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"The discussion is far from over. The true mind of science remains open to new data and alternative explanations. Whether and how much of the approximately 1/2 degree C of warming which occurred in the latter half of the 20th century is due to human industry has not been conclusively established. Neither have any of the incredibly expensive ""solutions"" proposed to address any global warming been shown to be meaningfully effective or worth their tremendous cost.",5_1
NASA's James Hansen claims extreme weather events would not have happened if CO2 had remained at its pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million,0_0
"Figure 1. Lake Baikal paleoclimate record from the past 800,000 years. Warmer conditions are towards the right, cooler ones towards the left (from Mackay, 2007).",0_0
"Nuccitellis answer to this unexceptionable and temperately-expressed statement is that sea level rises chiefly through thermal expansion and melting land ice, so it is all our fault. However, it ought to have been obvious even to Nuccitelli thermal expansion and land-ice melt happen whether Man or nature is the cause.",2_1
It makes you wonder what created all that CO2 millions of years ago.,2_1
The EPAs Greenhouse Gas Inventory acknowledged this year that methane emissions from natural gas production have fallen 35% since 2007. Thats despite a 22% increase in gas production over the same period. The EPA last year found that methane emissions from hydraulically fractured gas wells had fallen 73% from 2011 to 2013. Overall methane emissions are 17% lower than in 1990.,0_0
"?Lukewarmers? are those scientists (and others) who believe the balance of evidence is middling between ?climate alarmists? (who tend to think that the global temperature rise will lie in, or even exceed, the upper half the IPCC?s 1.1 C?6.4 C range of projected temperature rise this century) and ultraskeptics, or ?flatliners? (who tend to think that the addition of human-generated carbon dioxide has virtually no impact on global temperatures).",0_0
"People concerned that manmade greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), may be causing dangerous climate change worry such a change may disrupt the hydrosphere, which comprises all of the water on Earth and in its atmosphere. This disruption, they argue, would lead to increased rainfall and erratic weather patterns that would greatly increase sea level and produce potentially devastating consequences.A report from the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an independent group of some 50 scientists from 15 countries, titled Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science, summarizes a large body of research disputing these claims and finds the hydrosphere has exhibited only mild volatility over the past century in concert with natural climate cycles and with no correlation to human CO2 emissions.The data show short-term precipitation volatility is not correlated with either CO2 emissions or general climate warming. For example, monsoon intensity displayed no increase later in the century despite increased CO2 emissions, but instead was correlated with solar activity.In addition, monsoons were generally more intensive during the Little Ice Age (LIA) than the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), which runs directly contrary to the alarmist claims. On the other end of the volatility spectrum, CCR-II disputes the strength of the commonly cited connection between global warming and droughts, as evidenced by the similar rates of drought occurrence in the LIA and MWP.As with precipitation, CCR-II finds no significant connection between sea level or ocean temperature and human CO2 emissions. Sea level is determined by a multitude of factors, and CO2-induced global warming is a minor one. Ocean temperatures have remained virtually unchanged for nine years, according to data of the Argo buoy network.CCR-II found numerous problems with the consensus view of sea-level change. The global sea level has increased by an average of only 12 mm annually over the century, with a wide range of intra-year volatility between +5mm and -5mm away from the mean. Supposed instances of environmental harm caused by sea-level rises, such as coral reef destruction, are often the result of unaccounted alternative factors.Concern over manmade greenhouse gas emissions has been the impetus for many destructive public policies, including renewable portfolio standards, alternative energy subsidies, and high gasoline taxes. Yet, despite ever-increasing levels of CO2 emissions, scientists have been unable to demonstrate a connection to its alleged effects, such as hydrosphere alteration, over the previous century. CCR-II's findings demonstrate precipitation and ocean activity have little to no connection to human CO2 emissions. Therefore, energy production, the lifeblood of the global economy, should not be hindered by state intervention to reduce CO2 emissions.The above introduction was based on text from Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science and its Summary for Policymakers, published by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).The following documents provide additional information about the hydrosphere and oceans. Chapter 6 of Climate Change Reconsidered IIhttp://heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-II/Chapter-6-Hydrosphere-Oceans.pdfIn Chapter Six of Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science, Willem de Lange and Robert M. Carter find little evidence for an overall increase in global precipitation during the twentieth century independent of natural multidecadal climate rhythms. Summary for Policymakers of Climate Change Reconsidered IIhttp://heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-II/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdfThe IPCC claims to know, apparently with rising certainty over time, that ""most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations"" (IPCC AR4 SPM, p. 10). This Summary for Policymakers summarizes and interprets Climate Change Reconsidered II, a major scientific report that refutes this claim. More IPCC Misdirection: Its Dodgy Sea Level-Rise Assessmenthttp://www.cato.org/blog/more-ipcc-misdirection-its-dodgy-sea-level-rise-assessmentPatrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger of the Cato Institute criticize the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's analysis of sea-level changes in a September 24, 2013 blog post. The authors point out the IPCC cherry-picks data clumps that coincide with their conclusions, while ignoring broader data that contradict them. For instance, the IPCC attributes the recent abnormally high increases in sea level to a new long-term trend, even though the rate of increase has already begun to decline to normal levels, thereby indicating this period was just another short-term cyclical increase. Precipitation Measurements and Trends in the Twentieth Century http://heartland.org/policy-documents/precipitation-measurements-and-trends-twentieth-centuryA research paper published in the International Journal of Climatology in 2002 presents the trends in precipitation over the last century. Global precipitation increased by only 9 mm per year over the century, despite enormous short-term volatility of up to 40mm. Short-term variability can be attributed to natural climate cycles, including reoccurring ENSOs, Arctic Oscillation, and Antarctic Oscillation. The authors admit global precipitation measurement is still primitive and not wholly reliable. Little Change in Global Drought Over the Past 60 Yearshttp://heartland.org/policy-documents/little-change-global-drought-over-past-60-yearsIn this paper published in 2012 in Nature, Justin Sheffield, Eric F. Wood, and Michael L. Roderick cast doubt on the supposed connection between global warming and the frequency of droughts over the past 60 years. The standard analysis used to estimate global moisture levels is highly flawed and underestimates moisture levels, they note. In reality, global moisture levels have barely changed, and by extension, theories that blame hydrosphere changes on global warming are also flawed. Research Explores Hidden Benefits of Intensive Rainfall in East Africahttp://phys.org/news/2012-11-explores-hidden-benefits-intensive-rainfall.htmlMaggie Clune looks at a new study published in 2012 in Nature Climate Change, which demonstrates some benefits of increased rainfall. Generally, climate scientists tend to focus on only the negative effects of climate change while ignoring the positive results it produces. One of these is that increased rainfall replenishes freshwater sources more often. This makes underwater aquifers, rivers, streams, etc. more bountiful, especially in technologically less-developed regions that are heavily dependent upon natural water sources, such as Central Africa. Indian Monsoon Variability in a Global Warming Scenariohttp://heartland.org/policy-documents/indian-monsoon-variability-global-warming-scenarioA paper published in 2003 in Natural Hazards applies to real historical data the IPCC's theory that global warming increases monsoon intensity. The researchers determined there is no correlation between monsoon intensity and global warming. Monsoon strength naturally oscillates along decade-long time intervals regardless of carbon production. Furthermore, increased global temperatures have no effect on intra-cycle variability. Nothing in this Research & Commentary is intended to influence the passage of legislation, and it does not necessarily represent the views of The Heartland Institute. For further information on this and other topics, visit the Environment & Climate News Web site at http://news.heartland.org/energy-and-environment, The Heartland Institute's Web site at http://www.heartland.org, and PolicyBot, Heartland's free online research database, at www.policybot.org.If you have any questions about this issue or The Heartland Institute, or would like a scientist to testify in your state, contact Heartland Institute Policy Analyst Taylor Smith at tsmith@heartland.org or 312/377-4000.",1_7
"So, given the past trend, and the strength of the theory underlying the theory of AGW, warming is likely to resume. When this occurs, the central tendencies for all data sets should turn positive.",0_0
"To the north, a recent earthquake along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Rift System released a 1,000-mile-long pulse of methane into the overlying ocean. Remote-sensing NASA satellites measured this gas release once it vertically escaped through the ocean into the atmosphere. This massive gas release is compelling evidence that known Deep Ocean hydrothermal vents along this segment of the rift have become active.",0_0
"The most impressive thing about this summer's vaunted droughtcalled an ""ultra-drought"" by CBS icon Dan Ratheris that it wasn't one. Whereas Rather called this a ""summer to survive"" in the Midwest, it actually looked more like a summer to grow.Illinois experienced what is at least its third-wettest June (records go back to 1895). Toward the end of June, the entire state of Illinois, 90 percent of Missouri and Wisconsin, and half of Iowa were reporting unusually moist conditions. We think that qualifies as the ""Midwest.""But why should we be surprised by this spate of climate hyperbole? That kind of drought hype is about as repetitive as Vice President Al Gore saying ""risky."" Last summer, for example, we were bombarded with the same story, even though less of the country than normal was experiencing a significant moisture shortage. Both the ostensible drought and forecasts of more of the same were based upon the appearance of La Nia (unusually cold) conditions in the tropical Pacific.Going back just another year, recall the agricultural disasters predicted because of El Nio, the warm phase of this common Pacific oscillation. One major network featured brown cornstalks and a cloud of dust in August. That was in Texas, where corn is normally brown in August, given that it's planted early in the year. As for the dust, it was kicked up by a harvester plucking fat ears.The beating goes on and on. And what we find most interesting is that people continue to eat. Well and cheaply, we might add. What gives?Let's stipulate that supply and demand determine price. For food, the latter is increasing because there is a larger number of demanding mouths to feed. Everything else being equal, the price of food should increase slightly as a result of that. But adding in the effect of the 2000 drought, the 1999 drought, the 1998 drought, and so forth should be as calamitous as the Network News.In an attempt to verify all these terrible stories, we plotted out the price of corn in dollars per bushel, allowing for inflation. What is immediately obvious is that the price of corn is lower than it has ever been. Despite all the weather gloom and doom, as well as the population increase, the relative supply of the most important crop produced by the most important agricultural nation in history must be increasing.Our greener pals keep blaming us for the fact that Americans just don't seem to care about global warming. But perhaps they ought to look in the mirror. Constantly hawking weather disasters has a way of losing its credibility in the face of agricultural abundance.It is absurd to conflate warming with food shortages. The corn yield history was virtually steady for the first half of the twentieth century, followed by a dramatic rise in the second half. Today, one acre of land produces almost four times as much corn as it did 100 years ago.During that same time, U.S. temperatures varied considerably from year to year and decade to decade. Obviously, there is little if any correspondence between the nation's temperatures and its crop yields.What warming the United States has seen in the last three decades has been primarily in winter and, within that season, largely confined to the coldest air massesa prediction from greenhouse theory that the climate Cassandras rarely tout. A temperature change of this sort is beneficial for crops because it lengthens their growing season.Another benefit for crop production is the ever-increasing atmospheric level of carbon dioxide. We can certainly assert with confidence that the presence of additional carbon dioxide is responsible for about 10 percent of this abundant harvest.The evidence is in. Today's climate is a boon to agricultureno matter what you may hear on the evening news.ReferencesMichaels, P.J., et al., 2000. Observed warming in cold anticyclones. Climate Research, 14, 106.National Agricultural Statistics Service, www.usda.gov/nass.",3_3
"The Kyoto Protocol, even if implemented by all industrialized countries, including the United States, would only barely slow the increase in GHG concentrations.Actually reducing GHG concentrations below todays levels (~385 ppm) may well exceed human capability in this century. Even outright de-industrialization of the United States might not be enough to lower GHG levels, since most emissions growth in the 21st century is projected to occur in developing countries .",4_2
"When its all said and done, the power plant will supply 3,000 homes with heating and 1,000 of those with electricity, cutting 6,600 tons of CO2 per year",0_0
"Is it possible That the widely-used CRUT SST temperature data sets HAS BEEN understating Recent warming? In dont knowIm mystified. Maybe Frank, Chelle, Phil Jones, or some enterprising bloggers out there can figure this one out.Ive got to go hang some plywood.",0_0
"When confronted with the fiery question of where evidence lies of an impact that only occurred some 12,800 years ago, barely time for a deep breath geologically, the Younger Dryas Impact proponents respond with an extremely weak mumbling about air blasts, asteroid clusters and ice sheet impacts that left no evidence of a large chunk(s) of space debris hitting the Earth. They point out that the Tunguska Impact (called an impact even though it left no crater) was an air-blast at an altitude of 3-6 miles (5-10 km) above Siberia that yielded the equivalent of 3-30 megatons of TNT in explosive force. The skeptics counter with Meteor Crater in Arizona, a beautiful little 1,200 ft (4,000 m) diameter hole 570 ft (170 m) deep made by a meteorite a mere 54 yds (50 m) in diameter that released 10 megatons of energy upon impact. They reasonably expect that a piece or pieces of space debris able to spread ejecta over half of the northern hemisphere, cause a 1,300 year halt in global warming and lead to the extinction of numerous species that had survived for hundreds of thousands of years had to leave some evidence of its arrival behind. The YD proponents then countered with the fact that the northern half of North America was covered with ice sheets and an impact on a 1 to 2 mile thick layer of ice may have mitigated the expected formation of a crater.",0_0
"UAH monitor temperatures from 60N to 85N in the Arctic, and 60S to 85S in the Antarctic. While not complete, these records, of course, go much closer to the poles, and in a much more comprehensive fashion, than surface temperatures do. Figure 1 shows the UAH data, which is the anomaly from the 1981-2010 baseline, as a 12 month running average. This helps to smooth out the monthly and seasonal fluctuations and make the trend much clearer to see.",0_0
Man-made global warming? No. Mann-made global warming? Yes.,5_2
"According to the Centre's scientists, ""As the world warms, on average, it is getting wetter rainfall, on average, is increasing."" They also added, ""Contrary to widespread expectations, potential evaporation from the soil and land-based water bodies like lakes is decreasing in most places. This is because the world is cloudier than it used to be.""",0_0
"Melting of polar ice sheets has added 11mm to global sea levels over the past two decades, according to the most definitive assessment so far.",0_0
"The serious money has always flowed to alarmists, guilt-ridden environmentalists, and control-seeking regulators, whom the world's taxpayers are generously and unwittingly funding. That's also the real meaning of the ""Green"" movement and ""Green"" energy.",5_2
"Well, a year later, we have an interesting opposite scenario with a deep arctic low bringing snow to the arctic and Greenland in late July.",1_1
"British economist Sir Nicholas Stern recently made international headlines with a report claiming the debate is over on climate change and predicting dire economic effects. But on the heels of that report came a scathing article in London's Sunday Telegraph by renowned journalist Christopher Monckton that debunks this so-called scientific consensus. He notes that the United Nation's main report on global warming purposely censored data about a Medieval Warm Period that saw global temperatures 3 degrees Celsius warmer than now. He further states that the famous hockey stick graph, which allegedly shows a major recent spike, has been thoroughly discredited. Apparently, there's little harmony in Britain over this continuing controversy.",5_1
"""Many skeptics have had their doubts about the climate data championed by the IPCC and the CRU, but one of them, Canadian Steve McIntyre a retired mathematician and policy analyst, decided to do something about it.""Kenneth P. Green",5_1
"The Golden State already has some expensive GHG reduction requirements. For example, the California Air Resources Board predicts its carbon dioxide limits for new automobiles will add $1,000 to the cost of a car. Californians must get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2017, raising the costs of power production. If approved, the Governor's ""million solar roofs"" program will stick the state's electricity ratepayers with a surcharge to subsidize solar electricity systems.",4_1
"Unfortunately, the article is just the latest in a very long line of examples of ABCs climate groupthink, where the utterances of climate scientists are beyond reproach and questioning of the consensus is frowned upon.That is not how science works: the motto, which the ABC, our taxpayer-funded and supposedly impartial national broadcaster, would do well to remember, is question everything.",5_2
"Mr. Lazear has fallen for the greatest lie ever; the assertion that greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, are warming the Earth. The hoaxers are calling the past seventeen years ""a pause"" in warming, but it is actually an indicator that the Earth is on the cusp of the next ice age. The period in between ice ages is calculated at 11,500 years and we are at the end of the current interglacial period.",1_4
"Yes, as Climate Hustle makes clear, there are dissenting scientistsbut they are marginalized, even called ""kooks."" If they speak out, they are insulted, ignored, ridiculed, ostracized, called heretics, hurt professionally, and even terminated for divergent views. This is not the scientific method.",5_1
"During Boston's record-breaking snowfall this past winter, officials used large empty parking lots that were devoted for one thing: snow piles. Officials called them ""snow farms"" and they rose to heights unseen in modern history. And now, in the sweltering heat of summer, one is still sitting in South Boston , dripping away and revealing a vast wasteland of trash underneath. When WBZ (CBS News) Boston went to check on the man-made glacier, what they found in that still-melting pile of snow was a bit of a shocker: a baby stroller, lottery tickets, part of a bicycle, laundry baskets, hubcaps, and more.",1_3
Why didnt CRU use this dataset in Briffa et al 2013 instead of the inadequately replicated dataset that it reported on? Did CRU attempt to obtain access to this data and receive a rejection? And why didnt CRU report the existence of Shiyatovs crossdated dataset in its review of previous work at Polar Urals?,5_2
"The ocean absorbs one-third of the worlds carbon dioxide emissions, Ms. Jordan said, explaining that it upsets the food chain. When you turn on your car, it affects them.",0_0
Met Office Predicted A Warm Winter. Cheers Guys,5_2
"In this policy analysis, Donn Dears writes that the fear of climate change has led the United Nations and European Union to insist that the United States cut its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 80% so that worldwide emissions can be cut by around 50%, thereby limiting the level of CO2 in the atmosphere to a level some scientists believe will keep climate change in check. Congress is considering a cap & trade program for CO2 emissions rather than carbon taxes for achieving the required 80% reduction. The Presidential candidates all endorse cap & trade as a remedy to combat global warming.",0_0
Emission Scenarios & Recent Global Warming Projections,0_0
"Here is a formidable source of data on climate change, courtesy of prof. Lindzen (MIT) from a CEI presentation a couple of weeks ago. Once more, he reminds us that many statements bandied about and accepted as gospel truths are in fact serious distortions and sometimes outright contrary even to authorities such as the IPCC.",5_2
"Given the myriad scientific holes in the manmade global warming hypothesis and allowing for the inevitable future discoveries about climate, it seems quite absurd for Congress to proceed on global warming as if, in Al Gore's words, ""There is no longer any serious debate over the basic points that make up the consensus on global warming.""",5_1
"Ethanol and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Though ethanol is often pitched as a good solution to climate change because it simply recirculates carbon in the atmosphere, there is more than one kind of greenhouse gas to consider. Ethanol, blended with gasoline, actually turns out to increase the formation of potent greenhouse gases more than gasoline does by itself. As far back as 1997, the U.S. Government Accountability Office determined that the ethanol production process produces",0_0
"In response, CEI filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents related to the video, its production at taxpayer expense, and OSTP's rejection of its correction request. Despite having earlier claimed that the video was just Holdren's personal opinion, not the agency's, OSTP withheld portions of emails about it as privileged ""agency records."" It also refused to produce drafts of its letter rejecting CEI's request for correction. It withheld two drafts even though they had been shared with an outside professor (and initially even concealed their very existence), even though sharing a document with someone outside an agency usually waives any privilege to keep it secret.",5_2
