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Donald Rapp notes that the subtitle of the book was Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about El Nio and La Nia Thats the title of the post that introduces Who Turned on the Heat? The subtitle is actually The Unsuspected Global Warming Culprit, El Nio-Southern Oscillation. | 2_1 |
And even if cap-and-trade does what is intended, the reduction in CO2 emissions as a fraction of global CO2 emissions will moderate future warming by, at most, around one tenth of a degree C by late in this century. That is probably not even measurable. | 4_2 |
Dark and wet...like a mudflat on two sides of the station as seen in the Bing aerial view. | 0_0 |
China slows its runaway high-speed rail expansion: | 0_0 |
Climate models are unable to skillfully model clouds and thus albedo, and use a rough assumption of a 30% global average albedo. If we decrease albedo by 1% from 0.30 to 0.29, the greenhouse equation predicts an increase in surface temperature from 288.433 K to 289.457 K, an increase of 1.024 C warming, mathematically verifying what Dr. Roy Spencer writes in his book , | 5_1 |
James Taylor to Keynote Colorado Emerging Issues Forum | 0_0 |
They were built as the primary fulcrum structures within sprawling open air universities. At these ancient schools the brightest and the best of gifted children were taught the astronomical and navigational arts. The concept of a horizontal-top henge wall was for creating an artificial horizon, similar to what one would see from a ship on the vast featureless oceans. Students situated within the henge, primarily at its centre, could become very familiar with the star, planet, sun and moon rise and set positions or cycles, by using the top of the henge embankments as the target region for 360-degree observation onto the ever moving and changing stellar display. This is consistent with what Julius Caesar said concerning the great schools of Britain run by the Druids of his time. | 0_0 |
With sufficient supplies of the first two key ingredients, depending on its location on earth, any kind of tree will grow at a rate determined by its ability to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and convert the suns radiation via the photosynthesis process to wood. The higher the level of CO2 in the air, the faster it will grow. | 3_3 |
If the model projections for the last two decades are compared to the temperature trends of the lower atmosphere as measured by satellites and balloons, then the model projections must be lowered by an even larger factor. | 5_1 |
This article is part of the Special Issue on "A Framework for the Development of New Socio-economic Scenarios for Climate Change Research" edited by Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Robert Lempert, and Anthony Janetos. | 0_0 |
I started bringing up the idea that we are doing something new to the planet, that the burden of evidence is on those who disturb natural systems, that Mother Nature knows more than he will ever know, not the other way around. But it was like talking to a defense lawyer sophistry, and absence of convergence to truth. | 0_0 |
A novel aspect of the approach is that it uses decision analysis as a framework for characterizing the climate future, and consequently, climate projections, in terms of their position relative to decision thresholds. In doing so, it uses stochastic analysis for risk identification and uses GCM projections for risk estimation , assigning probabilities to hazards, thus linking the two methods. | 0_0 |
view of 21st-century realities. He wants to know whether they could "bring about a new American relationship with the world, one that was less | 0_0 |
John: Only the feds Brian. Though I hear the New South Wales guys reckon it could be a good idea as well. Kevin might stick around to run a garage sale and hand over the keys. The best thing we can do for the country Brian. | 0_0 |
The Economic Effects of Freeing Up America's Resources | 0_0 |
Yet while the administration took the correct steps in suggesting changes to the report, it did not respond well to the communications challenge. Part of the reason why the environmental lobby was able to shout so loudly is that the administration did not issue a comprehensive science-based defense of its actions. The White House could do that by ordering agencies to cease dissemination of discredited reports and listing the reasons they are not a sound basis for policy decisions. The administration should state clearly that tackling junk science is not censoring science, but championing it. | 0_0 |
Unfortunately, of course, the wind does not always blow. Even based on average demand of 52GW , we would need 30GW of back up capacity for when there is no, or little, wind output. If we need back up during winter peak demand, we would be looking at double this figure. | 4_4 |
Learn more:President Obama's Clean Power Plan: All cost, no benefit | 0_0 |
With that prelude, 12-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez and his 9-year-old brother Itzcuauhtli launched into an anti-fracking rap song for Evergreen Middle School students whose teacher had invited them to travel 40 miles from their home in "the People's Republic of Boulder," Colorado. The song was well rehearsed, spirited, clever and no doubt assisted by their mother, the founder and executive director of Earth Guardians, and maybe even by Boulder's former mayor, an EG advisor. | 0_0 |
It is as if, after trying to eliminate all roads in order to protect wildlife, the Obama administration suddenly defended the idea because it would reduce motorcycle deaths. Well yes, eliminating all roads might reduce motorcycle deaths. But we already have motorcycle safety policies. And if we were really concerned, we could ban motorcycles. It's no way to sell a destroy-all-roads policy. | 0_0 |
Carlin emphasizes that responsible policies must be based upon reproducible and verifiable scientific methods and realistic cost-benefit analyses. As he notes, "The problem with the current EPA structure is that it is overly responsive to political pressure from the party/president in power or from public fads rather than to careful science and economics." | 0_0 |
