greens in Berlin, for example, aim to require all do-it-yourself home improvement projects to be subjected to state permitting. This, they say, would ensure ... | 0_0 |
Great power conflicts often begin when a once stronger country believes it is losing its relative position to a rival. This is a more accurate description of Japan's attitude toward China than of the U.S. attitude toward China. In addition to this perceived change in power position is the emotional aspect. These two co... | 0_0 |
Energy-efficiency standards can only be explained by special interest politics. The proposed washing-machine standard, and the process that has created many others like it, is supported by a coalition of DOE bureaucrats and federally-funded advocacy groups who make their living from the efficiency game. Ironically, the... | 0_0 |
Figure 1: Vclav Klaus in Texas two weeks ago. Members of the U.S. Congress committees led by John Dingell (Dem) and Barbara Boxer (Dem) - OK, let's admit that the particular lawmakers are GOP members, to make the sentence more diverse - have decided to ask a European leader about her or his views on the climate change,... | 5_2 |
This issue is important to the ???greenhouse?? debate and arguments over the causes of ???global warming?? because the ~1976 PDO shift to more positive anomalies can be seen clearly as a warming jump in many long term temperature data. A warming jump that looks unlikely to be caused by small steady increases in the tra... | 2_1 |
Originally conceived in 2004 by WWF Australia with the help of an ad agency, Earth Hour launched in 2007 to raise awareness of the dire consequences of global warming. But a lot has happened since then. As the Earth failed to get any warmer, global warming morphed into climate change, and the Kyoto Protocol went the wa... | 0_0 |
Oil production at Prudhoe Bay has not harmed the caribou herd or led to significant environmental harm. Advances in oil production technology mean that pumping oil in ANWR will pose even fewer environmental risks. The legislation passed by the House and Senate limits disturbances to the ground to 2,000 acres in the 19 ... | 0_0 |
The standard jaded view of the effect of politics on foreign policy bemoans its | 0_0 |
Figure 1 at their site shows winter temperatures at the Hahnenkamm station at Kitzbhel (1790 m). Clearly the trend here is dramatic cooling (7.5C per century) taking place over the last 20 years! Moreover 8 of the coldest winters occurred in the last 11 years alone. | 1_2 |
revising the timeline rather than sticking to the agreed plan. This despite the | 0_0 |
In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Phelim McAleer, writer and director of the documentary FrackNation, joins Research Fellow Isaac Orr to discuss hydraulic fracturing, Russia's role in funding anti-fracking groups in the United States and abroad, and McAleer's close encounter with Dakota Access Pipeline pr... | 0_0 |
Now, in a new report, United Nations demographers have bowed to reality and changed this standard 2.1 assumption. For the last five years they have been examining one of the most momentous trends in world history: the startling decline in fertility rates over the last several decades. In the United Nations' most recent... | 0_0 |
A big part of the problem is a lack of understanding of how the deltas behaviour differs from one place to another. Embankments might work to some extent to protect the capital, Dhaka; but as Polder 32 demonstrates, they do not always do their job elsewhere | 0_0 |
Costly informationor information that is not available at any pricecan exacerbate the problem posed by thin net benefits. Continuing uncertainties about the impacts of climate change clearly discourage agreement on GHG controls. Not only do large uncertainties persist about the global costs and benefits of GHG controls... | 0_0 |
He concludes: When we consider past records, recorded variability, causational processes involved and the last centurys data, our best estimate of possible future sea-level changes is +10 +/- 10cm in a century, or, maybe, even +5 +/- 15cm. See also Morner (1995); INQUA (2000). | 1_6 |
Also on the NOAA website is a handy gadget that lets users calculate for themselves temperatures and trends over the past 115 years in the continental United States (my thanks to C3 Headlines for bringing this website to my attention). You just put in the date you want to begin, any time from 1895 on, the date you want... | 0_0 |
Also, his administration seems to disdain the thought of doing what's needed to construct the new generation of nuke plants he called for last evening. The most galling evidence is the handling of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository, construction of which was approved by bipartisan majorities in Congre... | 0_0 |
Taxes paid by companies and employees will dwindle. Instead of paying taxes, newly jobless workers will collect unemployment and welfare benefits from shrinking government coffers. Charities will have much less money, even if deductions for donations remain in the U.S. tax code. | 0_0 |
The five scientists also note that "the ocean will change over coming decades more gradually than in laboratory experiments." And, therefore, they suggest that changing ocean conditions may result in the production of more resistant invertebrate larvae, through phenotypic buffering and natural selection . In addition, ... | 3_2 |
Other problems with the ice cores include meltwater moving through the ice; Bacteria in the ice releasing gases even in 500,000-year-old ice at great depth; and contamination and losses during drilling and core recovery process. Jaworowsk i wrote, | 0_0 |
This essay also illustrates that there are eminently qualified meteorologists of international stature, such as Dr. Raghavan, who are not asked to present their perspectives on climate issues. The article that he wrote, unfortunately, will not have wide dissemination. We need, however, to involve more of the climate sc... | 0_0 |
7. What does the record of past climates show about the relationship between changes in atmospheric CO2 levels and changes in global temperature? | 0_0 |
Convective systems are associated with surface faults and fractures that penetrate deep into the earth (1-2 miles) and tap reservoirs of super-heated water, thereby transmitting this heated water back to the surface. Their effect can melt glaciers (seeHagafellsjkull Glacier Iceland photo above), form hot springs, and i... | 0_0 |