"Steve McIntyre?s latest post at Climate Audit includes the extraordinary revelation that Michael Mann?s latest submission to the courts regarding his libel suit includes a doctored quote. The offending words purport to be an excerpt from the Russell inquiry report, but, demonstrating a startling disregard for the court, the excerpt has been altered to make it look as if Mann had been exonerated by Russell. However, this has been done so badly as to make the alteration fairly obvious.",5_2
"Warming is not the only sign of change we are observing in Australias climate. Other changes include a marked decline in rainfall in the south-west and parts of south-east Australia, and recent reductions in rainfall through the eastern states. At the same time, rainfall in the arid interior and north-west has increased dramatically, in some places nearly doubling during the past 50 years.",0_0
"Now, the average of this system, the whole atmosphere and surface included together, is what should have the global average temperature of -18 degrees C, and it does, because the temperature goes from warm (+15 degrees C) at the bottom of the atmosphere, to cold (-70 degrees C) at the top of the atmosphere, and measured from space it is -18 degrees C on average. The bottom of the atmosphere is warmest because that is where the Sun does the real-time physical heating in the first place. The temperature decreases with altitude because the heat dissipates outwards from the ground and cools down, and also because of the natural adiabatic gradient. The amount of water vapour in the air-column reduces the adiabatic gradient and it also reduces night-time cooling, because of latent heat which is trapped and then released by the H2O molecules. -And to be sure, those H2O molecules wouldnt be able to get into the air-column if sunshine was freezing cold at -18 degrees C!- Finally, the natural existence of the adiabatic gradient (that is, the fact that the air has to cool with altitude), means that the bottom of the atmosphere must be warmer than top and therefore the bottom must also be warmer than the average. If the average has to be -18 degrees C, then this average has to be found between the bottom (warmest) and the top (coldest), and the bottom will naturally be warmer than that average. Its all totally sensible when you do the physics correctly, and no greenhouse effect is needed to be invented.",2_1
"Similarly, those who have, at one time or another, actually had a fire hose in their hands, breathed smoke up their nostrils, felt the enormous radiant heat of fire in long unburnt fuel, heard the roar, and felt the ground shake as a bushfire goes its merry way, may be perturbed at statements by some studious ecologists, apparently supported by statistical evidence, that deliberate, mild burning in cooler weather, to mitigate uncontrollable holocaust bushfires in hot, windy weather, is ineffectual, and harmful to the bush.",0_0
"In addition the professor said: ?Ending human population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for preventing catastrophic global climate change. Indeed, significantly reducing current human numbers (emphasis added) may be necessary in order to do so.?",0_0
"Between 2000 and 2005, drought conditions (combined with greatly increased water usage in Arizona, California, Nevada and Colorado) caused Lake Powell levels to drop nearly 120 feet. This prompted a considerable consensus of global warming hysteria.",5_2
"Former Energy Department official and CAP Senior Fellow Joseph Romm suggests that recent 90-degree weather in Minnesota could have critically weakened the bridge, causing it to collapse. Even if Mr. Romm were correct about global warming contributing to the failure of critical infrastructure, this leads us to an even more pressing question: who built all the freeway overpasses in Phoenix? What about the parking structures at McCarran Airport? Wither the above ground facilities at Groom Lake? If several days of summer weather in the mid-90s can cause a massive steel and concrete structure to collapse, somebody better send a memo the those crazy architects in Dubai.",0_0
"It should also be noted that, if the Carbon Plans are followed through, demand for electricity will increase as transport and domestic heating are decarbonised. The Committee on Climate Change have estimated that demand could increase by 30% by 2030 as a result. This would push peak demand up to 80GW. With an appropriate safety margin, we would then be looking at, say, 90GW.",4_1
Thats odd. The paper thats the subject of the press release doesnt come to the conclusion that global warming is causing the migratory practices of the studied sea birds.,0_0
It seems they found out what the environmental changes taking place in the south. are.,0_0
"Higher emissions from China and other big emerging economies, plus the failure of rich countries to slash emissions, could pump greenhouse gases to levels which scientists say augur a dangerous rise in average global temperatures by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F).",0_0
"John A. Simpson, at the University of Chicago, invented and developed the neutron monitor over the years 1948-50 and found that the Earths magnetic field could be used as a spectrometer to allow measurements of the cosmic ray spectrum down to low primary energies. The magnetic latitude of a particular neutron monitor determines the lowest magnetic rigidity of a primary that can reach the monitor, the so-called cut-off rigidity. The stations altitude determines the amount of absorbing atmosphere above the station and hence the amount of absorption of the secondary cosmic rays (the higher the station, the higher the counting rate). By using a combination of lead (to produce local interactions), paraffin or polyethylene (to moderate or slow down the neutron component) and multiple slow-neutron counters, Simpson greatly increased the counting rate in his monitor design.",0_0
"Are climate scientists doom-mongering? Bulk of research on impacts of ocean acidification is FLAWED, new study finds",3_2
"It's remarkable that she doesn't even dare to consider the correct explanation - namely one that the data she has collected are actually real rather than sequences of errors of measurements or results of a world-wide conspiracy. Men are statistically better physicists, better physics teachers, better actors, and - yes - better judges of the quality of their teachers, too - and her research is just another way to see that it is so.",0_0
14. Will global warming produce a rise in sea level and cause major flooding?,0_0
"Reality may be a bit simpler, or much more complicated. But the reason this is all so important is that if there is no good explanation for the lack of warming, then an increasingly viable alternative is that we have overestimated the gross sensitivity of temperature to carbon dioxide in our computer models.",5_1
And they really like a carbon dioxide-rich diet...,0_0
A new study suggests that a high-fat diet increases a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.,0_0
Constructor theory: Deutsch and Marletto are just vacuously bulliting,0_0
"The environmental movement has become a cesspool of hate, where hack journalists and bureaucrats can openly fantasize about violently punishing their political adversaries, and where scientists compromised by a poisonous ideology lie and steal to discredit their intellectual opponents.",5_2
"Of relevance to the previous thread on epistemology of disagreement, it seems that Morano et al. have taken the IPCC strategy of consensus and letters to Congress and turned it around on the IPCC with dissent and a large number of signatories that seem credible, at least on the surface, in terms of academic qualifications etc. Morano is a very clever politician, he is attempting to beat the IPCC at their own game.",0_0
"* Unlike, say, concentrated solar power produced by BrightSource Energy, which California utilities are forced to purchase in order to comply with a Soviet-style green energy production quota enacted by the state legislature.",4_1
"Nonetheless, it is refreshing to see the much-needed start of amovement away from the top-down IPCC approach of assessingrisks to key resources, which, as we have shown in our papers and in my weblog posts, is a fundamentally flawed approach.",0_0
"The claim that 20-30% of the Earths species are at risk of extinction has been a hallmark of Pachauris speeches . . . depends almost entirely on a single, highly questionable piece of research. . . five out of 10 of this chapters most senior personnel have a formal documented link to the World Wildlife Fund. There is no way to know which sections of this IPCC chapter represent the opinions of scientists whove jumped into bed with the WWF and which sections are . . . scientifically sound.",5_2
"Let's review. The Obama administration is perpetuating a pernicious legal double standard with regard to federal wildlife laws. It prosecutes industries that produce ""dirty"" energy and exempts those that claim to produce ""clean"" energy. Furthermore, it's giving the wind industry a get-out-of-jail-free card so that if it kills some of our most-endangered species, such as the California condor, it will not face prosecution. The wind industry is further expanding its operations onto public land in both California and Wyoming. And the American Wind Energy Association has recently said that its main goal is to obtain a multi-year extension of the production tax credit, the lucrative subsidy that was extended for one year back in January. In other words, despite some two decades of subsidies, the wind lobby claims it still needs public money to be viable.",4_1
"where H.is the heat content of the land-ocean-atmosphere system . Equation 1-1 describes the change in the heat content where f is the radiative forcing at the tropopause, T is the change in surface temperature in response to a change in heat content, and is the climate feedback parameter (Schneider and Dickinson, 1974), also known as the climate sensitivity parameter, which denotes the rate at which the climate system returns the added forcing to space as infrared radiation or as reflected solar radiation (by changes in clouds, ice and snow, etc.).?",0_0
"Under this heading, were back to discussing the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature data with its trend intact. A preliminary note: It is not by coincidence that global sea surface temperatures warm in response to an El Nio. The coupled ocean-atmosphere processes that cause this have been known for decades.",0_0
"That it was fairly good for preventing colds I knew, but now apparently garlic is the way to prevent global warming.",0_0
"The Solomon Island / New Guinea heating source point is fixed / non-moving. Fixed heating source points are associated with fixed geological features such as volcanoes, and not with ever moving atmospheric heat sources. If atmospheric global warming caused the warmed Pacific Ocean seawater as NASA contends, it would not occur in the exact same location for 15 years. Atmospheric and ocean currents are too variable and strong to have deposited this massive heat pulse in the exact same location for 15 years.",0_0
"Many climate scientists and environmentalists agree with Morano's description of climate complexity, but reject his denials of global warming as a problem.",0_0
"The most precise records of global temperature began in 1979, when continuous satellite observations started recording temperatures at different heights in the atmosphere. The globally averaged temperatures, derived from the satellites and balloons, of the layer of the atmosphere from the surface to a height of a few kilometers do not show the increasing warming trend over the last twenty years expected by the computer model projections of the effects of added CO2 in the air (see Figure 2).",5_1
"Fresh doubt has been cast on evidence for global warming following the discovery that a key method of measuring temperature change has exaggerated the warming rate by almost 40 percent. Studies of temperature records dating back more than a century have seemed to indicate a rise in global temperature of around 0.5C, with much of it occurring since the late 1970s. This has led many scientists to conclude global warming is under way, with the finger of blame usually pointed at man-made emissions of such greenhouse gases as carbon dioxide.Now an international team of scientists, including researchers from the Met Office in Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom, has found serious discrepancies in the temperature measurements, suggesting that the amount of global warming is much less than previously believed.Measuring water, not airThe concern focuses on the temperature of the atmosphere over the oceans, which cover almost three-quarters of the Earth's surface. While scientists use standard weather station instruments to detect warming on land, they have been forced to rely on the crews of ships to make measurements over the vast ocean regions.Crews have taken the temperature by dipping buckets into the sea or using water flowing into the engine intakes. Scientists have assumed there is a simple link between the temperature of seawater and that of the air above it.However, after analyzing years of data from scientific buoys in the Pacific that measure sea and air temperatures simultaneously, the team has found no evidence of a simple link. Instead, the seawater measurements have exaggerated the amount of global warming over the seas, with the real temperature having risen less than half as fast during the 1970s than the standard measurements suggest.Reporting their findings in the influential journal Geophysical Research Letters, the scientists say the exact cause of the discrepancy is not known. One possibility is that the atmosphere responded faster than the sea to cooling events such as volcanic eruptions.A big cutThe findings have major implications for the climate change debate because sea temperature measurements are a key part of global warming calculations. According to the team, replacing the standard seawater data with the appropriate air data produces a big cut in the overall global warming rate during the last 20 years, from around 0.18C per decade to 0.13C.This suggests that the widely quoted global warming figure used to persuade governments to take action on greenhouse gas emissions exaggerates the true warming rate by almost 40 percent. The team is now calling for climate experts to switch from seawater data to sea-air temperature measurements.One member of the team, David Parker, of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office, said the discovery of the discrepancy ""shows we don't understand everything, and that we need better observations--all branches of science are like that."" Yet according to Parker, the new results do not undermine the case for global warming: ""It is raising questions about the interpretation of the sea-surface data.""Even so, the findings will be seized on by skeptics as more evidence that scientists have little idea about the current rate of global warming, let alone its future rate. Climate experts are still trying to explain why satellites measuring the temperature of the Earth have detected little sign of global warming, despite taking measurements during supposedly the warmest period on record.Some researchers suspect the fault may again lie with the ground-based temperature measurements. They say many of the data come from stations surrounded by growing urban sprawl, whose warmth could give a misleading figure. A study of data taken around Vienna, Austria, between 1951 and 1996 found that the air temperature rose by anything from zero to 0.6C, depending on precisely where the measurements were made.Robert Matthews is a staff reporter for the UK Telegraph, with whose permission this article is reprinted.",5_1
Only 100 Degrees Of Warming Needed To Start The Greenland Meltdown,0_0
"No matter how governments make energy more expensive, it's poor people who are hurt the most.",4_1
"2) While temperatures have increased in the Arctic since 1980, there have been similar decreases in the Antarctic.",1_1
In principle these cycles are sinusoidal in behavior as depicted in Figure 1. Bob Tisdale has also shown how the temperature increase of the 65-year cycle from 1975 to 1998 led to the assumption that it is due CO2 emissions because they too happened to be parallel. This has been naively extended all the way to the year 2100 and forms the basis for the climate models and the invention of the so-called climate catastrophe.,5_1
"A few years ago I quoted somewhere the alarmist scientist Steve Schneider as saying,",5_2
NBCC/CRA study estimates Waxman-Markey would reduce employment by 2.3 million jobs in 2015,4_1
Adds to scientific evidence that the sweeteners are metabolically equivalent,0_0
"The presenters on the panel were generally scathing about the quality of the IPCC's assessment reports in their fields of expertise. For instance, Prof. Reiter revealed that, the nine lead authors of the chapter discussing vector-borne diseases in the Second Assessment Report had published a total of six papers on the subject. The three leading critics of the chapter, including Prof. Reiter, had published over 550 scholarly papers. Prof. Morner has written in a peer-reviewed journal article that the IPCC chapter on sea-level rise represents ""a low and unacceptable standard. It should be totally rewritten by a totally new group of authors chosen among the group of true sea-level specialists.""",5_2
"""Be afraid. Be very afraid."" That is the overriding sentiment of a recent article titled ""Global Warming's Terrifying New Chemistry,"" written by Bill McKibben, an environmental activist and founder of 350.org, an organization dedicated to stopping the use of all fossil fuels. McKibben portrays methane, the primary component of natural gas, as a greenhouse gas potentially more dangerous than carbon dioxide because methane is more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere.",0_0
"Since March 1958, the d regular mtningar of carbon dioxide on Mauna Loa pbrjades, the content of the air cat with about (26%). Similar mtningar from a large number of platforms (ground stations, aircraft and satellites) have shown that Mauna Loa mtningarna broadly seen as representative for jordatmosfren as a whole. CO 2 content must is now about 396 ppmv (parts per million by volume). The increase since March 1958 amounts to 81 ppmv, and is equivalent to about 169 billion tonnes of carbon (169 Gtonnes). As framgr of Figure 1 The increase was monotonous and growing, and The increase in the last 20 clean has been more than double compared to 1960, and 1970. Fig. 1: Carbon dioxide concentration in ppm (v) at Mauna Loa from the period March 1958 March 2013 Klla NOAA http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/",0_0
These events result in surprises that cannot easily be predicted based on information obtained at a single scale.,0_0
"""Tropical fruit plantations followed sugar as the conquerors of lowland moist forests and by the 1950's tropical governments and multinational corporations were competing for control over natural resource systems"" Tropical timber industry also had massive acceleration after 1950. What made a lot of this possible were new bulldozers and gas-powered logging trucks that could now penetrate deeper into forest and provide far more timber. (Tucker, pp. 42-49)",0_0
"Remaining Presidential Contenders Differ Radically on Climate, Fossil Fuels",0_0
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2013. Climate Change 2013. The Physical Science Basis. Summary for Policymakers. 5 th Assessment Report of the IPCC.,0_0
"Now heres where the proponents of manmade global warming get goofy. In very basic terms: some climate scientists point to the cooling temperature in the eastern tropical Pacific and say global surface temperatures should also cool because the El Nio is done where they have their El Nio-measuring thermometers. Those scientists know theres a huge amount of warm water left over after a strong El Nio; they know the leftover warm water has been redistributed to other parts of the global oceans away from their El Nio-measuring thermometers; yet they have the gall of conmen when they to point to those El Nio-measuring thermometers in the eastern tropical Pacific and tell us the effects of the El Nio are done. They then heap it on thicker when they say, since surface temperatures have warmed away from their El Nio-measuring thermometers, the warming elsewhere must be caused by manmade greenhouse gases. They have presented that absurd argument in a good number of scientific papers. They know it makes no sense, I know it and now you know it.",1_4
6. Is overdevelopment the cause of the increase of automobile collisions with deer?,0_0
"Left unsaid is that carbon emissions, as far as the climate is concerned, play a very minor role. Moreover, all those investments have been forced on the coal power industry by ever increasing levels of regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency. The cost is passed along to electricity consumersall of usas a necessary increase.",4_1
"The U.S. could possibly even reduce its imports of fossil fuels by increasing domestic energy production, a political objective of both Democrats and Republicans. At the very least, the U.S. should be able to slow down the growth of fossil fuel imports, which contributes to its trade deficit. The extent to which the U.S. can reduce its oil imports will also depend on building nuclear power plants that can replace oil and coal generators that account for nearly 75% of U.S. electrical power.",4_5
"Two questions were key: have mean global temperatures risen compared to pre-1800s levels, and has human activity been a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures.",0_0
"The Earth system is not analogous to a house being heated with a furnace running at -18 degrees C, which temperature then gets amplified to +15 degrees C by insulation or backradiation or heat trapping. In fact, your furnace in your house doesnt even work like this. In fact, nothing anywhere works like this because it is a violation of thermodynamics. The greenhouse effect models have to violate thermodynamics because the people creating them never go back to think about whether they are conserving energy vs. flux, and whether or not they are conserving physics. These details havent apparently appealed to them.",5_1
"Those nations will certainly insist on reductions from the developed world as part of the price of any reductions in greenhouse gas emissions they agree to. If we?ve already unilaterally cut our emissions in advance of an agreement, we will have to make even more painful cuts to persuade developing countries to sign on. Finally, this particular Congress is going to be unable to reach agreement on any major legislation before the 2014 elections.",4_2
Nearly half the people who say they believe in global warming base that on personal observations of the weather.,0_0
"There's NASA scientist Jim Hansen's claim, first reported in the New York Times, that the agency is trying to ""silence"" him by asking to preview his lectures, papers and Internet postings before he goes public. To Hansen, this ""seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the United States.""",0_0
"""The Association of Electricity Producers (AEP) met officials from Defra about the targets last week. It is concerned that the Government has underestimated how many tons of carbon are emitted each year by power stations, which are responsible for most of the CO2 output in the UK. This means they would have to cut their emissions even more to meet their allocations.""",0_0
"Projections made from climate models all predict that global warming should impact Arctic sea ice first and most intensely, Serreze said. ""We have known for many years that as the Earth started to warm up, the effects would be seen first in the Arctic and not the Antarctic. The physical geography of the two hemispheres is very different. Largely as a result of that, they behave very differently.""",0_0
"The committee also pointed to several awards given to Mann for his research including Scientific American's naming Mann as one of the ""50 leading visionaries in science and technology"" and its selection of a web site co-founded by Mann as one of the top 25 ""science and technology"" web sites in 2005. The committee then wrote, ""had Dr. Mann's conduct of his research been outside the respected practices, it would have been impossible for him to receive so many awards and recognitions """,0_0
Two recent studies have shown that 97 percent to 98 percent of researchers who actively publish peer-reviewed research on climate change agree that humans are significantly affecting Earths climate.,0_0
21: The increase in sea level is probably an indication of warming. 22: Sea levels were rising well before 1900. 23: We could not have been to blame for sea level rise before 1900. 24: The rate of sea-level rise is slow. 25: It is difficult to attribute the current rate of rise to us.,1_6