Of course, is a sdan development p good and evil. Overfishing of the seas is a major concern, and even on land has space for other living beings diminished. It is however VRT to name that as more and more people live in towns s has space for other beings not fallen fully as much as one might have feared. | 0_0 |
The reductions in coal generation, ascendancy of gas, influx of renewables, expansion of CHP and other distributed power forms, adoption of demand-side efficiency technologies, rise of dispatchable demand response, and deployment of advanced vehicles are all contributing to the decline in carbon emissions from the energy sector (including transport), which peaked in 2007 at 6.02Gt and have dropped by an estimated 13% since. | 0_0 |
Johannessen and colleagues analysed satellite data on the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2003. They found an increase of 6.4 0.2 centimetres per year in the vast interior areas above 1500 metres, in contrast to previous reports of high-elevation balance. Below 1500 metres, the elevation-change rate is -2.0 0.9 cm/year. | 1_1 |
They point back to their 1989 manifesto, "The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency." Democrats suffered, they argued, from mistaken beliefs that they could win the presidency by some combination of liberal orthodoxy and mobilizing core constituencies. | 0_0 |
Einsteins theory did state that the universe could not be static, that it must be expanding or contracting. It is very doubtful that he could accept the outer limits of this possible expansion to be approaching the velocity of light. If you do accept the expanding Big Bang theory, then you must also recognize that the distant light indicates the possible position at the distant time of that lights origin. Light with its position distorted by half the speed of light, would have then originated at half the projected distance. All projections from data that is this distorted should be viewed as very suspect. | 0_0 |
Peter Berkowitz tackles Bush Derangement Syndrome for the WSJ; | 0_0 |
Secondly, it misunderstands the nature of public goods problems, in which players benefit by avoiding the costs of providing the good rather than leaping headlong into them. When we offer to reduce our carbon emissions, pay for green research, or otherwise make some sacrifice for the global environment, we are merely generating a benefit for the rest of the world to free-ride off of, bearing the weight of having three men do the work of two so that others will not have to make the same effort. | 0_0 |
Further to this, I fail to see why people are so closed-minded towards a party that: led on preventing disastrous intervention in Syria and is now calling for the government to accept Syrian refugees, that wants no tax on minimum wage, that doesnt believe we should be burdening students with enormous debts. And sure, our 2010 manifesto was drivel, but when its written by an ex-Conservative (who has now defected back), what can we expect? UKIP are a libertarian, common sense party. Some polls have us at double the figure the Liberal Democrats are polling nationally, and over the coming years the party will continue going from strength to strength. | 0_0 |
Isakson's amendment, backed strongly by the real estate lobby, would add to taxpayer risk by requiring the FHA to insure loans with a higher debt-to-income ratio based on "estimated energy savings." It would also allow "estimated energy savings" to be added to the appraisal of the home, creating bigger loans for taxpayers to subsidize. | 0_0 |
The NOAA Administrator, in making the appointmentof Tom Karl, has apparently notlearned that the climate science community has a broader view of the issues and less confidence in the skill of the multi-decadal global and regional climate predictions than she does. Byselecting Tom Karl, she has assuredthat this narrow viewpoint will be perpetuated within the new National Climate Service. | 0_0 |
Mrner and Parker conclude that the Fremantle tide gauge is likely to include a local subsidence factor of about 1.4 mm/year so there is not much left for sea level rise. They claim virtually stable conditions over the last 60 years and full stability over the last 14 years, implying there are no traces of any present day acceleration. | 1_6 |
Siegel, Jeremy J., The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Stock Market, 2nd ed., Library of Economics and Liberty, http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/StockMarket.html (accessed February 26, 2014). | 0_0 |
According to Goklany's careful empirical analysis, had the Clean Air Act of 1970 not been adopted and emission trends from 1950 to 1970 been allowed to continue through 1990, "NOx emissions would have been 60 percent higher than "actual' 1990 emissions; more importantly, PM-10 emissions would have been lower and SO2 emissions would have been only 5 percent higher."9 Even this gives the CCA too much credit, Goklany concludes, since "if anything, the underlying forces driving those improvements -- greater knowledge, greater wealth, and less economic dependence upon traditional polluting sectors -- were only gathering strength."10 | 0_0 |
In light of these several findings, it can readily be understood that the host of intractable problems associated with large-scale bioenergy production will in all likelihood prevent their full potential from ever being realized. Strong competing interests for finite land and water resources simply will not allow it to happen. And humanity thus needs to realize that we can't ride a hobbled bioenergy horse into the future and expect to prosper. | 4_4 |
Truth n 16 The trace gases absorb the radiation from the surface and radiate at the temperature of the air, which is at some height, most of the time slightly lower that of the surface. The trace-gases cannot ??? heat the surface ???, according to the second principle of thermodynamics which prohibits heat transfer from a cooler body to a warmer body. | 2_3 |