Once again the Australian media spins normal climate variations as something caused by IPCC climate change. | 0_0 |
Appendix:Letter to Houston Chronicle ( December 11 ) in Response to Climategate Op-Ed | 0_0 |
Another area where Republicans could bring a positive, market-friendly agenda to the climate change debate involves adaptation, a subject treated like an unwanted step-child by Democrats and others fixated on a Kyoto-style approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. | 0_0 |
EPA's Missed Deadlines Causing Widespread Dysfunction | 0_0 |
The 2006 average temperatures of 32.5 C in Marble bar , Australia, was the coolest annual temperature in 92 years of records, beating 33.5 C in 1978 by a whole Celsius degree and being 3 Celsius degrees below the average! | 1_3 |
CONTIGUOUS US WINTER TEMPERATURES, 1998-2011 per NCDC | 0_0 |
Many policy makers and environmental activists assert that the rest of the country can simply replicate California's demand-side management (DSM) programs, which consist of an assortment of subsidy programs to retrofit buildings and subsidize energy-using equipment. California supposedly shows that we can have it alla ... | 0_0 |
UPDATE: 9:55 AM PDT 8/8/12 A graph of Palmer Drought Severity Index -vs- GISTEMP data has been added from Dr. Michaels. Looks like another GISS miss. | 0_0 |
And an extra bonus from the "weather is not climate" department January 29, 2010 at 39.9 degrees was ten degrees below normal and the second coldest on record. | 1_3 |
willing to act unilaterally in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind | 0_0 |
But for those who might argue that these data show us entering a long-term period of decline in global sea level, Willis cautions that sea level drops such as this one cannot last, and over the long-run, the trend remains solidly up. Water flows downhill, and the extra rain will eventually find its way back to the sea.... | 1_6 |
But even Democrats reportedly chafed at some of the practical impediments to holding Gore's extravaganza on the West Lawn. An all-day concert drawing huge crowds on the grounds of the Capitol, as opposed to a three-hour symphony performance there at night, could have posed formidable security challenges for those guard... | 0_0 |
+ Corrections: High(+0:20 +1.50) Low(+0:20 -1.00) | 0_0 |
40-50: School and doctor appointments | 0_0 |
role in nato's Operation Unified Protector in Libya substantially reduced the cost to the U.S. | 0_0 |
Renouncing Islam in the Sudan carries the death penalty. I don't know what the consequences are for painting over a concrete stain bearing the image of the Virgin Mary . | 0_0 |
needs to be assessed indicates they hadnt bothered to do it by thenand likely still havent. | 0_0 |
It is better to focus on the ever-widening discrepancy between predicted and observed warming rates. The IPCCs forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report backcasts the interval of 34 models global warming projections to 2005, since when the world should have been warming at a rate equivalent to 2.33 C/century. Instead, it has... | 1_4 |
The shorter political time horizon (the next election) is likely to yield too little attention to the adverse long-run effects of policy choices in this context, a carbon tax that is too high. The gerrymandering process ("wasting" the votes of the political opposition) is likely to result in less two-party competition ... | 0_0 |
But even when included, and through a statistical trick, weighting it many times more than other proxies, the composite series ???rolls over?? (a down tick in temperatures) after 1980 requiring the deletion (???hide the decline??) of the data past that point. See the discussion by Steve McIntyre here and the video by P... | 5_1 |
Peter J. Fontaine, Mann?s attorney, told The Yale Forum in an e-mail that he believes the press groups are ?flat wrong? in taking the side of what he called an ?industry shill? in this case: | 0_0 |
While the energy bill that passed Congress in July did not include exploration in ANWR, a provision to do that is being included in the budget reconciliation bill, which will be finalized this fall. | 0_0 |
But like I said, they havent even come close to proving, or even suggesting, that this drought had anything to do with global warming. | 1_7 |
One of the foremost authorities on polar bears, Canadian biologist, Dr. Mitchell Taylor, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. He said : Of the 13 populations of polar bears in Canada, 11 are stable or increasing in number. They are not going extinct, or even appear to be affected ... | 3_2 |
Is there a competition on to see who can be the most revolting climate change activist at the moment? | 0_0 |
Of course, some believe that CO2 forcings do not even exist (although I'm not one of them). Here I am simply trying to determine what might be concluded about climate sensitivity if we assume Hansen's forcings and the OHC increases are correct. As we will see, the large difference between forcing (0.8) and radiative im... | 0_0 |
CFACT is not alone in opposing the Obama Administration's attack on the provision of energy. Six unions are petitioning the Senate to hold hearings on the EPA coal plant rules. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and five other unions have sent a letter to top senators on the Senate Energy and Natural R... | 0_0 |
Q: You said you were going to tell us why the IPCC estimates of warming have been revised downwards. But I guess you didn't have time to. You showed the graph that they have changed since 1990, but you didn't mention why. And, I just wanted to I was just looking at the IPCC report and it says clearly that there is two ... | 0_0 |
That is one critical questionhow much warming can we expect from a given level of emissions? Equally critical, and perhaps equally difficult, is predicting what global emissions will be over the course of the next century or more, given the vast range of dubious assumptions that have to be made about levels of economic... | 5_1 |
Objection #2: The Atmosphere, which is cooler than the Earth Surface, cannot warm the Earth Surface. | 2_3 |
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