But a problem surely arises when journals are run by IPCC insiders themselves.,5_2
"The organizations are justifying their action because they care more about climate change than the environment. But the effectiveness of this project in making a meaningful dent in US greenhouse gas emissions is far from certain. The plant will provide peak power for just 140,000 users. Taxpayers are subsidizing up to 80 percent of the costs for the $2 billion project, according to the LA Times, and energy bills are still going to go up 50 percent if they use it.",4_1
the conduct of the scientists passes muster on the basis of three independent inquiries and that the science therefore stands.,0_0
"Another continuing measure to reduce emissions is high gasoline taxes. Taxes have been increased to exorbitant levels in most western European nations, so that the typical price of gasoline is now over $7 per gallon. Yet emissions from the transportation sector have increased 26% since 1990, according to the European Environment Agency. It should be noted that each one dollar of tax per gallon of gas translates into a tax of approximately $100 per metric ton of carbon dioxide emissions.",4_2
"The poorest and most underprivileged people in the world would benefit most from coal furnaces, natural gas plants, and other modern resources that our carbon-based economy and infrastructure help generate.",4_5
"Still, taken together, the data reveals a consistent and convincing picture of near-zero warming trends in the tropical troposphere i.e., absence of an observed ""hot spot"". Coupled with a modeled trend ""amplification""' of about 2, this suggests an extremely low value for the land surface trend hence low values of climate sensitivity to increases in CO2.",2_3
"If you thought the last Robinson-DeFazio bout was a humdinger, stick around. You ain't seen nothing yet.",0_0
There are so many in just this one spot that they have to give them numbers. I was greatly amused to find out that they have an official Turbine Spill Kit.,0_0
"The recent cold weather across North America has had a severe impact on the availability, quality and cost of tomatoes.",1_3
"Paper: ""No matter what the weather, it's all due to warming. This isn't science; it's a kind of faith'",5_2
Geoengineering solutions are less expensive than carbon reduction. University of Texas professor Eric Bickel and Hudson Institute fellow Lee Lane estimate that the discounted cost of enhancing clouds' reflectance through salt water spraying for 200 years could cost $300 million to $1.8 billion. The discounted global benefits over the same period would be $4 trillion to $10 trillion.,4_2
"Yet ever-so slowly as the above chart shows Republicans are becoming more alarmed about the climate, though not as fast as Democrats and independents.",0_0
Q: Malcolm Ross: What about the growing sunspot numbers. There seems to be very high correlation with temperatures. And this seems to be ignored along with --,2_1
MCA period may have been more climatically extreme than in modern times.,1_7
Former IPCC Chairman: Greens Cannot be Trusted,5_2
"Seiler and Crutzen further estimated that wildfires in temporal plus boreal forests comprised ~35.7% of all dry matter burned but pointed out that 7090% of such wildfires were due to human activity (e.g., campfires, debris burning, cigarettes, etc.). Thus, of total world fire emissions today, ~7.1% (3.6%10.7%) may be natural and the rest, anthropogenic. Houghton indicates that, in 1850, CO2 emissions from land use change may have been ~34% those in 2005. Thus, in 1850, BB emissions were lower than those today. Such emissions may have been mostly anthropogenic although partly natural as well. Today, BB emissions are much higher with only a small percent natural.",0_0
"At the very least, we should streamline the thousands upon thousands of regulations that slow the ability of the energy, manufacturing, and transportation sectors to respond quickly to changing climate circumstances.",0_0
"According to Baos group, the odd oxygen isotope ratios they find in barite samples from 635 million years ago could have occurred if, following the extensive Snowball Earth glaciation, Earths atmosphere had very high levels of carbon dioxide, or CO2. An ultra-high carbon dioxide atmosphere, Killingsworth explains, where CO2 levels match levels of atmospheric oxygen, would grab more O-17 from oxygen. This would cause a depletion of the O-17 isotope in air and subsequently in barite minerals, which incorporate oxygen as they grow. Baos group has found worldwide deposits of this O-17 depleted sulfate mineral in rocks dating from the global glaciation event 635 million years ago, indicating an episode of an ultra-high carbon dioxide atmosphere following the Marinoan glaciation.",0_0
The over 5 million it has received will g partly to spread further IPCC's knowledge and messages and also to a newly instated fund for young scientists in utvecklingslnder (The IPCC Bert Bolin Memorial Scholarship Fund).,0_0
"The problem is one of time and energy density: while nature spent millions of years concentrating solar energy in the forms of peat, coal, oil, and natural gas, all of the biofuels rely on sunlight to grow crops. Because such energy is extremely diffuse, the scale of land consumption and the labor required to gather massive quantities of low-density fuel quickly leads to diminishing returns.",4_4
"Yeatman: He's 25% truthful. We produce more gas than ever before, but in spite of, not because of, Obama administration. Energy bills are NOT lower, thanks to President's war on coal.",4_5
David Whitehouse and I have produced a few films for the GWPF on the subject of extreme weather.,0_0
Save the planet. Melt the polar ice caps. Drown a Polar Bear. Take a climatologist seriously.,0_0
Dyson said his skepticism about those computer models was borne out by recent reports of a study by Ed Hawkins of the University of Reading in Great Britain that showed global temperatures were flat between 2000 and 2010 even though we humans poured record amounts of CO-2 into the atmosphere during that decade.,1_4
"The EPA then states that ""the projected reductions in atmospheric CO2, global mean temperature, sea level rise, and ocean pH are meaningful in the context of this action."" And so we arrive at the benefit/cost conclusion, given in all seriousness:",0_0
"According to researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), man-made global warming has been hiding in a deep and limited portion of the Pacific Ocean since the year 2000, thereby explaining why worldwide atmospheric temperatures have not risen during the 2000-2015 time frame.",0_0
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/MSL global trendtable.html,0_0
"And the Independent, a widely read British newspaper, reported today that ""Sir David King, the British Government's chief scientific adviser, has warned that global warming may be responsible for the devastation reaped by Hurricane Katrina."" King contended that ""the increased intensity of hurricanes is associated with global warming.""",0_0
"So, just for laughs, heres another demonstration, involving a simple model of the cooling of the soil at night.",0_0
"If you want to know what this energy is in terms of flux, then the Solar flux deposits 480 W/m2(and this is still a poor average because it is linear and ignores real-time location dependence), and the Earth emits 240W/m2. The energy from the Sun and the Earth can not be numerically equated in terms of flux, but only in energy .",0_0
"Global Warming Causing Winters To Simultaneously Get Colder And Warmer Which is it?! ""We conclude that the recent decline of Arctic sea ice has played a critical role in recent cold and snowy winters' Or ""As winters growwarmer and summers drier, the West's evergreen forests are being eaten alive'",0_0
"According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), carbon-dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels increased 0.7 percent in the United States from 2000 to 2006, far below the worldwide increase of 21.6 percent. During the same period, emissions grew 4.9 percent in Europe, 37.6 percent in the Middle East, and 52.3 percent in Asia. Major developing nations saw big increases. India, Malaysia, and China's emissions increased 27.7 percent, 45.8 percent, and 103 percent, respectively.",0_0
"11. This is especially disappointing. Based on the above, the authors appear to have gotten little at all out of their reading of Mann et al (2005). Morevoer, Mann et al (2006) have already dispelled the specious claim that the findings for the AD 1400 sparse network are any different for those for the full network. They are not. Moreover, what can the authors possibly mean by ""non-sense"" predictors if not predictors that are composed entirely or almost entirely of noise. At SNR=0.25, for which Mann et al (2005) show a skillful reconstruction is still produced, the pseudoproxies are composed of 94% noise by variance. In more recent work Mann et al (2006) have shown this is true even if the noise is substantially more red than is supported for actual proxy records. Mann et al (2006) show that the performance for a fixed SNR=0.4 (86% noise by variance) are very similiar that for a multiproxy data set with the same average SNR (0.4), but for which the SNR for individual pseudoproxies ranges from SNR=0.1 to SNR=0.7. Would BC try to seriously argue now that pseudoproxies with SNR=0.1 (essentially, entirely composed of noise) are not nonsense predictors by their definition. Lets think a bit about what the real ""nonsense"" is here.",0_0
"So it is more or less inevitable that we will indeed burn hydrogen, the most pristine of all fuels, just as they hope. And we will accept that the only readily available supplies of hydrogen in unburnt form are in gas, oil and coal. The policy will be to burn more fossil fuel, less efficiently--to extract a lot less heat out of the same amount of fuel. Even as manufacturers struggle to design new car engines that go farther on the same amount of heat. We will raise efficiency at every stage of the energy pipeline except at the source, where we will reduce it, drastically, far more than we can raise it in any of the tiers above. This may perhaps save the ice caps. It certainly won't ruin the oil companies.",0_0
"Regional reconstructions are generally more worthwhile than reconstructions from a single site because, if there is shared variance, the regional result is likely to be more robust and be more representative and that makes it more valuable for continental and hemispheric comparisons. The key issues are whether all the trees (or some subset of them) share a common signal (are they mostly temperature sensitive? are some localities anomalous? etc.). It isnt as simple as just averaging all the trees in a grid box or two. The history of such efforts follows a mostly standard path local chronologies are put together, different standardisation techniques are applied, more data is collected, wider collations are put together, and then regional reconstructions start to appear.",0_0
"The first threshold question is: when were U.S. CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use last at 1 billion tons, the year 2050 target? From DOE historical statistics on energy consumption, it is possible to estimate that the United States last emitted 1 billion tons in the year 1910, when the nation's population was only 92 million people, per-capita income (in 2008 dollars) was only $6,196, and total GDP (also in 2008 dollars) was about $572 billionabout one-twenty-fifth the size of the U.S. economy today (see table 1).",0_0
"This has variously been reported as take all of the carbon out of electricity in other sources, for instance here and here . As Miliband stumbled through the speech with no notes, and even forgot to mention the deficit, it may be that he meant electricity and not energy. In any event, well assume he meant electricity for the moment.",0_0
"Those hypotheses may be summarized as follows. First, man s increased use of fossil energy is warming the earth significantly. Second, the impact of such warming will be catastrophic and rapid. Third, the scheme to coordinate global energy use reductions worldwide is feasible and effective. Fourth, if we do it smart, it won t cost much. Finally, energy rationing will provide greater safety than concerted efforts to make societies freer, wealthier, and, thus, better able to ride out the shocks and surprises of an unknown future. Note that the mere fact that the Earth might be warming, or that mankind might be causing such warming, does not in itself clinch the case for an international climate treaty.",0_0
"Conference organizers claim that the 290,000 tons (by some estimates) of carbon dioxide that will be produced as a result of the conference can be offset through some sort of compensation fund. Mary Metcalfe, of the Department for Agriculture, Conservation, Environment and Land Affairs of South Africa's Gauteng Province, announced, ""We are measuring the carbon dioxide emissions of the summit. These emissions will be offset through investments in carbon reducing sustainable projects across South Africa. I urge all delegates to take responsibility for their own CO2 emissions. It is one small step towards a sustainable climate and will be an important contribution to innovative alternate energy projects in South Africa.""",0_0
"On the other hand, an El Nio takes naturally created warm water from below the surface of the western tropical Pacific and relocates it the surface. When its below the surface, the warm water is not included in the surface temperature record, but during and after the El Nio, the warm water is included in the surface temperature record. That warm water makes a short appearance in the eastern tropical Pacificwhere scientists measure sea surface temperatures so that we know an El Nio is taking placebefore the warm water is distributed around the global oceans, causing the long-term natural warming of sea surface and land surface air temperatures.",0_0
"Emissions from aviation are substantial. For example, in the United Kingdom aviation accounts for 15 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions, and this is estimated to grow by two thirds by 2050. Cheaper flights and more passengers account for most of the projected increase.",0_0
"This is where most of the earth's infrared radiation is being lost. It is from clear air, in between the clouds, that is sinking. Its the humidity of this layer that is most important to global warming theory. OK? The humidity of this layer. Where does this layer get its humidity? It gets it from these rainfall systems. If you watch the next thunderstorm that you see, the top of the thunderstorm spreads out; that anvil material spreads out in the clouds. The clouds spread out in the upper troposphere out to the side and then disappear. That's because they are re-evaporating - that's what moistens the troposphere. It is the detrain cloud material from these rain systems that then moistens this layer. This layer and how moist it is the moisture mostly controls how much infrared radiation is lost to space.",0_0
"This is larger than is justified based on the upper ocean heat changes, as has been discussed by myself and others (e.g. Knox and Douglas 2010 ). The heat accumulation they refer to alsohas hardly been steady. However, lets just use these values.",0_0
"Today, even schoolchildren carry iPhones, which are orders of magnitude more powerful ? and much cheaper. That same innovative process will make both emissions reduction technology and mitigation efforts cheaper and better in the future.",0_0
"""In scenario C the CO2 growth is the same as scenarios A and B through 1985; between 1985 and 2000 the annual increment is fixed at 1.5 ppmv/yr; after 2000, CO2 ceases to increase, its abundance remaining fixed at 368 ppmv.""",0_0
"No serious study has supported those claims. All the key studies concluded that potential environmental impacts would be limited and manageable. Even a tiny price rise would cut domestic demand, lowering the overall US carbon footprint. And international buyers are eager for natural gas so as to cut back on the most carbon-polluting source, coal and, as in the case of Japan, nuclear energy.""xports would likely reduce global greenhouse gas emissions,"" Levi wrote.",0_0
The Growth & Water Use Efficiency of Two Tree Species Since 1850 (7 April 2015),0_0
Current comparison between IPCC projections and five data sets.,0_0
The filtration plant will be powered by electricity from our coal burning power plants.,0_0
The global average surface temperature trend is an icon of the climate change community (e.g. see ). Global policies are based on this temperature.,0_0
"The research suggests that previous estimates of oxygen-free and hydrogen sulfide-rich conditions, or euxinia, were too high. Nevertheless, the limited and localized euxinia were still sufficiently widespread to have dramatic effect on the entire oceans chemistry and thus biological activity.",0_0
"These vital actions will almost certainly be opposed by President Obama, Democrats, environmentalist pressure groups, and other members of the Climate Crisis and Renewable Energy Complex. But they are absolutely essential if the United States is going to have an economic and employment revival, and poor, minority and blue-collar families are to be protected from fraud, regulatory excess and ruling elites.",0_0
Also there is much published evidence for Europe (and France in particular) of,0_0
nan,0_0
"Al Gore has no friends. And nothing to say. Nothing at all. If he hides for much longer, Part One will need a new label and target.",0_0
"148 twisters, killing more than 300 people and causing $500+ million in damage amid global cooling and CO2 < 330 ppm!",0_0
"* what is generally agreed about the warming situation in Australia now and in 50 years time, including its likely impact on our agriculture, weather patterns and general living?;",0_0
"Look, there could be a climate catastrophe in fifty years. And we could hit some sustainability wall in fifty years.",0_0
They wrote reports suggesting ways of coping with heatwaves such as planting palm trees to keep the pavements cool but ignored the threat of snow and ice.,0_0
"Of course, those who read this article won't be surprised at the upsurge in CCDS:",0_0
"Increased Svalbard Glacial acceleration started suddenly in 2012, was limited to one continental glacier, occurred in only one portion of the Austfonna ice cap, was verified to NOT occur in the adjacent Vestfonna ice cap, and has not been documented elsewhere in the island chain (Figure 3).",0_0
"Water explains many elements of weather as reflected in the response of plants and animals, but they even perverted that evidence.",0_0
"Heres a short quote, then you can follow the link if you want to. And then weep for the future of humanity, that this sort of thing gets taken seriously these days . . .",0_0
"A. Parker, M. Saad Saleem and M. Lawson. 2013. Sea-Level Trend Analysis for Coastal Management, Ocean and Coastal Management. Ocean & Coastal Management, 73, 6381. 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.12.005.",0_0
A longer NASA feature article and videos describe the results in greater detail. (below),0_0
"1) Warm Bias: How The Met Office Mislead The British Public The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 18 December 2010",0_0
"Given the above, we should consider what level of participation could realistically be achieved and what the compliance cost would be. Furthermore, given the cost penalty for the participants, we need a persuasive case that there is a high probability of a global agreement to price carbon being implemented and maintained for as long as necessary to achieve the projected benefits (i.e. reduced climate damages).",0_0
"Scientific inquiry is challenging. One must make observations, then create a hypothesis to explain these observations. Once the hypothesis predicts future observations, conclusions are reached about cause and effect of the aforementioned observations. This is called the scientific method.",0_0
Read the full article at Politico's Morning Energy.,0_0
"Dr Pearman began his presentation by suggesting that the break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf was a consequence of global warming. When I questioned him on this issue, he told the audience that Antarctica is warming.",0_0
"Consumer advocates and others have recommended conservation to reduce demand for electric power. With the state keeping rates down, however, consumers have little incentive to conserve. Some civic-minded people may shut off their lights or turn down their furnaces, but with rising natural gas prices, many will choose to turn down their thermostats to reduce their gas bills and plug in their electric heaters to maintain their comfort.",0_0
"The state AGs seek to hold ExxonMobil and other oil companies ""accountable"" for ""fraud and suppression of key climate science."" They argue that Exxon somehow reached definitive conclusions about global warming before climate experts did, at a time when climate science was in its infancy, and then withheld this secret knowledge from the scientific community.",0_0
"The strong but shorter than average (8 months compared to 2 years) El Nio event that we have experienced is quickly giving way to its opposite, La Nia. Whereas El Nio is characterized by an accumulation of hot water in the Pacific Ocean near Peru, La Nia is characterized by colder than average sea surface temperatures in the same area. Sea surface temperatures have dropped by 15 degrees Fahrenheit from early May to early June.",0_0
Delegates to a United Nations global warming conference defend the U.S. record on climate change.,0_0
"Installed solar power capacity at the end of 2010 was less than 1 GW in China, the worlds largest exporter of photovoltaic products and home to some of the industrys top players, such as Trina Solar, JA Solar, Suntech Power and LDK Solar.",0_0
"Meteorologist Anthony Watts: ""Apparently, Gore has never noted that climate scientists once thought snowfall would disappear.But wait, there's more. According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become ?a very rare and exciting event?. ?Children just aren't going to know what snow is,? Viner said.",0_0
"Niger was a ""stray after-thought, carved out of the remnants of French West Africa when the region won freedom from France exactly 45 years ago,' said Loyn. And in 1973 it suffered the peak of its worst famine. A three-year famine devastated the country causing widespread starvation and thousands of deaths. As in most famines, political mismanagement contributed more to death than the weather. With drought in 2004 and low rainfall in 2005 Loyn draws parallels with that great famine and implies that climate change is contributing.",0_0
"A change in our climate however is taking place very sensibly. Both heats and colds are become much more moderate within the memory even of the middle-aged. Snows are less frequent and less deep. They do not often lie, below the mountains, more than one, two, or three days, and very rarely a week. They are remembered to have been formerly frequent, deep, and of long continuance. The elderly inform me the earth used to be covered with snow about three months in every year. The rivers, which then seldom failed to freeze over in the course of the winter, scarcely ever do so now. This change has produced an unfortunate fluctuation between heat and cold, in the spring of the year, which is very fatal to fruits. From the year 1741 to 1769, an interval of twenty-eight years, there was no instance of fruit killed by the frost in the neighbourhood of Monticello. An intense cold, produced by constant snows, kept the buds locked up till the sun could obtain, in the spring of the year, so fixed an ascendency as to dissolve those snows, and protect the buds, during their developement, from every danger of returning cold. The accumulated snows of the winter remaining to be dissolved all together in the spring, produced those overflowings of our rivers, so frequent then, and so rare now.",0_0
"The actual first-order science has pretty much gotten lost in this second-order posturing by both sides. This is bad for science, and bad for policy. Given that I think the IPCC on balance may not be helping climate science, greater reliance on national assessments or assessments undertaken by other international groups would be a good thing. Note: the U.S. has produced a plethora of climate change assessments in the past two years, which are probably more important for U.S. policy than the IPCC assessments.",0_0
"The maximum likelihood (minimum log likelihood) is similar for each of the 4 autocorrelation models (though OLS is slightly higher than the others), but the confidence intervals are much wider for AR1 and other schemes. In this example, there isnt much difference between AR1 and more complicated autocorrelation structures (but there are other cases in which the differences are very noticeable.) Ive also plotted the Santer T2LT ensemble mean trend, which is well outside the 95% confidence interval (using maximum likelihood) something that we had previously reported applying the (1-r)/(1+r) degrees of freedom adjustment used in Santer et al. (but they only reported results for obsolete data ending in 1999).",0_0
1) Temperature trends https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/uk-temperature-trends/,0_0
"Instantly, Mann was then plucked from obscurity and appointed not just a contributing author for Chapters 7,8,12 of the IPCC's Third Assessment Report (1998-00) but also Lead Author for Chapter 2. And with no track record whatsoever in this field, Mann now with tree ring data thrust into his hand, famously carved out his infamous ""hockey stick' graph.",5_2
"""This is climate change,"" she said. ""We were warned about extreme weather, not just hot weather but extreme weather. When I had my hearings scientists all agreed that what we'd start to see was extreme weather. It's going to get hot. But you're also going to see snow in the summer in some places. You're going have terrible storms. You're going to have tornadoes.""",0_0
"But for the near future, mans need for energy means that oil will still be the lifeblood of civilization.",4_5
And Im betting Forecast the Facts wont exist anymore in three years. Any takers?,0_0
We all made the mistake of believing the IPCC was a gem of an organization simply because it is connected to protecting the environment.,5_2
"Now, bear in mind that my calculations do not include any forcing from CO2. Could CO2 explain the 0.03C per decade of error that remains in the NH trend? We can run the numbers to find out.",0_0
Germany has been minimizing the damage by paying consumers to take excess power and asking wind and solar producers to switch off when they're not needed. Germany paid wind farms $548 million last year to switch off in order to prevent damage to the country's electric grid.,4_4
"There are four main parts of the issue to consider. First, climate change is the central obsession of the environmental left and its sock puppets in the Democratic Party in Congress. Churchill once defined a fanatic as someone who can't change their mind and won't change the subject. The issue of climate change is mired in monomania both as to the nature of the problem and the range of possible responses to climate change, of any dimension, for whatever cause. For the climate fanatics, change is always catastrophic, immediate, caused solely by humans, and can only be addressed by hugeand hugely expensivereductions in fossil fuel energy use.",0_0
"I would also remind her that Italy has ratified with Kyoto and that therefore will have to acquire a 25% renewable energy by 2016, worth an expensive fine (equal financial 5-6).",0_0
Comments On The EPA Proposed Endangerment And Cause Or Contribute Findings For Greenhouse Gases Under The Clean Air Act .,0_0
"Was data deleted? The committee report (12) Prof Edward Acton's reply to their letter, in which the UEA boss said that ""none of the adjusted station data referred to in the emails that have been published has been destroyed"". Given that it was the raw data that everyone was after, it was disingenuous of Sir Edward to respond in this way and disingenuous of the committee not to report his evasion.",5_2
"Yet, the Administration remains ignorant and arrogant in the pursuit of its plan to force closure of coal-fired power plants and require new solar and wind generation, regardless of costs to the consumers. The lack of critical thinking is reminiscent of the Johnson administrations repeated commitments of ground troops into Vietnam, without a well thought-out strategic plan. See Article # 2, links under The Administrations New Plan Push-Back, and Alternative, Green (Clean) Solar and Wind.",4_1
"Further, at the end of the El Nio, sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific cool and return to normal levels. They might even cool to temperatures below normal if a La Nia follows the El Nio. That typically happens after a very strong El Niothat is, La Nias typically follow strong El Nios.",0_0
"Developing America's vast domestic oil, natural gas, coal, shale gas and uranium deposits will generate millions of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in critically needed royalty and tax revenue. We must ensure that our energy policies generate revenues and create jobs instead of requiring constant taxpayer subsidies and destroying two to four traditional jobs for every ""green"" job that government ""creates.""",4_5
"Its Pontifical Academy of Sciences recently held a workshop on climate change and sustainability . But only religious leaders, scientists, bureaucrats and regulators who support alarmist perspectives on these issues were invited. Those with contrary views were neither invited, welcomed nor tolerated.",5_2
"In case vinrmast consider (exchange of carbon dioxide, primrt mellanatmosfr, seawater and biosfr) Is it really frga of compartmental kinetics and a diversity complicating further factors, but I illustrate in the FOLLOWING a very frenklat skdningsfall drkemisk kinetics and jmviktsinstllningmodelleras in a joint behllare.",0_0
"The policies examined in the MIT study surely differ from those that will emerge from the regulatory processes given force by the president. But if the effect of the latter is some substantial reduction in GHG emissions, in particular from electric power generation, then it is difficult to see how the distributional impacts might differ substantially from those reported by MIT, and it also is difficult to believe that the basic red-to-blue transfer is accidental. Instead, given that the actual climate effects of reductions in U.S. emissions would be trivial, it is straightforward to hypothesize that the direction of the wealth transfer is the central motivating objective of this policy proposal.",0_0
"Energy policy will be a critical component of the agenda of the next Administration and Congress. Such an agenda should address, among other things, the Keystone XL and other pipelines, nuclear energy, renewable energy, climate change, offshore drilling, hydraulic fracturing and other energy technologies, energy exports, and more.",0_0
"how to capitalize on the global tide of migrants from poor nations to rich ones, to encompass a new ""international migration governance framework"";",0_0
TRENDS ON A ZONAL-MEAN (LATITUDE-AVERAGE) BASIS PER OCEAN BASIN,0_0
"The scale of the decarbonisation challenge to meet the Paris Agreement is underplayed in the public arena. It will require precipitous emission reductions and a new carbon sink on the scale of the ocean sink within 40 years. Even then, the world is extremely likely to overshoot. A catastrophic failure of policy, for example waiting another decade for transformative policy and full commitments to fossil-free economies, will have irreversible and deleterious repercussions for humanity's remaining time on Earth. Only a global zero carbon roadmap will put the world on a course to phase-out greenhouse gas emissions and create the essential carbon sinks for Earth-system stability, without which, world prosperity is not possible.",0_0
The Large Hadron Collider Can Destroy Our World Indeed,0_0
"The USHCN is actually a designated subset of the NOAA Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) Network the USHCN sites having been selected according to their spatial coverage, record length, data completeness, and historical stability.",0_0
"This study shows that there is a fundamental issue with a critical aspect of radiative forcing (the albedo). The uncertainties are on a order of a few watts per meter squared. This uncertainty, regardless of the fraction that is due to the global models and the observations, respectively, is on the same order as the magnitudes of the the other radiative forcings! The assessment of albedo changes over time, as they influence the net radiative forcing at the level of tenths of watts per meter squared, is not yet achievable based on the results of this study.",0_0
"side-by-side for the entirety of human existence until, it seems, the",0_0
"After the very high melt rates of the 2007-2012 period, the trend reversed in 2013 and especially in 2014 when the melt fell below the long-term average. What could be the reasons for this? Currently one can only speculate. One clue can be taken from a study by Mojib Latif from the year 2013:",0_0
"Why are emissions rising so quickly? We can find the answer largely in the coal numbers. Last year, global coal use grew by about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. Let's compare that soaring coal use with what's happening with the political darlings of the moment: wind and solar energy. According to the BP data, global wind-energy production grew by about 500,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day and solar grew by about 150,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Thus, in 2013, global coal use grew at a rate that was roughly four times that of wind and 13 times that of solar.",0_0
"The AMS tells us, ""Barry Saltzman led the revival of the theory that variations of atmospheric CO2 are a significant driver of long-term climate change.""",0_0
"America is the land of opportunity. With the abundance of resources beneath U.S. soil, the land is literally an opportunity. America has an abundance of natural resources, including sufficient energy reserves to provide Americans with affordable, reliable energy for several centuries. With its plentiful reserves of coal, natural gas, uranium, and oil, the United States is already a global leader in energy production. Regrettably, the federal government prohibits resource development in many parts of the country and off its coasts. Opening access begins with providing the opportunity for companies to develop America's resources, whether conventional sources of energy, minerals, or wind or solar power.",4_5
"There are two basic methods of estimating future changes in sea level: direct observation by tide gauges or by satellites, and computing by models .",0_0
"Gas prices have surged, as have the demands for the government to do something about it. But only a few of the factors affecting gasoline prices are within federal control. It is these things particularly taxes and regulations that should be, but aren't, the focus of efforts to reduce the pain at the pumps.",0_0
"More broadly, NRDC's priorities do not align with those of the public. Remember, all policymaking is a balancing of interests. For environmental policymaking, the balance is often struck between economic progress and environmental protection. But NRDC's input is decidedly unbalanced. As with modern environmentalism as a whole, the NRDC demonizes industry in general, and fossil fuels in particular. They've personified coal as ""evil"" and they believe that global warming should be the world's number one priority. However, these positions are not shared by the vast majority of the Americans, who worry about their material wellbeing in addition to environmental protection.",0_0
"Addressing renewables' growth, Finley said it was happening ""most typically in places where the governments can afford the subsidies needed to help these fuels compete. The key challenge going forward is: when things grow fast, subsidies get expensive fast. So can these forms of energy achieve economies of scale that will allow them to compete without subsidies?""",0_0
"Since the mid 90's, scientists, but predominantly politicians, have been playing with the concept of a Green GDP, expanding the data to include environmental costs. This process is now gaining speed, e.g., in the World Bank.",0_0
"There are many others arrayed against Common Core, but the usual socialist suspects in favor. John Dewey isnt dead.",0_0
"Ethanol: Useless for Energy Independence, Bad for the Hungry",0_0
"In fact, this is buried on Page 805 of the latest assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): The set of available models may share fundamental inadequacies, the effects of which cannot be quantified. Its telling that this was not stated forthrightly in the assessments summary.",0_0
"8. Donella Meadows, Jorgen Rander, and Denise Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (White River Junction: Chelsea Press, 2004), xix.",0_0
"And what about the Arctic sea ice predictions? You have to laugh at the authors' shamelessness in picking Arctic sea ice here. Look, it's worse than we thought! Nevertheless, Stroeve et al 2007 proves an interesting read, with computer model simulations presented alongside observational data going back to 1950. The early figures in this dataset were apparently based on a paper from the Met Office, a read of which reveals that they were based on interpolation from other data points. The paper also contains these words of caution:",5_1
It's a bit annoying that one can't fully agree with even papers whose basic point is obviously right.,0_0
"Has the globe warmed? Most think that since the late 19th century, there has been some warming. The issue becomes muddled when you consider such factors as the reliability of the data sets, the selective use of the proxy data used to estimate historic temperatures and the way urbanization warms local weather stations.",5_1
From Dolinar et al. (2014): Evaluation of CMIP5 simulated clouds and TOA radiation budgets using NASA satellite observations . Their abstract begins:,0_0
"Resiliencythe capacity for adaptation in the face of changeis best measured by wealth. By virtue of its low per capita income, Mississippi is one of the least resilient states in America. If Congress taxed Mississippi's energy use as part of its climate plan, it would slow down the state's economic growth, and render Mississippians even more vulnerable to global warming.",0_0
"Recently, about one-third of America?s huge corn crop has been diverted from food and feed into an ultra-costly auto fuel that gives consumers poorer mileage even as it drives up their food costs. The corn ethanol diversion creates an artificial scarcity of farmland, as it attracts more land into corn instead of wheat or other crops?and the price effects are felt globally. In 2008, the ethanol mandate drove food prices up by more than 50 percent worldwide, and triggered food riots in Mexico and several other countries.",4_4
"Obama falsely claimed that the stimulus package was needed to prevent ""irreversible decline,"" but the Congressional Budget Office admitted that it would actually shrink the economy ""in the long run."" Unemployment has skyrocketed past European levels, as big-spending countries have fared worse than thrifty ones. As the Examiner notes, ""If his stimulus program was approved, Obama promised, unemployment would not go above 8 percent . . . The reality is that it passed 10.3 percent."" In 2008, Obama promised a ""net spending cut,"" but as soon as he was elected, he proposed massive spending increases.",0_0
"Climate change is a real phenomenon, but the catastrophic scenario of Gore and his fellow climate campaigners is steadily fraying around the edges if you follow the scientific literature closely.",5_2
"""The first glimpses I got behind the scenes did little to garner my trust in the state of climate science on the contrary,"" Mr. FOIA continued. ""I found myself in front of a choice that just might have a global impact."" Reveal what he had discovered, or keep it to himself and let the lies continue?",0_0
The worldwide network neutron monitors that have since been established gather data that have shown there is a correlation between periodic solar activity and the earthly neutron count. For example:,0_0
"As the clean energy scam collapses around the world, our Great Leader plans a comeback.",4_4
"Just because a bunch of noisy, self-interested academics and politicians say that we're destroying the world does not mean that we should give up everything that modern technology has given us without abundant proof. For years now, Al Gore has been pointing to his fellow Nobel-prize winners, the IPC, as the last word in scientific proof. Today those selfsame ""authorities"" stand revealed instead as charlatans of no more scientific standing than Doctor Cure-all and his Magic Elixir.",5_2
"The numbers tell the story. Since 2006, the U.S. has added 3.6 million barrels per day of new oil production. That's roughly equal to the combined output of two Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: Kuwait and Ecuador. That surge in crude production has driven global oil prices down from more than $100 per barrel in 2014 to about $45 per barrel today.",0_0
"Climate chaos is likewise the foundation for endless, punitive government policies and regulations intended to keep oil, gas and coal ""in the ground."" Crony politicians pass laws and unelected bureaucrats impose rules that transfer taxpayer and consumer wealth, decide which companies, industries and workers win or lose, and control people's lives, livelihoods, liberties and living standards.",4_1
"He was not surprised, however, by the near-unanimous agreement by climatologists.'",0_0
Climate scientists hold new year's sing-along trapped in Antarctic ice,1_1
"But new environmental problems emerged. Smoke pollution from burning cheap dirty coal in millions of open fires, old boilers and smelters produced massive smog problems in cities like London and Pittsburgh.The solution was improved technology, sensible pollution-control laws and the supply of coal gas and coal-powered electricity to the cities.",0_0
"There was never any prospect that the United States was going to agree to a treaty whose emissions reductions would have assured the acceleration of the relocation of American manufacturing industry overseasthis is why even the most green and liberal members of the U.S. Senate voted (by a margin of 95-0) for the Byrd-Hagel resolution in 1997 demanding that President Clinton not agree to a climate treaty that did not include developing nations such as China, India, Mexico, South Korea and Brazil in its emissions caps. But that is exactly the treaty that Al Gore brought back from Kyoto. And as of this moment it appears that Kyoto II will have virtually the same defect, though we can expect some fancy footwork in Copenhagen in December to try to dress up or disguise this fact.",0_0
"Is there any hope of limiting carbon emissions to 30-50 gigatons in 2030, as many climatologists have called for, with substantial reductions thereafter? Some countries, notably Denmark and Sweden, have significantly reduced emissions. Can the U.S. do the same?",0_0
"In Hollywood, there's no business like show business. Inside the Beltway, there's no show like the business of sound-bite showboating. In the president's speech there appears the phrase ""carbon pollution"" no fewer than 30 times. In the Orwellian language of the environmental left, ""carbon pollution"" is carbon dioxide a natural substance that is not toxic to humans at many times greater than current ambient concentrations and that protects plants from various environmental stresses. It is unlike any other effluent regulated by the EPA for which less is better. Too little carbon dioxide would make life difficult, and in the extreme case, the Earth uninhabitable. That obviously will not be the result of the president's proposals if implemented. But the large expansion of government power and centralized planning authority inherent in the proposals is not an end to be pursued.",0_0
"This is just one instance I've found where environmentalists blame some man-made threat for a problem largely caused by their own misguided policies. The primary cause of the malaria resurgence is the ban of DDT, which was demonized by Rachel Carson's influential Silent Spring yet remains the most effective insecticide for use to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes.",0_0
Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them,0_0
"Let's begin with the facts: During the past three decades, storms have become more destructive throughout Florida for one simple reason -- the state's population has grown. Indeed, it has tripled over 40 years. As people have moved near the coast they have both built in harm's way and destroyed the coastal wetlands that provide a natural buffer against hurricane-caused storm surge.",1_7
"If you cant measure a risk, you cant manage it, Bloomberg added, warning that a damaging storm like Sandy could happen again.",0_0
"In describing the differences between their work and Mann's, Chapman et al. use surprisingly strong language for a scientific paper. They describe three of Mann's conclusions as ""misleading,"" and his end-point analysis as ""erroneous"" and ""just bad science.""",5_2
"The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released an interesting (if somewhat dry and lengthy) report, World Energy Outlook Special Report 2016; Energy and Air Pollution. I recently discussed the report on an every-other-Monday debate I participate in on CBC's flagship business program The Exchange. As I mentioned in that discussion, I welcome this report, as it directs the world's attention to what I believe, and have always believed, is a huge source of human suffering and environmental degradation.Conventional air pollution (soot, acidic chemicals, ozone) on the scale seen in developing countries causes massive suffering, sickness and death.Fixing that should be a global priority.Yet we have, in recent years, been so focused on climate change impacts in the distant future, that we have lost focus on the reality that conventional pollution is killing millions of people today. According to the IEA, 6.5 million premature deaths every year are attributable to air pollution. The new IEA report makes it fairly clear that where we really need to focus, especially in developing countries, is on conventional pollutants: particulate matter, ozone-forming chemicals and acidic gases such as Sulphur dioxide, with greenhouse-gas reductions being seen as a co-benefit.Another welcome aspect of this report is that it seems pragmatic, shying away from revolutionary ""all renewables"" language, and simply talking about moving to energy production that is less polluting, which realistically speaking involves natural gas, nuclear and hydro power. It also involves some very low-hanging fruit such as installing catalytic converters in vehicles, installing bag-houses and scrubbers on power plants, and switching from coal to natural gas, hydro and nuclear power generation.The report also emphasizes the importance of universal electricity access, and universal access to clean cooking fuels, which are crucial elements of human and environmental protection and empowerment.Of course, as with all things, one has to balance many factors, including the economic. As the IEA report notes, we know how to control conventional air pollution, but it's not without costs. And given that poverty is also a major cause of morbidity and mortality (probably the largest cause). So, phasing in air protections without breaking the economic engines of development is important.And there are always things to quibble about in a report like this. It's fair to ask how mortality is estimated, how benefit-cost analysis is done, when developed countries (like Canada) hit diminishing returns on additional air pollution measures, and all that. But pollution levels are so high in countries like China and India, one doesn't really have to ask whether reducing the pollution levels they experience is worth its costit most likely is.Still, warts and all, it's great to see at least some of our environmental debate return to what is probably the world's greatest environmental challenge: getting clean air to the billions who suffer without it. The IEA is to be complimented on its timely new report, and its restoring conventional air pollution control to its proper place in international policy.",0_0
"As a contributor to the IPCC's 2007 report, I share the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Yet I and many of my peers in the British House of Lords - through our hereditary element the most independent-minded of lawmakers - profoundly disagree on fundamental scientific grounds with both the IPCC and my co-laureate's alarmist movie An Inconvenient Truth, which won this year's Oscar for Best Sci-Fi Comedy Horror.",5_2
"Because science is, or is supposed to be, self-correcting (a thesis is put forth, tested, and ultimately revised on the basis of new data), any misinformation conveyed to the scientific community distorts the entire process. Journals should be more meticulous about requesting reviews of research articles only from bona fide experts who do not have a known bias toward the subject; currently, many journals fail to exercise such due diligence. After qualified, unbiased reviewers have evaluated an article, they should be encouraged to ask probing, detailed questions, and the authors of the submitted article should be required to answer them satisfactorily before a paper is accepted.",0_0
"Theres no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices, and you know, understandably, I think the American people right now have been so focused and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth that, you know, if the message is somehow were going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I dont think anybodys going to go for that. I wont go for that. If, on the other hand, we can shape an agenda that says we can create jobs, advance growth and make a serious dent in climate change and be an international leader, I think thats something that the American people would support.",0_0
"SPPI was on this story nearly three years ago. We notified the publisher of the error. It was admitted to, and we were told it would be corrected. Still waiting.",0_0
"No amount of nimble administration can make up for the sheer unreality of the Waxman-Markey GHG emissions reduction targets. The text of Waxman-Markey endorses the target of holding global CO2 levels to no more than 450 parts per million (ppm)up from about 385 ppm today and rising at present trends to more than 700 ppm by 2100 if nothing is done. To grasp how extraordinary this target is, consider this analysis the International Energy Agency offered in its World Energy Outlook Summary for 2008, released last fall in Paris:",0_0
"Litalia, or better greens A. Pecoraro Scanio, who despite being a small representation of the Italian, blackmailing the government instead chose the expensive solar, that will take us out of the market dellenergia and from any industrial competition.",0_0
"During the winter of 1977, it was snowing in Florida and warm and raining in Alaska.",0_0
"A report published by CBN News noted that, ""The last time the sun was this quiet, North America and Europe suffered through a weather event from the 1600s to the 1800s known as ""Little Ice Age' when the Thames River in London regularly froze solid, and North America saw terrible winters. Crops failed and people starved.""",0_0
Newest Research Proves IPCC Climate Models Wrong: Global Warming Does Not Cause Increased Disaster Losses,5_1
Washington Times: Global Warming's weak links,0_0
"The CFC ban was a perfect pilot for the anthropogenic global warming fraud. It established all the characters: the eco-left NGOs, the environmental ""scientists"" (both real and self-proclaimed), and big industry poised to make huge profits and political control over human choices and behavior. It had buy-ins by governments all over the planet. It was based on an unproven (and probably unprovable) hypothesis. Many industries stood to gain at the expense of consumers. To this day, research continues to be funded to study CFCs in the atmosphere. Most significantly, the ""ozone hole"" hasn't changed appreciably. It remains stable as if we ever really knew what ""stable"" was.",5_2
"Knowing how giant sequoia trees responded to a 500-year warm spell in the past is important because scientists predict that climate change will probably subject the trees to such a warm, dry environment again, said Swetnam, a UA professor of dendrochronology and director of UAs Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research .",0_0
Winter here to stay as snow falls across the country Telegraph,1_3
"Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community. Average temperatures in Britain were nearly 0.6 C higher in the Nineties than in 1960-90, and it is estimated that they will increase by 0.2C every decade over the coming century. Eight of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the Nineties.",0_0
"The project was funded through a $235,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).",0_0
"The sun passes over the equator twice during the year, at the March and September equinoxes. As shown above in Figure 4-40, the sea surface temperatures in the western equatorial Pacific reach their maximums a few months later in May and November. The warm water is basically following the sun, with a lag, as it progresses between hemispheres. As Xiao and Mechoso (2008) describe, and to put it into terms of the data weve presented, the El Nio ebbs as the warm water passes from the western equatorial Pacific into the Southern Hemisphere.",0_0
"So what causes this type of wind shear? It occurs in advance of low pressure areas that form along the boundary between warm and cool air masses. So, anything that increases the frequency of these conditions could lead to more tornadoes.",0_0
"Yes, says JoNova, lets please look at whos funding who in the climate zoo .",0_0
The Clinton Administration claims that the development of energy efficient technologies is the solution to the global warming problem. It also claims that the technologies necessary to meet the targets set under the Kyoto Protocol are already available and just need to be put into use.,0_0
"1. Discovering the specific mechanisms driving decadal variability, in the Pacific and all other the ocean basins, these mechanisms are still unknown or only poorly understood;",0_0
"About $90 billion of those taxpayer funded giveaways went to green energy, which is about as trendy a cause as there is right now. Today, on the thirtieth of June, almost a year and half after the stimulus passed, the Department of Energy has awarded a scant 15% of its green energy stimulus funds. So much for timely.",4_2
"With Southern Europe-Greece, Italy, Spain--facing economic collapse, and unemployment persistently high in America, there is no appetite for another costly round of greenhouse gas reductions at the UN climate change conference in Durban. For those concerned about global warming and climate change, it's time to look at simpler solutions provided by geoengineering.",4_2
"The five researchers investigated clonal diversity, as well as the size structure and longevity of genets (a group of genetically identical individuals), in populations of four arctic-alpine plants ( Carex curvula , Dryas octopetala , Salix herbacea and Vaccinium uliginosum ), in order to evaluate ""their persistence under past climatic oscillations."" This they did by determining the size and number of genets via an analysis of amplified fragment length polymorphisms and a standardized sampling design in several European arctic-alpine populations, where these species dominate the vegetation, while ""genet age was estimated by dividing the size by the annual horizontal size increment from in situ growth measurements.""",0_0
"CERES Data: The top-of atmosphere CERES data is measured by the satellites. On the other hand, the CERES surface data is calculated from the TOA CERES data, plus data from the MODIS and GOES satellites. The calculated surface data is energy balanced, meaning that the surface flows sum up to the TOA flows.",0_0
NIWA issued a response statement regarding the charges leveled by The NZ Climate Science Coalition here:,0_0
"Further, the report concludes that with the pipeline's proposed mitigation measures in place, construction and operation will have no meaningful effect on the U.S. environment, or endangered species",4_5
"I see no basis for any complaint on Osborns part that I had insufficiently acknowledged their concern about root collar inhomogeneity. However, root collar inhomogeneity is hardly the end of the story as inhomogeneity in Briffas population is pervasive. The purlasi sc subpopulation appears as inhomogeneous as the root collar samples, but Briffa seem obtusely unaware of the problem. And while Briffa et al have reported one incident of inhomogeneity, their statistical tools for detecting inhomogeneity are hopelessly inadequate a serious disappointment given that theyve been working on this issue for over a decade. I observed (continuing my original criticism):",0_0
"Regulatory reform does not mean a world without regulations. Instead, the next Administration should address pressing fundamental problems in the current regulatory state. Too many regulations are written on the premise that any amount of risk is too much. Regulatory agencies commonly underestimate or ignore costs, exaggerate environmental benefits, and push constitutional boundaries. Agencies increase the stringency of existing regulations that produce minimal if any environmental benefits. Agencies also use the regulatory process to micromanage customer choices, from the energy efficiency of microwaves to fuel efficiency mandates.",0_0
Muller crunched a bunch of numbers to do with global temperatures andannouncedin theNew York Timesthat he is a converted sceptic. It was this opinion piece in arguably the worlds most influential paper that set tongues wagging about climate change all over again.,0_0
"Oh noes, global warming has changed the flavor of tea . However it tastes, it cannot be worse than Earl Grey.",0_0
"The GEF is a program under the World Bank that was created to pacify environmentalist critics of World Bank spending. The green fund shields the World Bank from such criticisms by paying for energy and land use restrictions in poor countries. Some of its projects implement the Kyoto Protocol, while others implement another U.N. treaty on ""biological diversity"" that the Senate has not ratified.",0_0
"His supervisor added: ""I can only see one impact of your comments given where we are in the process, and that would be a very negative impact on our office.""",0_0
"Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not sure that it is reasonable to get on one's high horse complaining about somebody who prefers to look at, you know, actual data rather than the outpourings of a mathematical model.",5_1
Snow as the first week of April drew a close was still extensive across Canada and Asia. It remains well above the normal as it did the entire winter.,1_3
"Now the experiment is unraveling, having barely begun. As the parade of government-subsidized failures like Solyndra, Stirling Energy, SpectraWatt, Evergreen Solar, Beacon Power, and others mount, now is a good time to look at how all the pieces of the alternative energy puzzle are supposed to fit togetherand what happens when they dont.",0_0
"What the researchers found was that the observed temperature trends calculated from periods ranging from 10 to 32 years all lie below the average trend of the same length projected by a large family of climate models (Fig. 2). Each climate model includes some representation of some of the processes which lead to ?natural? (random) variability (processes such as El Nio/La Nia, volcanic eruptions, solar variability?note that not all models include all of these processes throughout the entire 1979-2010 period of study). As the time period over which the temperature trend is calculated increases, the impact of natural variability on the magnitude (and even the sign) of the trend decreases as the short-term temperature deviations caused by random variability tend to cancel out.",0_0
California sea level data. Click image to start animation in a new window.,0_0
(10) When it is being used to justify dramatic political or economic policies.,0_0
Lets start by looking at NOAA s graph of stronger EF3+ tornadoes.,0_0
Current understanding assumes that climate response to solar radiative forcing is thermodynamic,0_0
Nuccitelli gets a bruising by the factual hand of Monckton,0_0
"Louisiana has lost considerable coastal marshland as a result of human intervention. Flood control dams and levees prevent swollen rivers from picking up silt, and dredging to keep the coastal waterways open move the silt from its natural place, leading to erosion of the coastal shallows. According to this Tulane.edu paper:",0_0
"But heres the problem. As Fig. 1 shows, until World War II, Anchorage was a very sleepy village of a few thousand. Since then the population has skyrocketed. But the homogeneity adjustment does not match this in any sense. The homogeneity adjustment is a straight line (albeit one with steps ...why steps? ... but I digress). The adjustment starts way back in 1926 ... why would the 1926 Anchorage temperature need any adjustment at all? And how does this adjust for UHI?",5_1
"Although the oceans have experienced less warming overall, plants and animals need to move as quickly in the sea as they do on land to keep up with their preferred environments.",0_0
"It should be noted that a 50 percent increase in resource availability is not a ""pie-in-the-sky"" fantasy. U.S. petroleum production in 2015 was about 50 percent higher than the projection the EIA made for 2015 in 2008. Natural gas production in 2015 was about 40 percent higher than the EIA's 2008 projection. The comparative pessimism on the part of the EIA was largely due to not fully appreciating the impacts of smart drilling technology and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) at that time.",0_0
"Look, folks, the ugly truth is that the world is awash with fossil fuels. To start with, The largest single concentration of fossil energy on the planet is the Powder River coal formation in the Northern US. The world has several hundred years worth of coal. The Canadians have huge amounts of oil of course it too is called unconventional oil, because it alone is enough to blow the peak oil claims out of the water. Plus now we have the tight oil, oil in the rocks that is, of course, unconventional.",0_0
"The small-business protections proposed in the Tailoring Rule are temporary, legally dubious, and incomplete. Even if courts uphold the Tailoring Rule, despite its flouting of clear statutory language, it will not avert the most absurd result of the Court's misreading of the CAA: regulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) program.",4_1
"But what if this dynasty is built on a foundation of errors, miscalculations, and exaggerations or worse: on manipulation, fabrication, and fraud? The house of cards would tumble down, the catechism of climate cataclysm would go the way of other vanished religions, and the power and money train would derail.",0_0
"""We humans are creating the conditions for our own extinction as a species,"" Pachirat told his students Dec. 30, shortly before the last day of class. He also stated that meat eaters contribute to global warming, because eating animals shows that ""we are living in a period of more suffering than the world has ever known.""",0_0
"America is a fracking cornucopia of crude oil, independent of the rapacious OPEC cartel. And has an inexhaustible supply of natural gas, putting us in a position to become a major exporter able to use its gas reserves as a geopolitical weapon. Take that, King Abdullah and Vladimir Putin. Too good to be true? You bet.",4_5
"A bus company's efforts to cut global warming emissions have led to services being disrupted by cold weather. First Eastern Counties Buses, which runs services in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, said bio-diesel had turned waxy in sub-zero temperatures. The thicker consistency of the diesel meant fuel lines became blocked. The company said it had suspended use of the bio-diesel, and was refuelling buses with ultra low-sulphur diesel which is not temperature sensitive.",0_0
"Muller was never a sceptic, and there are plenty of rusted on believers who have problems with both Manns hockey stick and AIT , which is nothing more than a propaganda film. Mullers subsequent evidence-free claim of attribution to human causes has led to widespread ridicule from within the warmist community.",5_2
"AccuWeather.com: Global Warming News, Science, Myths, Articles 2. The very thin blue area (lowering sea height) off the U.S. East Coast could be due to a decadal change in the average latitude or velocity of the Gulf Stream current.",0_0
"If Sandy had been a category 3 hurricane like its 1938 ancestor, the devastation would have been of biblical proportions as winds, waves and surges slammed into expensive homes, businesses and high-rises, and roared up waterways rendered progressively narrower by hundreds of construction projects.",0_0
The EUs legislation means all airlines operating in EU airports must have their CO2 emissions regulated.,0_0
"For the hindcast period of 1861 to 2005, the model mean of the outgoing longwave radiation declines at a rate of about -0.1 watts/m^2/decade. The model with the slowest decline during the hindcast has a trend of about -0.02 watts/m^2/decade, while the model with the fastest decline from 1861-2005 has a trend of about -0.17 watts/m^2/decade. That is, theres a spread of about 0.15 watts/m^2/decade during the hindcast.",0_0
"In a sense President Obama's State of the Union remarks are right. The Climate Change debate is over because there never was one. How do you debate whether the sun rises from the East in the morning. And we can leave our children's children a safer, more stable world with abundant energy suppliesdevelop our vast resources of inexpensive fossil fuelscoal, oil, and natural gas. Abandoning these resources by substituting renewable energy sourcesthat are uneconomical, unreliable, and difficult to produce vast energy amountsleaves our children's children a bankrupt nation unable to exert strength on global affairs.",0_0
"In eight months, the Obama administration has given a clearer indication of its policy outlook; the Canadian and Mexican governments, in power longer, have done the same. Yet, we might call these ""unilateral"" policy agendas since coordination among the three countries has been sparse.",0_0
"The analysis relies totally on the accuracy of path width and length data. While this may now be reasonably accurate, past data is highly suspect.",5_1
"If you install the panels yourself, you'll get the ""Fits"" for yourself as well as the reduced energy bills: note that, nuts as it may sound to the average tax payer, you get paid for all the electricity you produce even if you use it yourself.",0_0
"Subsidies are extremely generous and guarantee investors an almost 10 per cent annual return for 20 years. Given such an unparalleled offer, it is not surprising that more than a million families already have installed solar panels. This solar boom, however, has saddled the country with obligations of more than ?130bn in subsidies, leading to ever increasing energy prices.",4_4
"From the University of California Riverside , and the department of sulfurous odors, comes this it must be carbon dioxide moment:",0_0
"Let me seize this brief gap in the aerial bombardment to pose a question that is bugging me. Why did the Met Office forecast a ""mild winter""?",0_0
"James Hansen, a fully-paid-up member of the new regime, has notoriously called for anyone who disagrees with the new superstition to be put on trial for ?high crimes against humanity?. Now, crimes against humanity are punishable by death, as Saddam Hussein discoveredt. So what Hansen is asking for is the judicial murder of those of his fellow-citizens who disagree with him ? one of the unfailing hallmarks of Nazism and Fascism everywhere.",0_0
"GDP, with all it's shortcomings, is at least useful for showing the development of the GDP/Tax pressure ratio, over time, and in comparison with other countries. Adding new, rather shaky variables seems like little more than inventing another tool for the politicians to polish their statistics.",0_0
"First, pessimism about growth often increases in times of economic difficulty. Many conclude that anemic growth, and certainly economic contraction, shows that natural limits constrain rising prosperity. The recent financial crisis and consequent economic downturn have certainly strengthened the forces of austerity.",0_0
Designing Global Climate Policy: Efficient Markets versus Political Markets,0_0
When Heritage evaluated the FUND and DICE models it was clear that the resulting SCC estimates were very sensitive to the choice of discount rates and equilibrium climate sensitivity.,0_0
"Genuine scientific inquiry has brought us the wonders of modern medicine, the green revolution in agriculture, the internet, and countless enhancements of the human condition in all its aspects. We can't allow the global warmerstruly the flat-earthers of the late 20th centuryto steal that precious inheritance. Scientists and researchers really dedicated to their mission should rise up in protest against global warming hysteria, saving science from the dead hand of politics and restoring it to its proper place in the pantheon of human achievement.",5_2
"trend error -0.03 0.04 0.03 0.08, C / decade (95% confidence interval)",0_0
"Nor is it ethical or sensible for President Obama to ask Saudi Arabia to send us more oil, rather than telling his energy and environment regulators to foster more production here at home.",0_0
"According to Entine, the last year has seen a realization among many in the media that the case against GMOs is without merit. The European Union is moving toward allowing more of the technology, and even India will soon allow GMO trials. The New Yorker recently ran an article that was critical of anti-GMO crusader Vandana Shiva, and even Mother Jones's series of articles dealing with the safety of GMO foods did not find much to worry about. Entine references a recent article in an Italian science journal, compiling some 1,783 studies done in the last decade about biotechnology. Researchers found ""little to no evidence"" that GM crops have a negative environmental impact on their surroundings.",0_0
German Professor: 2014 Arctic Sea Ice Melt Falls Below Long-Term Mean North Atlantic Heat Content Plummets!,1_1
"It is tempting to play the crusader, to make some moral, if futile stand in defense of our current thermostat setting. But we must be realistic. There is little hope of creating an enforceable global carbon constraint, and without the existence of such a regime, there is little point in surrendering our national economy to green adventures.",0_0
"India is planning a massive increase in clean coal power capacity, as it struggles to meet growing demand for power.",0_0
"Those people in the 1940s defending their perverse Nazi ideals. Their heirs in 2011 are only protecting their dirty profits and the anti-human propaganda that makes them possible. I urge all people who have some power to look into this business, to investigate, and if the reports are confirmed, do everything they can to execute the people driving and benefiting from this carbon-neutral genocide.",0_0
"""The cost of destroying the personal data collected under the ill-starred programme will be a mere 400,000, Home Office minister Damian Green revealed yesterday.""",0_0
"Oil Spills, Gas and other Leaks & Consequences",0_0
"But here comes our favorite set of conclusions. Mackay writes Diatom census data and reconstructions of snow accumulation suggest that changes in the influence of the Siberian High in the Lake Baikal region started as early as c. 1750 AD, with a shift from taxa that bloom during autumn overturn to assemblages that exhibit net growth in spring (after ice break-up). The data here mirror instrumental climate records from Fennoscandia for example, which also show over the last 250 years positive temperature trends and increasing early summer Siberian temperature reconstructions. Warming in the Lake Baikal region commenced before rapid increases in greenhouse gases, and at least initially, is therefore a response to other forcing factors such as insolation changes during this period of the most recent millennial cycle.",2_1
"Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, global warming was the Left's last, best chance to redistribute wealth for a supposedly greater cause. When global warming, too, collapses, will they go gently into that good night?",4_1
"/s/ Manfred (Dutch) von Ehrenfried JSC, Flight Controller; Mercury, Gemini & Apollo, MOD, 10 years",0_0
"John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, who with his colleague Roy Spencer compiles the satellite temperature record, commented that Santer's ""model shows that increasing tropopause heights are due in good measure to human factors for 1979-99. However, the real world shows a huge tropospheric temperature spike due to the 1997-98 El Nino which then tilts the tropopause height trend upward. So what causes the height increase in the model and in the data are likely two different causes.""",5_1
"It is estimated that the average Briton produces around 8.6 tons of carbon dioxide a year, while the average Indian produces just over one ton.",0_0
"In conclusion, three factors seem to be playing a role in the range changes of nesting Elegant Terns. (i) The success of conservation measures in the terns nesting grounds both in Mexico and California has allowed an increased population growth of the species, and the exponential increase in the Isla Rasa colony in particular seems to be pushing reproductive pairs onto new nesting grounds in California. (ii) Superimposed on this systematic and continuous expansion, there is a pulse-like variation in local SST conditions in the Midriff, which seems to drive nesting pairs to emigrate toward California when surface seawater in the Midriff is too warm , the thermocline is too deep, and fish availability is poor. (iii) The decision by seabirds to abandon their traditional nesting grounds in the Midriff is compounded by the fishing effort during the previous season, which further increases the proportion of Elegant Terns migrating away from the Gulf of California.",0_0
"The OIC, it will be remembered, was created by Saudi Arabia in 1969 as a weapon against the Egypt-led Arab League in the ongoing Arab Cold Wars. In recent years, under the leadership of the OIC, the UN has turned into UN-istan:",0_0
"Apparently not. At least, not yet. There was no sign of renunciation of Gingrich's belief in climate change on his campaign website.",0_0
"During the past few weeks, a series of articles in the press have implied that Willie Soon, a well-known global-warming skeptic, had violated ethical standards by failing to disclose information about research funding.",0_0
"If you actually go to Mann et al 2005 to see how it supposedly supports the claims here, youll not find much that actually supports any of the claims. The context is a ""tame network"" like the one that I discussed in connection with the VZ pseudoproxies a little while ago. Like VZ erik167, they constructed pseudoproxies from gridcells information from a GCM mixed with equal amounts of white noise a ""tame"" network. Most of the article is about ""CPS"" methods i.e. averaging scaled versions of the series. If you know that the proxies all have equal amounts of white noise, this system works pretty well and is probably as good as you can get. Heres the description of their setup in Mann et al 2005:",0_0
Simmering just below the headlines is the push-pull over the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for Wind energy that expired at the end of 2013.,0_0
"6) Christopher Booker: Chris Huhne Has A Blueprint For A Green, Cold, Dark Britain",0_0
"And California's AB32 has created 'green jobs,' at the expense of many more real jobs .",4_1
17h. The ability of regional climate models to model sea level rise for the next 50 years,0_0
"The frequency of tornadoes in the US is approaching a record low in 2014, after setting new record lows in both 2013 and 2012.",1_7
"The people of the United States need to understand that the production of fossil fuels is a manufacturing process. Production of 1,000 tons of coal, 330 barrels of oil, or 6 million cubic feet of natural gas is the same as producing a $30,000 car, 7,000 bushels of corn, or 15,000 two-dollar hamburgers. Millions of high paying jobs are created, billions of tax and royalty payments are paid, and security and safety will increase for all our citizens.",4_5
"So what enormous benefits would this non-impacting regulatory check on climate change actually serve? According to McCarthy, local governments would avoid tens of billions of dollars in damage from floods and other severe-weather events, while farmers would save up to $11 billion a year in damage from a combination of drought, flooding, and destructive storms.",0_0
"Ladies & Gentleman, mankind is in danger. The threat is real. Unless we, gathered here together resolve to take action there will be real and dire consequences. Never before in my lifetime has the danger been so real, so close, so palpable. The threat, however, is not from man-made global warming, but from man-made hysteria. Yesterday, some 10,000 delegates representing over 180 nations flew into this lovely city for the start of the United Nations conference on Climate Change. They represent the greatest threat to the health, safety, and standard of living for all mankind since the fall of twentienth century totalitarianism.",5_2
"Feldstein, who serves on Obama's economic advisory board, has also ""warned of serious inflation and higher taxes down the road"" as a result of Obama's policies.",4_1
"Taylor Comment on ""Understanding Conservative Religious Resistance to Climate Science""",0_0
"I would like to contact Dr. Scheckman directly. His characterization of Drs. Happer and Chou is hardly accurate. My last collaboration with Dr. Chou was over 7 years ago, and he has had no connection with the present research. Dr. Happer, although not a climate scientist (as, for example, is also the case with Anderson), is deeply involved in general spectroscopic issues. Four of the suggested reviewers are well known proponents of global warming alarm, and I don?t think it likely that they would provide a fair assessment. An alternative reviewer with a long and neutral record in this field is Albert Arking (of Johns Hopkins) who would be far more suitable. Of those mentioned by Scheckman, Ramanathan is the most likely to be fair.",5_2
"A remarkable piece of advice when one considers that Edenhofers boss, Schellnhuber, had claimed earlier that the Himalayan glacier melt by 2035 was certainty.",0_0
"Temperatures in Greenland reach their annual maximum this week. The rapid melting at -12C threatens all coastal cities particularly the ones wherewomen, transgender and poor people live.",0_0
"There are people who just need a cause thats bigger than themselves, said Happer. Then they can feel virtuous and say other people are not virtuous.",0_0
"A major part of the expansion into wind will be at offshore sites that are comparatively costly to build and maintain, compared with onshore sites and many other energy sources.",4_4
"It is believed that Australia has joined Japan, Canada and Russia in wanting changes to a proposed agreement that says greenhouse cuts should be informed by advice that the developed world needs to cut emissions by 25-40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.",0_0
Google Solar Project: Google Invests $168 Million In Mojave Power Plant:,0_0
"The Wilkins Runway is constructed out of glacial ice, the original intent had been ... operations and improve protection of the ice surface from pitting and melting.",0_0
"What further complicates the situation, is that scientists like all people, come to opposing conclusions. In the case of politics, choosing the right scientists affects the outcome far more than actually committing fraud. Fraud is not the keystone of a good conspiracy, subtleties of choice are.",5_2
"Moreover, an average global temperature can only be diagnosed; it cannot be directly measured. The approach has been to sample air temperatures across the globe in order to construct a global average surface temperature trend. However, there is a major problem with the use of the sampling of surface air temperature trends as is discussed below, for example, for nighttime minimum temperatures over land (which are used as part of the construction of the global average trend).",5_1
"Expanding domestic U.S. oil and gas production and exports would aid EU workers and families, while also improving America's gross domestic product, balance of trade, national security, job growth, and prestige. Contrary to what some have argued, American consumers would also benefit, because exports would help stabilize global supplies and prices, keep OPEC and Russian price hikers at bay, and make the United States less reliant on imports and less vulnerable to supply disruptions.",0_0
"In May 2012, I did a quick calculation incorporating more recent Hantemirov data, showing that the resulting modern portion was remarkably similar (TM-climate science) to the green chronology of my September 2009 and had an almost identical discrepancy to the Briffa et al superstick.",0_0
"Studies show that even areas that have previously been degraded or completely deforested can have their biodiversity restored. And according to de Miranda, they can even more importantly attain a ""new agricultural transformation to recover their biological and production potential.""",0_0
Frequency Of 90 Degree Days Plummeting In The US Midwest,1_7
"Also, it is silly to pretend that Cullen is simply asking for meteorologists to receive additional scientific training. Instead of citing a climatology textbook, she says, ""One good resource if you don't have a lot of time is the Pew Center's Climate Change 101."" The Pew Center is an advocacy organization that lists toward alarm and energy rationing. Virginia State Climatologist Patrick Michaels is an outstanding expert, but would he pass a politically-correct test on global warming? Only if he suppressed his real views.",0_0
"4. North Dakota Building Boom. The number of building permits issued for single-family homes in North Dakota skyrocketed in May to 818, establishing a new record monthly high that was more than 57% above the previous record of 510 permits issued in April 2013, see chart above.",0_0
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) in 2011 re-predicted sea levels rises would result in 50 million climate refugees by the year 2020. This is likely to be another - Very large Error,0_0
"BBC News: ""Show Your Working': What ""ClimateGate' means",0_0
"Fracking is going on under my own home, my whole town, and much of my home state. We're surrounded by thousands of fracked oil and gas wells, and my family and I drink the water every day. If I thought it was unsafe I would not be living on top of it.",0_0
"I've now had a change to review the S&TSC; report into Climategate, which is pretty much as expected. Here are a few thoughts.",0_0
"This is not science; this is not data; this is not research. It is fraud, nothing more, nothing less transparent, obvious fraud.",5_2
"The scientists found the years from 800 to 1300, known as the Medieval Warm Period, had the most frequent fires in the 3,000 years studied. Other research has found that the period from 800 to 1300 was warm and dry.",2_1
The Outlook for Modeling Clouds (Adequately) ... is Still Cloudy,0_0
Unilaterally cutting U.S. emissions would be pointless and would handicap negotiators in any effort to reach an agreement with developing economies like China and India.,4_2
Study: Natural gas should stay cheap for a long time,0_0
"Between 2007 and 2008, devastating heat and tick infestations cause Isle Royale moose population to only increase by 68%",0_0
"This value falls within the uncertainty range of the Leob et al 2012 study. However, we are 13 years since the end of the 20th century, so Jim Hansens value for the imbalance must be larger (~0.95 Watts per meter squared from GISS?).",0_0
"The IPCC says it will ""probably"" issue a formal correction. ""Probably?""",5_2
"If energy-poor nations are serious about safeguarding their future development, they should reject ""voluntary commitments"" and not give faint-hearted Kyoto foes in the U.S. any excuse to switch sides. By the same token, congressional and business opponents of Kyoto should stress the vital importance of energy abundance to human welfare, and applaud, or at least refrain from criticizing, developing countries that correctly view poverty (not climate change) as the greatest threat to their people's safety and survival.",0_0
"But if anything, the spill should demonstrate the need both to reduce our dependence on oil and to focus yet again on environmental policy. Of course, Congress needs to get to the bottom of the causes of the spill, including whether Norway's requirement of acoustic valves on offshore equipment should be required here. But it also needs a redoubled focus on climate change and a willingness to turn to natural gas as a more environmentally safe choice for our energy as a way to reduce our consumption of and dependence on oil.",0_0
"(1) expressed that there is tillrckligt erknt of climate research that the models do not r tillrckligt validated, the oskerheten in the climate system knslighet has been set for HGT, and the queries that arises on account of the lngsamma warming the past 17 clean and p Due to Growth of Antarctic sea ice has not been treated tillrckligt openly and with tillrckligt seriously.",5_1
"For the Earth, the issue with equation 12.1 is how to interpret Te and n. There is no simple way to deconvolute the gaseous greenhouse effect from the radiative emission from clouds.Postmas proposed model doesnt help at all with the Earth, because of the complex coupling between the radiation and dynamics. Which is why a dynamicalclimate model with interactive radiative transfer, water vapor and clouds is needed to get insights much beyondEquation 12.1. Which is what climate scientists have been doing for several decades.",0_0
"Because of the effect of high (beta) error, careful scientists rarely interpret failed to reject as confirming a hypothesis that has not been supported by very large amounts of historical data and sound theory with very few approximation or assumptions. While the theory of AGW is well supported, it is not clear to me that the specific quantitative predictions by the IPCC are, by extension, supported with equal strength.",0_0
"Those basic guidelines are patently ignored today, as countless examples demonstrate beyond doubt.",0_0
"As the data referred to for this review has obviously been assembled, why has it not been made available?",0_0
Fact : we already know how to teleport single ions of calcium and beryllium .,0_0
"The Great Game at sea is too complex to be examined in detail here. Suffice it to say that if in terms of transportation, the true identity of the players takes forever to sort out (the nationalities of the owner, the crew, the flag, the cargo), there is a clear trend in the nationalization of oil companies when it comes to production: ""The percentage of the world's oil reserves held by publicly traded international oil companies (IOCs) has declined, while the percentage held by state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) has increased. Currently, 72 percent of the world's proven oil reserves are held by NOC's .""27",0_0
"So only two out of the six divisions have recorded an increase, and only one of these is more than the 0.4F announced by NOAA for the whole of Virginia.",0_0
"Hong Kong and Singapore finish far lower in the prosperity rankings than they do in the more economically based indices of the Wall Street Journal/Heritage Foundation or of the Cato Institute/Fraser Institute, which tend to rank them first and second. But in a less severe version of the problem for China above, these countries lack personal freedom and democracy and, as a result, finish eighteenth and twenty-third, respectively, in the Prosperity Index. With due respect to the more economically weighted indices, and given that economic growth is of prime concern to developing nations in particular, weighting the more measurably definitive economic subindices more heavily is a useful experiment and one that is arguably justifiable from a policy perspective. As an experiment, double weighting the two direct economic indicators in the Prosperity Index does make a difference for some countries' performance. For instance, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom would all rise one place in the rankings, and the United States would move up two, but the biggest movers would be China (up fourteen places) and Russia (up eleven).",0_0
New paper discovers a 'major source' of alkalinity that might protect reefs from 'acidification',3_2
"The per capita GDP growth rates for the reference scenarios listed by the IWG ranged from 1.58 percent to 2.03 percent per year with an average of 1.8 percent per year. On the other hand the Maddison Project estimates per capita GDP levels for the U.S. that grew only 1.56 percent per year from 1800 to 2000. Over those same two centuries the real compounded annual rate of return in U.S. stock markets has been a ""remarkably stable"" 6.8 percent per year. It would be reasonable to assign an even higher projected rate of return on capital in an environment where growth is projected to be in excess of 1.56 percent.",0_0
"Over the last several years, I have worried that the FourthAmendmentis rapidly heading in the same direction. This week has been a bad week.",0_0
"In other words, you can get any number you wantfrom a negligible $1 per ton to a huge $100/ton of carbon-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.",0_0
"Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, we now know that the assertion was correct. The Obama administration produced this denunciation at the behest of, and with the active participation of, the wind energy's lobby.",0_0
"Things have apparently gotten a little bit more interesting in CDMS. Now, those eight silicon detectors have seen three events. But it's not just the number of events that is somewhat higher now. The late 2009 events could have been interpreted as background rather easily. The three new 2013 events are claimed to be substantially further from the background appearance.",0_0
"The Chinese icebreaker trying to reach a Russian-flagged expedition vessel trapped for the past four days in frozen Antarctic ice is now also now stuck in the ice,says CNN News.",0_0
"Steve Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and is the author of ""Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them"" (Regnery 2009).",0_0
"What I like about this flow direction is that Sequim is way wetter than Seattle. What I don't like is that there will be a lot of warm rain falling on the limited snow in the Cascade. Stevens Pass opened for limited skiing today, with a 17 inch base. Baker opened as well. Bring old skis.",0_0
"As already discussed, for GHG controls to yield net benefits at all, they must be fairly moderate. In that case, the total benefits of controls, although positive, are also modest. In this regard, GHG controls contrast sharply with the control of ozone-depleting chemicals. With the latter, optimal controls yielded quite large net benefits. The much smaller net gain available from GHG control restricts the range of options for deal making.",0_0
"The snowfall came as a major test of patience for Muscovites, who have endured an unusually long and cold winter.",1_3
"The Associated Press: SAfrica: PRETORIA, South Africa South Africa says it and other developing countries won't consider the next round of climate change talks successful unless rich nations pay up. ... Alf Wills, a top South African environmental official, summed up the position: ""No money, no deal."" South Africa, more industrialized than most on the continent, is Africa's main carbon emitter. California: Frost damage hampers peach crop Peaches - The 2009 California Freestone peach crop forecast is 350 thousand tons, down 5% from the June forecast, and 19% below the 2008 crop . Bearing acres are estimated at 28.0 thousand. California experienced an adequate number of chilling hours, thus benefiting the Freestone crop. Freezing temperatures hit California in early March, which resulted in frost damage in some areas. Frost damage, along with a decrease in the bearing acres, have resulted in a forecasted lower production for the 2009 crop. How is America going to end? We could be crushed by a climate strongman. - By Josh Levin - Slate Magazine Even if America sells its soul to keep everyone else out, the country will have to contract. The Great Plains could turn into a Sahara-style wasteland. Cities like New Orleans and Miamiand maybe Boston and New Yorkcould be abandoned once recurrent storms and rising sea levels render them too expensive to save. ... ...As more people pack into a smaller space, scarce resources will become scarcer. Those who stick it out in the inhospitable hinterlands could become a new generation of pioneers, heroes and innovators who work to once again make this territory hospitable for the masses. Or these die-hard localists could become impoverished and estranged from Americasurvivalist guerrillas who fight and scrounge for whatever they can get.",0_0
"Empirical evidence suggests it is dynamic, rather than (or as well) as thermodynamic",0_0
"Turning to another facet of energy policy that the greens oppose, Mr. Obama even said that ""we're going to have to make some tough decisions about opening up new offshore areas for oil and gas development,"" implying that the country can expect an announcement along those lines soon. Domestic oil and gas development are another sector of well-paying jobs for blue collar workers that cannot be outsourced to Canada, Mexico, or China.",4_5
"Lobsters could provide a warning sign regarding the effects of climate change in the ocean, according to a scientist.",0_0
JC comment: The first sentence of the abstract really caught my attention: Given that over the course of the next 1030 years the magnitude of natural decadal variations may rival that of anthropogenically forced climate change on regional scales I dont recall the climate establishment giving this one before. The implications of this is that the warming between 1970 or 1980 to 2000 should be operating under the same givens also.,2_1
"Carbon Prices, Elizabeth Warren, and the Pledge to America",0_0
Lawrence Solomon: Anglosphere leads on global warming,0_0
"It is a proven technique. It is behind the expression I am sure you have heard that something is above politics or too important to be left to the politicians, with politicians themselves sometimes being the worst culprits of all in advocating that decisions they should make are in fact determined by others. Politicians who bemoan the loss of respect for their calling should remember that every time they allow themselves to be browbeaten by the alleged views of experts they contribute further to that loss of respect.",0_0
"German Analysis: ""Current Warm Period Is No Anthropogenic Product"" Major Natural Cycles Show No Signs Of Warming!",2_1
55. Comments about climate change made by environmental activist groups are generally? (from very inaccurate to very accurate),0_0
"But the deeper we dig the more we uproot our so-called tree-ring expert. In Mann's lavish 13,465-word online rsum the word ""tree' appears only 6 times. By comparison the word ""ocean' appears 37 times. Even his doctoral dissertation makes not one reference to trees-its all about oceans. Clearly, our Michael is not a Mann enamored by tree ring research.",0_0
You cant promote yourself and your work in the media and them claim my critics turned me into a public figure.,0_0
"These steps will be opposed by President Obama, many Democrats,and members of the climate crisis and renewable energy complex.",0_0
"The question that Im wondering about: do we know that mid-Holocene warmth was only in summer and only in the northern hemisphere, and, if so, how do we know it? Im not going to consider high-latitude NH evidence, as that does not appear to be in issue. At some point I might re-visit the question of whether we know that it was only in summer, but for now, Im going to focus on the topics and the SH. A recent survey of NH northern sites from 0-180W (Kaufman et al 2004) and results would be similar for 0-180E stated:",0_0
CSM: Halt the Gold Rush to Corn Fuel,0_0
"Tyvrr lr not that hot when the weather be all week, but soon everything is back to normal. A few conversations about the climate, I have not had time NNU and dessvrre I fear that even in this selected sllskap of engineers and mathematicians sr the f ifrgasatt what we FTT hear since 20 years back. I will nd to make a small frsk the coming days to find out on what the participants have hr from view. It will be interesting, but I is not alltfr optimistic.",0_0
"?It works like this. Environmental and consumer advocacy groups file a lawsuit claiming that the federal government has failed to meet a deadline or has not satisfied some regulatory requirement. The agency can then either choose to defend itself against the lawsuit or settle it. Often times, it settles by putting in place a ?court-ordered? regulation desired by the advocacy group, thus circumventing the proper rulemaking channels and basic transparency and accountability standards.?",0_0
"Now you will understand why I have already initiated the process of having Abraham hauled up before whatever academic panel his Bible College can muster, to answer disciplinary charges of wilful academic dishonesty amounting to gross professional misconduct unbecoming a member of his profession.",0_0
"GlobalDatas senior power analyst Sowmyavadhana Srinivasan said Indias electricity demand was being driven by its increasing population and industrialization, improved standard of living, and strong economic growth.",0_0
"Kjorven Goal #2: ""Convert at least 40 percent of agricultural lands to ecologically sustainable production, with minimized use of agro-chemicals, and expanded use of techniques that reduce soil erosion and run-off and that maintain high levels of biodiversity.""",0_0
"Moreover, the best estimate the IPCC gives in AR5 for total aerosol forcing is not fully based on observations. It is an expert judgement based on a composite of estimates derived from simulations by global climate models and from satellite observations. The nine satellite-observation-derived aerosol forcing estimates featured in Figure 7.19 of AR5 WGI range from 0.09 W/m 2 to 0.95 W/m 2 , with a mean of 0.65 W/m 2 . Of these, six satellite studies with a mean best estimate of 0.78 W/m 2 were taken into account in deciding on the 0.9 W/m 2 AR5 composite best estimate of total aerosol forcing.",0_0
"""Why are many European carmakers now planning to build electric vehicles? Because many European cities are widely expected to ban high-emissions vehicles from their city cores over the next decade--perhaps even vehicles with any emissions at all.""",0_0
"That gave a handy excuse to environmental groups and climate change deniers to dredge up the video ad (above) that Gingrich recorded for Al Gore's climate action campaign in 2008. As if the Gore connection were not damaging enough, in Tea Party eyes, Gingrich shares a sofa with the former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.. . .Now Climate Depot, the website run by a former aide to the arch-denier, Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, is trying to force Gingrich to issue a public apology.",0_0
Ceding that power to unelected global authorities would be a hard sell even if the science was sound (which it isn't). Buying into that power transfer in exchange for a vague promise of fmancial relief doesn't make sense for any.American business.,0_0
virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer . . . . o prevent,0_0
"Daily crop heat units are calculated from these min and max temperatures. There are separate calculations for day and night. The daytime relationship uses 10 C (50 F) as the base temperature and 30 C (86 F) as the optimum because warm-season crops do not develop when daytime temperatures fall below 10 C and they develop fastest at about 30 C. The nighttime relationship uses 4.4 C (40 F) as the base temperature and does not specify an optimum temperature because nighttime minimum temperatures very seldom exceed 25 C in Ontario. The nighttime relationship is a straight line on the graph (Figure 1),while the daytime relationship is a curve that records greater crop heat units at 30 C than at higher or lower temperatures. Daily crop heat units are calculated by using the average of the two daily values from the equations given in Figure 1 or they can be read from the matrix in Appendix I.",0_0
"The new monument is only located 130 miles off the New England coast, and it's been a commercial fishing hotspot for decades. Fishing companies actually supported increased marine life protections, but just wanted it deep enough so they could still fish there.",0_0
"in the same way, its reputation was at risk. It might be publicly exposed. In",0_0
"Tesla's electric cars and the solar panels produced by his other company, Solar City, are part of a necessary transformation away from fossil fuels and to renewable energy.",0_0
"That's only the beginning. While previously touting natural gas as a lower emission bridge fuel to renewables, Sierra Club's ""Beyond Dirty Fuels"" campaign leader Lena Moffitt told S&P; Global Market Intelligence: ""We are doing everything we can to bring the same expertise that we brought to taking down the coal industry and coal-fired power in this country to taking on gas in the same way.""",0_0
"With no fossil fuels to fall back on, the 58GW required to fill the gap could only logically come from offshore wind. This would mean a 15-fold increase in offshore wind capacity from current levels.",0_0
"In awkward juxtaposition, Als beloved Grist issued a correction for an article on West Virginia. And then another one, because Grist doesnt know where West Virginia is , but it can tell you what to think about the climate.",0_0
"So, yes, the outlook for adequately modeling clouds and cloud processes, after all these years of trying, must still be characterized as cloudy .",0_0
Influence of Elevated CO2 on Rubisco Content in Leaves of Wheat,0_0
"ABCs MARGOT ONEILL: The research stakes are high. Antarctica is one of the great engines driving the worlds oceans, winds and weather, especially in Australia. But theres ominous signs of climate change.",0_0
"Theres some interesting information of the six month trend of neutrons being detected globally that I want to bring to discussion, but first I thought that a primer on cosmic rays, neutrons, and their interaction with the atmosphere might be helpful to the many layman readers here. Anthony",0_0
"As it happens, economist Greg Mankiw again makes the case, via his New York Times column last weekend, that a Pigovian carbon tax is the most economically efficient way certainly as compared to government mandates for the US reduce to climate-altering carbon emissions. Mankiw:",0_0
"The risk of violent tornadoes appears to be increasing. The tornadoes in Oklahoma City on May 31 and the 2011 tornadoes in Joplin, Mo., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., suggest that tornadoes may be getting stronger.",0_0
"Ive run my own version of ground truthing on the CERES surface data by comparing it to the surface temperature data I was using previously. Differences were small overall, and both sets shows the same small details and fluctuations.",0_0
"ICAO is working on a market-based systemif ICAO can bring this forward for adoption, we are willing to adapt our legislation, Delbeke said in an interview in Florence.",0_0
"So unusual is this attempt to actually meet us in argument, and so venomously ad-hominem are Abraham's artful puerilities, that climate-extremist bloggers everywhere have circulated them and praised them to the warming skies.",0_0
New article about klimatknslighet pvisar inconsistencies in UN climate report,5_2
"""Tell me what Salon says about the polar bear scene.""",0_0
"Flashback: Top Democrats Warn Low Snow Levels Prove Global Warming (Video) ""Watch Democrats Jay Inslee, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Robert Byrd and Dianne Feinstein express deep concern and alarm during years when winters were mild and snow was light, contending that global warming was the cause.'",0_0
"Pitting the interests of academic freedom against transparency, media access, and freedom of information, a high-profile case before the Virginia Supreme Court involving climate scientist Michael Mann is expected to be decided over the next few weeks.",0_0
"Finally we come to nonsense variables argument made by Burger and Cubasch. Their basic argument here appears to be that CFR methods such as those used by Mann et al (1998), Rutherford et al (2005) and dozens of other groups of climate and paleoclimate researchers, are somehow prone to statistical overfitting in the presence of trends, which leads to the calibration of false relationships between predictors and predictand. So their above claim can be restated as follows: calibration using CFR methods such as Rutherford et al (2005) and multiproxy networks with the attributes (e.g. spatial locations and signal-vs-noise characteristics) similar to those of the proxy network used by Rutherford et al (2005) will produce unreliable reconstructions if the calibration period includes a substantial trend. They believe that such conditions will necessarily lead to the selection of nonsense predictors in reconstructing past variations from the available predictor network.",5_1
"Over land, near-surface? air temperatures are those commonly measured about 1.5 to 2.0 meters above the ground level at official weather stations, at sites run for a variety of scientific purposes, and by volunteer (cooperative?) observers . These stations often experience relocations, changes in instrumentation and/or exposure (including changes in nearby thermally emitting structures), effects of land-use changes (e.g., urbanization), and changing observing practices, all of which can introduce biases into their long-term records. These changes are often undocumented.",5_1
"The author of a chapter on climate change is Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech whose work focuses on assessing the impact of climate change and communicating it to broader audiences, including those traditionally dubious of global warming, like Christian colleges.",0_0
"After milking the situation for all it is worth, and negotiating the over-eager Americans into a set of damaging concessions, the Russians gave the Obama Administration the deal it so obviously and desperately wants. But will they keep it? Having tortured, teased and humiliated the Americans for months over the framing of the deal, will they now shift to a strategy of torturing, teasing and humiliating the Americans over its implementation?",0_0
"These are silly games - initiated by Chu - because we are not talking about any specific house so you can't be sure whether Chu or humble correspondent are correctly estimating the risk. (By looking at the statistics above, you can see that Chu's prediction is extremely unlikely to be accurate.) In the case of the global climate, the subject is more well-defined and something is actually known about the issue.",0_0
2. Loss of traditional landrace seed varieties. Landrace seeds are already being maintained in seed banks worldwidepermitting higher yields on scarce prime cropland.,0_0
"""They seem to be bigger and more intense,"" said Ingram of the local tornadoes.""",0_0
"??an unusually rapid decline. It?s a very active research topic at the present time, but we do think there is a mechanism in place where we should expect more cold winters when solar activity is low.?",0_0
"At the heart of the paper, Solar Forcing of the Polar Atmosphere, are calcium, nitrate and sodium data from ice cores collected in four Antarctic locations and comparisons of those data to South Pole ice core isotope data for beryllium-10, an indicator of solar activity. The authors also point to data from Greenland and the Canadian Yukon that suggest similar relationships between solar activity and the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere. They focus on years since 1400 when the Earth entered a roughly 500-year period known as the Little Ice Age.",0_0
"How are other natural effects, such as the sun, changing the climate and global temperatures, and how large are these effects compared to mans.",2_1
"""The government is offering 1,000 a year tax-free for 25 years in return for an initial investment of 12,500. It works like this. From 1 April any household generating its own energy will be rewarded with tax-free payments ? even if that household uses all the energy it generates.",0_0
"1) There are some rather strange loose ends here. Things that dont fit. Why is another matter, and might be innocent. (Or might be manufactured; so that whole fact checking / vetting thing would need to be done.)",0_0
"Whether petitioners win or lose, the review should occasion debate not only about the specific legal issues in the case, but also about the larger constitutional issue of whether an administrative agency should be dictating national policy on a legislatively unsettled issue like climate change. The Court would not even be hearing this case if we had an accountable regulatory system in which the people's representatives, not non-elected bureaucrats or activist judges appointed for life, make policy decisions.",0_0
I shan?t be waiting with bated breath for publication of the latest review into our fair weather transport system. Government reports have a habit of arriving at far more reliable intervals than the buses and trains. We have already two Department for Transport (DfT) reports in as many years on the failure to cope with the past two winters.,0_0
"The author takes up the theme of the dangers of undermining democracy by empowering transnational (UN and EU) governance in his forthcoming book Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate.",0_0
"2. SCIENCE Food prices rise around the world, making advanced genetically modified crops increasingly attractive.",0_0
Global warning was portrayed by some as a liberal hoax. Mann said scientists were subjected to intimidation and modern day McCarthyism by powerful politicians.,0_0
"Before making any comment on this variety of scepticism, I should declare an interest. Over the past decade, I have participated in many conferences and symposia that explored the link between faith and the environment, in places ranging from Brazil to Greenland to New Orleans. So Im familiar with most of the standard arguments in this area. There are many different points on the spectrum. As well as green-minded people of faith, there are greens who hate religion, arguing that the anthropocentric bias of the Christian West has made humanity indifferent to other living things; and there are religious people, including some evangelicals, who scorn environmentalism as neo-paganism.",0_0
"Chicago--July 22, 2004: Yesterday, the debate over climate change reached a new low as attorneys general in eight states--all Democrats but one--and the corporation counsel for New York City sued five electric utilities for their alleged role in causing ""global warming.""The lawsuit is frivolous. Evidence of a human role in climate change is slim and constantly being challenged in scholarly journals. There has been no warming trend in the U.S. or in any of the eight states participating in the lawsuit.There is no evidence of any harm caused by whatever ""global warming"" may have occurred (according to some temperature measures) during the past century. Most of that warming has taken place in the coldest areas of the planet and at night, creating a more benign environment for plant and animal life. The best estimates of the net economic impact of the warming predicted by computer models show a small benefit--thanks to lower prices for energy, forestry products, and food--and unequivocal benefits to human health and longevity.For all these reasons, forcing five electric utilities to lower their greenhouse gas emissions would not affect global temperatures or weather in the U.S., and so would not provide any benefit or relief to the plaintiffs.Why, if this is the case, has this suit been filed? Chris Horner in a statement released by the Competitive Enterprise Institute says, ""This is grandstanding, pure and simple. That many of these officials are involved in one way or another in John Kerry's campaign also provides the whiff of a political favor being provided to the Democratic contender, gaining headlines for an issue with which the Bush administration is clearly uncomfortable.""NCPA Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett notes that many of the states involved in the suit have already increased their energy costs by adopting alternative energy mandates and conservation mandates, making their states less attractive to new business investment than other states. ""This is merely an attempt to level the economic playing field by forcing the rest of the nation to adopt their high-cost energy mandates,"" says Burnett.Finally, one wonders if this isn't one more desperation ploy by the beleaguered global warming alarmists, who in recent years have lost the political debate over Kyoto and McCain-Lieberman, the scientific debate in the leading academic journals, and according to polls, the support of the American public as well. Maybe by taking the issue to the courts, they can get lucky and find a jury willing to ignore the data and punish some big corporations? Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, correctly observed, ""This complaint is symptomatic of America's legal crisis and yet another example of unwarranted litigation that hurts American consumers and destroys jobs.""Joseph L. Bast is president of The Heartland Institute, a 20-year-old nonprofit research organization based in Chicago. He is publisher of Environment & Climate News and coauthor of Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Madison Books 1994, second rev. edition 1996). His email address is jbast@heartland.org.For more information, contact Allen Fore, Vice President - Public Affairs for The Heartland Institute, at 312/377-4000 or email fore@heartland.org.",0_0
Irradiance increase from 1986 to 1996 solar minimum claimed to produce 20-30% of recent global warming . . . but increase in ACRIM composite could be instrumental,2_1
"Morano on dire studies leading up to UN Summit: ""Its political lobbying disguised as science'",0_0
"The facts say otherwise. As the film FrackNation and numerous articles and reports have documented, there has never been a confirmed case of groundwater contamination due to fracking, despite numerous investigations by state agencies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. There is no evidence of air or people being poisoned, and companies continue to improve their technologies, to reduce methane leakage and employ more biodegradable and ""kitchen cabinet"" chemicals.",0_0
"In other words, more than half of this groupheart patients with diagnosed diseasemet the current LDL and HDL guidelines.",0_0
"The NINO3.4 region captures the western portion of the cold tongue, so the annual cycle in NINO3.4 sea surface temperatures shown in Figure 4.40 above confirms the seasonal warming of the cold tongue region in the early part of the year.",0_0
Larry Summers: Hitler Was Good for the U.S. Economy,0_0
All of the forecasts made by a legion of climate charlatans in the 1980s and 1990s turned out to be WRONG.,0_0
"Solar panels in Spain, where 50,000 solar panels entrepreneurs face financial disaster following cuts in government subsidies.Source: AFP",0_0
"23. How much are we beginning to experience the more gradual impacts of climate change, anthropogenic or otherwise?",0_0
El Nino could be strongest in modern history: US,0_0
"For instance, in late August, the Asian Development Bank predicted that warmer weather would cut rice production, rising seas would engulf Mumbai and other coastal megacities, and rainfall would decline by 10 percent to 40 percent across in many Indian provinces.",0_0
"Nonetheless, the U.N. leaders intend to keep trying to change that, especially when it comes to the climate agenda. ""The next 40 years will prove pivotal,"" one paper argues, while laying out the basis of a renewed U.N. climate campaign, the ""50-50-50 Challenge.""",0_0
Its important to remind readers that Die Zeit is a fundamentalist green publication that is completely closed to any arguments that challenge the global warming religion. Its Kooksville.,5_2
"With every hedge fund around doing a pile on as nothing else is moving, with a beyond parabolic rise in the grain prices, and with RSI at 80 I would NOT jump on this trade. But I would be willing to go to the store and buy a couple of bags of flour, pancake mix, and noodles. I figure about 4 months supply before the next wheat crop hits. (There are both Spring Wheat and Winter Wheat in two hemispheres and with different planting schedules based on latitude; so we have a shot at recovery soon.) I just hope this is not the new normal during a cold turn.",0_0
"Now let's look at jobs: Utility MACT and other EPA regulations on the electric power sector have resulted in over 24,000 megawatts of announced power plant retirements located in 20 states. According to the National Economic Research Associates, Utility MACT will destroy 180,000 to 215,000 jobs in 2015. And with other, new EPA regulations on the electric power sector, the economy stands to lose approximately 1.65 million jobs by 2020.",4_1
"As Anthony Watts has often complained, NOAA seem to be very reluctant to divulge how they operate. We do, however, know how the current temperatures are worked out.There are 124 stations in Virginia, split into the six divisions, with a simple average taken of the set of stations in each division. The divisions, as previously noted, are then weighted to give a statewide figure.",5_1
It happens that both statements are true; yet they do not contradict each other. How is this possible?,0_0
"So now we have new taxonomy in the climate debate to confuse us: climate hawks, climate pragmatists, climate realists. I think I like this better than alarmists, deniers, skeptics.",0_0
Global Warming Wreaks Havoc On Antarctic Research Stations Matt Vespa,0_0
"So does Figure 1 falsify the CO2 hypothesis? Not yet, weve got a ways to go, but it is an interesting finding. First, we need to look at the two explanations postulated by the good folks at the IPCC that I quoted at the head of the postvolcanoes and solar variations. And the amount that we are looking to explain is a missing increase of 1.6 W/m2 per decade.",0_0
"To the extent that human greenhouse-gas emissions are causing dangerous changes in the Earth's climate, the best ways to mitigate those changes can only be determined by the same relentless application of science as we demand for the understanding of climate change itself. That means transparently defining measures of human welfarethe values side of the policy equationand then carefully assessing not only the risks to human welfare of burning fossil fuels but also the benefitsas well the risks and benefits of geoengineering and of restricting people's access to fossil-fuel energy.",0_0
Particularly enlightening is a Table produced by the NRC showing the influence of using different discount rates and different assumption about climate change damage when pricing the effect of climate change from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.,0_0
"Global warming, it seems, also makes a good excuse for federal and state bureaucrats and politicians who have failed to properly manage high-risk areas, at least in part because of pressure from anti-logging and anti-development environmental groups.",0_0
Increasingly offensive language is used. The most egregious example has been the term denier. We are all aware of the particular meaning that word has acquired in contemporary parlance. It has been employed in this debate with some malice aforethought.,0_0
"No wonder, Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Cuomo and other politicos prefer to talk about global warming, rising seas and worsening weather to deflect attention and blame from decisions that have put more people in the path of greater danger. Indeed, the very notion of packing more and more people into ""sustainable, energy-efficient"" coastal cities in the NY-NJ area is itself madness on steroids.",0_0
"Again, just as with talk about rainforest loss, the numbers concerning species loss are equally alarming, and depending on where you look, equally diverse. But generally, the numbers can be traced to two sources: ""Dr. Norman Myers, a British ecologist who in 1979 predicted the loss of one million species by the year 2000 ; and Dr. Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard biologist who variously claims that 4,000, 30,000, or 50,000 species are lost each year."" (Eco-Sanity, p.86).",0_0
"A new study from the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard Medical School, Full Cost Accounting for the Life Cycle of Coal , estimates that the negative externalities of coal-fired electricity generation are two-to-three times as great as the actual price of the electricity itself. Wowso much for the cheap price of electricity from coal itself being a social good. And forget that decades of ever more stringent air and water regulation has internalized the so-called social cost of coal-fired power plants. And forget that carbon dioxide (CO2) has positives, not only negatives, for the biosphere.",0_0
"The DQA requires agencies, including NOAA, to ""ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information, including statistical information.""",0_0
"The two ministries, however, still cannot agree on how or how much to reduce emissions. MITI believes that population growth will make total reduction impossible. Many are concerned that Japan's disagreements may cause a very complex treaty process to unravel. Some observers feel that international pressure must be used to encourage the Japanese cabinet to make the decision.",0_0
Thousands Still Cold And Struggling Months After Superstorm Sandy : NPR,0_0
Kicking the Tires of T. Boone's Natural-Gas Car,0_0
"Certainly, to accuse them of half truths seems, well, extreme.",0_0
"The official duty of the delegates from 190 countries was to negotiate a precise timetable for the next major climate conference in November/December in Canc n, Mexico. However, in the plenary sessions the metered delegates focused instead primarily on the question of how to make additional funds available so that the climate circus, despite its highly visible hangover from Copenhagen, would be able have even more meetings in five-star hotels and convention centres. After the ""Climategate"" scandal and the Copenhagen disaster, the main reason for all the chatter and gastronomy is evidently to postpone the funeral for the UN's climate policy as long as possible. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, who has announced his pending resignation, expressed open pessimism on the chances of a new global climate treaty agreement. Der Spiegel quotes him as saying, ""not even in my wildest dreams could I imagine that concrete measures will be agreed in Canc n.""",0_0
"Horner says he feel vindicated by the release of the emails, because George Mason University officials initially told him that there were ""no records"" of the professors discussing RICO prosecution in their official capacity.",0_0
Inflation Adjusted Tornado Running Totals Storm Prediction Center WCM Page,0_0
"Over the years also, there have been a large number of declarations, manifestos, and petitionssigned by scientists, and designed to influence public opinionstarting with the Leipzig Declaration of 1995. Noteworthy among the many is the Copenhagen Diagnosis (2009), published to build up hype for a UN conference that failed utterly.",0_0
Interesting facts were revealed in this article about media mergers:,0_0
"Bast related how Denning has debated twice before when invited to attend Heartland's International Conferences Climate Change. Few individuals have the courage to accept invitations to debate because their views about global warming don't generally reflect those held by conference attendees, nor are they compatible with the views advanced by The Heartland Institute in its many published scientific journals and publications.",0_0
"The conditions required to achieve an effective global GHG control accord are, in fact, unlikely to emerge in less than several decades. The bargaining, monitoring, and enforcement costs of an agreement are high compared with the perceived benefits. The latter are both unevenly distributed and highly uncertain. The repeated failures that have so far marked efforts to reach a climate accord testify to the scale of these difficulties.",0_0
"Clearly, there are opportunities here as well as risks--opportunities to create thousands of high-paying U.S. jobs, boost GDP by tens to hundreds of billions of dollars, and generate billions in deficit-reducing tax revenues and royalties.",0_0
"The economic impacts estimated in the report are conservative because they make a very favorable assumption in favor of ACESA, namely, that domestic industries would be able to exceed the cap by about 30% during 2012-2050 by purchasing international offsets (e.g. payments to preserve forests in development countries). Access to international offsets are especially important to cost-containment in ACESA's early phase, totalling 83% of the required emission ""reductions"" in 2015. ""However, in light of the difficulties in measuring, verifying, and ensuring the permanence of these offsets, international negotiations have stressed domestic sources of emission reductions over international offsets."" The Kyoto II treaty that will be negotiated in Copenhagen ""might allow far fewer"" offsets than ACESA would provide. ""This would drive up costs substantially.""",0_0
"Its very sad to me that he seems to be abandoning a decade long project to bring humor to the world in order to set up a website that filters global warming articles for people. In a few clicks I can get really scientific articles from very credentialed people on both sides of the issue, so I dont know why we need another web site that says one side is totally right and the other side is totally wrong.",0_0
"Led by former President Clinton, twenty-two world cities agree to enact global-warming policies.",0_0
"For one thing, it allows people choice to continue emitting and simply pay the tax. Thats anathema to environmentalists, who prefer hard emission caps rather than trusting in markets to do what they wish. What environmentalists want is to force energy consumption down to extremely low levels because they want to reduce human impacts on the environment in virtually every way, and they see controlling energy as the best means to that end. Theyre probably right about that.",0_0
"Rather than engage on the merits of the arguments, these activists resort to ad hominem attacks. In particular, their use of the term ""denier""which the anti-oil lobby regularly deploys to equate those who question the certitude of certain climate theories to those who deny the occurrence of the Holocaustis reprehensible.",0_0
"It is not the bureaucracy or the carbon tax that produces eggs for breakfast, electricity for the toaster, gas for the barbie or petrol for the car. It is hard working men and women with resources, skills and carbon powered machines.",0_0
"Manhattan got pounded in 1667 and by the Great Storm of 1693. They were followed by more behemoths in 1788, 1821, 1893, 1944, 1954 and 1992. Other ""confluences of severe weather events"" brought killer storms like the four-day Great Blizzard of 1888. The 1893 storm largely eradicated Hog Island, and the 1938 ""Long Island Express"" hit LI as a category 3 hurricane with wind gusts up to 180 mph.",1_7
"However, a dozen climate, health and theological experts skeptical of dangerous manmade climate change allegations hosted a press event the day before the workshop. Three of them managed to get into the Vatican event. But when Climate Depot director Marc Morano tried to ask the UN Secretary General to advise Pope Francis that many Catholics and other Christians believe the papal position on global warming is ill-advised, a security guard took Moranos microphone away and told him, control yourself, or you will be escorted out of here. Apostates have no rights at climate confabs, Vatican or otherwise.",0_0
"At a July 2002 hearing on the Bush Administration's climate initiative, James Connaughton, Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), testified that implementing the Kyoto Protocol would reduce U.S. economic output by ""up to $400 billion"" in 2010. In contrast, a 1998 study done by President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) found that the costs of implementing the Protocol would be $7 billion to $12 billion annually in lost output.",0_0
"We need to better understand the diversity of these health risks , who will be most vulnerable, and the action governments, individuals and communities can take to reduce the risks.",0_0
"""And what became of all those artists and documentary makers and climate scientists you speak of, Dad?""",0_0
"The nations climatologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationss National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina, have selected some of the most notable floods, typhoons, hurricanes, droughts, heatwaves, tornadoes, winter storms and blizzards, and climate events of the 20th century. Factors taken into consideration included an events magnitude, meteorological uniqueness, as well as its econmonic impact and death toll. Some of NOAAs top experts gave a perspective based on their areas of expertise. The events are found in no particular order, and the list is by no means exhaustive.",0_0
"The increase in food prices is something we can and ought to stop. We can play around with scary scenarios of global warming, but nothing will kill people as efficiently as higher food prices. The global community ought to pay attention to this trend.",0_0
The Crazy Gang was the nickname of the Wimbledon football team in the 1990s and one of their peripheral members is profiled on the pages of the BBC website .,0_0
"It is said frequently that the climatic data for Antarctica for the past 30 years the period for which records are far superior to previous times shows clear signs of mankind's influence. However, it is important to look at such changes in a historical context. This is important else we attribute any and every change seen in the past few decades to mankind alone. When it is done today's changes are seen in a new light.",2_1
They have no cojones. They hide behind their sinecures the way Hamas terrorists hide behind children.,0_0
27a. The potential that climate change might have some positive effects for the country in which you live,0_0
"Discussion on these and other issues will occur again in three years when the FTA is officially reviewed, and one can bet that both sides will be in a less generous mood to compromise on these key demands.",0_0
"All this activity has created millions of oil patch and downstream jobs. Royalty and tax revenues have skyrocketed, and cheaper natural gas fuels and feed stocks have fostered a manufacturing and petrochemical renaissance.",4_5
"I think one of the reasons why it was there is because of they worked sloppily. Perhaps it had something to do with, so to say, the desire for the right result.",0_0
Polar bears became the poster child for environmentalists who argued melting Arctic sea ice could kill thousands of bears that would have nowhere to rest while hunting in the summer months. Former Vice President Al Gore even featured polar bears swimming for their lives in his 2006 film on global warming.,0_0
Probing Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change in Arctic-Alpine Plants,0_0
"In climate science, vehemence of personal attacks are directly proportional to the truth of the claim and qualifications of the author. Jaworowskis attacks were nasty and unrelenting.",0_0
"The interior of the castle is poorly lit for photography, but here is one of the inner rooms:",0_0
Three New Hampshire Towns Vote Against Wind Turbines,0_0
"Moreover, if there were some evidence that the koda models sell better than some other models, and one might argue that this evidence has been emerging for some time, it would seem reasonable to produce the koda models in the other plants as well. If they do something better in the koda plants, and ANE argues that they do, others in the VW Group should learn from koda. koda has been learning from VW proper and perhaps others for more than two decades. There is nothing wrong about learning from your colleagues in the VW Group.",0_0
"However, the reality is that there are problems with the surface temperature record, and there are problems with feedbacks in climate models, and there are serious questions to be answered regarding the proposed mitigation policies in response. Nothing in Mullers alleged conversion changes any of those issues.",5_1
"Of course we all know that airports tend to run hotter than surrounding areas due to the huge expanses of runway, tarmac, terminal buildings, and car parks they have become as aviation has grown in the last 100 years, so it is no surprise to see the airport hotter than Kelburn, which is higher in elevation and with a bit more greenery, owing to the nearby Botanical Gardens .",0_0
which I have posted on several times; e.g. see,0_0
"""How do you get rid of Hamas?"" Ali Jarbawi asks rhetorically. ""Produce results in the peace process! Hamas is a symptom, not a reason. It flourishes on the lack of a peace process.""",0_0
"""Higher taxes on fossil fuels...is one of the logical first steps in changing our policies in a manner consistent with a more responsible approach to the environment.""",0_0
"So to augment its baseless claims, EPA employed illegal experiments on people. But even when its human guinea pigs breathed up to 30 times more particulates than the agency insists are lethal, no one died. Apparently, air pollutants are a health hazard when they come from cars, refineries or coal-fired power plants but not when they are administered in massive quantities by researchers hired by EPA.",0_0
"Specifically, the Obama administration and Congress can new regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fuel efficiency through a back door. While there is broad public support for action on climate change, that support is shallow. People aren't willing to have their energy prices hiked in order to reduce their carbon footprint.",0_0
"Figure 3. Observed global temperature history, 1950-2009 (black). ""Corrected"" global temperature history (red line). ""Corrected"" temperature history with general influence of stratospheric water vapor (according to Solomon et al., 2010) removed (green line).",0_0
"Before we begin spending money on ""mitigation science"", we should learn more about the fundamentals of global warming science, according to the report. ""Our current ability to answer these scientific questions is seriously blocking progress in critical policy development."" The report also warns that policymakers should not assume that we know everything we need to know about climate just because there are international negotiations to mitigate global warming.",0_0
"While a price on GHG emissions would encourage some helpful kinds of innovation, it will not generate other kinds. Coping with climate change will require major breakthroughs in basic science. Such breakthroughs are often elusive, and seeking them is an inherently high-risk venture. The private sector finds it difficult to capture the economic rewards of funding basic science, and placing a price on GHG emissions will not correct this bias. As a result, the private sector usually does not make large, sustained investments in basic science; yet that kind of investment is the key to achieving the breakthroughs needed in climate policy.",0_0
"Expectancy Bias. If respondents perceive that the questioner has an expectancy of a certain answer, they are more likely to give that response.",0_0
"Japan and Italy, for example, have a 1.4 TFR, a ""mathematical tipping point"" at which the population will decline by 50 percent in 45 years. As for the rest of Europe, by 2050 only three countries in the E.U., which today has an average rate of 1.5 TFR, will not be experiencing population declines. Those countries are France, Luxembourg, and Ireland.",0_0
"MSNBC is not wrong about the rising global demand for food, but they?re crying ?wolf? before the wolf cubs are born. It?s true the world must double its food production in the short space of 40 years, to feed a human population that will peak at perhaps 9 billion people. Seven billion of them will be ?rich? by today?s standards. After 2050, our declining birth rate will start the first-ever long term shrinkage in human numbers. It was lower death rates that caused the ?population explosion,? by the way, and not farmers ?producing too much food.?",0_0
1. Give states greater control over energy policies,0_0
"""The government is mobilized to find the truth, the press and Internet are flooded with posts demanding clarity. Premier Wen Jiabao offered his condolences to the victims and called for a speedy and transparent investigation.""",0_0
"""It's only the second snow of the year, which is very sad,"" said Rogner, from Silver Spring. ""Global warming is the most important issue of our generation. The state of Maryland should be taking a leadership role in it, because of our vulerability with all our shoreline.""",0_0
"Finally the report argues that ""global warming may increase the frequency of extreme weather events, including both prolonged periods with little precipitation and periods of heavy downpour and snowfall, leading both to more droughts and more inland floods."" One scenario described by the report could have 100-year floods occurring every 3 to 11 years in New York City by 2100. Higher sea levels could also push salt water further up the Hudson River threatening the city's water supply.",0_0
Today I thought it was worth putting some figures on that (thanks to Will Janoschka for the question that prompted it). And here it is: I dont claim to be doing anything other than using the approximation given by Niklov and Zeller,0_0
"But such scientific free speech is too much for Kyotos backers. George Lucier, editor of a government science journal called Environmental Health Perspectives, has led the assault on Seitz.",0_0
Study: Global Warming Not a National Security Threat,0_0
"But policies that grow personal empowerment and ownership extend beyond Social Security and tax reform. The labyrinth of federal regulations that impact the lives and livelihoods of all Americans must be reformed to achieve the ownership society the president envisions. Tort reform, environmental regulation, telecommunications policy and the future or the Food and Drug Administration all impact the ownership individuals and families can exercise over their lives and their futures.",0_0
"In 2000, the American journal Science published an article in which the authors said they had evaluated the ecological risks and benefits of genetically engineered plants by reviewing the scientific literature. En route to concluding that they could draw no conclusions, the authors neglected the proven benefits of GM organisms, including enhanced yields, nutritional enhancements, less use of chemical pesticides, and more no-till farming, which reduces soil erosion and chemical runoff and puts less carbon dioxide into the environment. At the same time, no detrimental effects of GM plants had, or have, been described.",0_0
"And Steven Goddard recalls a much older article , from theChicago Tribunein 1923, that also linked icebergs with sunspots.",0_0
"The Ehrlichs favor junking the EPA in favor of a Federal Environmental Authority modeled after the political independence and power of the Federal Reserveprecisely because the Fed is ""insulated from day-to-day politics."" In other words, the Ehrlichs make clear that they understand that their agenda of governmentally imposed ""constraint"" (their term) would not succeed in a genuine democracy. The Limits to Growth team is a little more realistic that ""a world of strict, centralized government control"" of the environment is not possible, but they still indulge in some wishful thinking about how the world should be changed:",0_0
Ryssdal contrasted Brands earlier support for the back to the land movement with his current belief that big cities are better for the environment.,0_0
"Obama has always favored putting a price on carbon a carbon tax as the most efficient way to achieve his goal of reducing emissions that he believes threaten life on the planet. I am not as certain as the president and his environmental supporters, and so-called emerging countries, whose beliefs on this front might just be affected by the piles of cash they want transferred to them from the likes of us, that we are at such great and immediate risk. After all, basing policy on the predictive ability of models did not ensure the enduring health of the financial system. But neither can we be certain that the climate change believers are wrong, especially when they worry that if we go forward with this sensible policy, our domestic manufacturers will be at a further cost disadvantage to Chinese exporters. Besides, here is an opportunity to replace growth-stifling taxes on work and risk-taking with a tax on pollution at a time when oil and gasoline prices are so low that a modest increase in the tax on fossil fuels would hardly be noticed.",0_0
"that EPA's justification for their Endangerment Finding would ""very likely"" have been considerably less compelling.",0_0
I know that record this and that is what the Weather Channel is all aboutbut Sierra takes a look at the evidence.,0_0
EPA Challenged for Funding Anti-Highway Groups,0_0
Abu Dhabi Summit to Catalyse Global Support for Enhanced Environmental Decision Making in Emerging Economies:,0_0
"Energy supply has been a major player in world events since the start of World War II. German expansion was auned toward the East, with the objective of gaining control over U. S. S. R. Caucasus oil resources. In June 1941, the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands embargoed oil to Japan because of aggression against China. Japan had a 1-year oil supply and had the choice of giving in to these nations' demands or securing oil sources in Southeast Asia. The result was the December 7 attack on Pearl Harbor, simultaneous attacks on the Philippines and British Malaya, followed by attacks on the Dutch East Indies. Within months, Japan had secured its oil resources and a brutal war left millions dead.",0_0
"Although free allocations and revenue recycling can ameliorate the impacts of cap-and-trade on some industries, communities, or income groups, ""the cost of bringing emissions down to the levels required by the caps cannot be avoided.""",0_0
"The first person to recognize this, to my knowledge, was John Maynard Keynes is his gorgeous, but now little read, A Treatise on Probability , a book which argued that all probability statements were statements of logic To Keynesand to usall probability is conditional; you cannot have a probability of A, but you can have a probability of A with respect to certain evidence. Change the evidence and change the probability of A. Stating a probability of A unconditional on any evidence disconnects that statement from reality, so to speak.",0_0
"And if you check, AMAP has been consistently reminding its reports readers about the preliminary nature of any suggestion of a link between pollution and sex ratios in humans, at least since 2006 .",0_0
"Ive lowered the price of Who Turned on the Heat? from U.S.$8.00 to U.S.$5.00. A free preview in pdf format is here . The preview includes the Table of Contents, the Introduction, the first half of section 1 (which was provided complete in the post here ), a discussion of the cover, and the Closing. Take a run through the Table of Contents. It is a very-detailed and well-illustrated bookusing data from the real world, not models of a virtual world. Who Turned on the Heat? is only available in pdf formatand will only be available in that format. Click here to purchase a copy. Thanks. (I also am very happy to receive tips or donations .)",0_0
Undertaking independent efforts to more accurately determine the severity of climate change and verify U.N. claims. The lack of warming in recent years is raising fundamental questions about the underlying assumptions of climate-change predictions. Undertaking actions with grave implications for the U.S. economy without greater confidence is irresponsible.,0_0
"""I just look at what the climate scientists tell me,"" said McCarthy.",0_0
A directive took effect this week ordering wind farms with a capacity of 10 megawatts or more to forecast their generation in 15-minute blocks for the following day.,0_0
"And that, by and large, is where the media left the matter. Left largely unexamined was the information that had been covered up. What was it that the White House did not want us to know? And what was the pointless ""pablum"" that Christie Whitman refused to dignify with publication? Driven by the immediacy of the daily news cycle, TV and newspaper reporters asked the question, but did not answer it, falling back instead on the easy assertions of advocates: If the report was so damning that it had to be suppressed, it must have shown that human-induced global warming is certainly happening.",0_0
"People who use science to inform their decisions on matters such as cancer prevention, climate change, and food safety know about the hierarchy of reliability. There are ""facts"" in press releases, newspaper articles, and blog entries, which tend to be less trustworthy than, say, information in reports from Britain 's Royal Society or the U.S. National Institutes of Health. But if a report appears in a peer-reviewed journal, where articles are examined by independent experts before being published, it elicits instant and widespread respect all round.",0_0
"Providing some background for their study, Winkler et al. (2015) note the coral reproductive season ""coincides with the season most likely to experience thermal stress,"" but they report that ""many tropical coral species are already near upper thermal limits,"" citing Fitt et al. (2001). So do these two facts pose a serious dilemma for tropical corals?",0_0
"In summary what turned out to be one of climate sciences most embarrassing blunders, was also one Schellnhubers most certain and very easy to calculate scenarios.",0_0
"We also get temperature information from (non-thermometer) ""proxy"" data. And while all of these methods present specific problems and have limitations, let's review what we can learn.",0_0
"As we can see, there is no climate signal in the statistics for wheat production in China unless we want to say that its increasing productivity is the consequence of climate change. This calls for closer inspection of the argument",0_0
"In 1928, while lamerica march to the crash on Wall Street, Joseph Stalin reveals his most important project will be conquered by the Nature Science, Russia will become brutally, luccicantemente modern and the World will be transformed dallimpegno communist.",0_0
"In sum, Hickenlooper, like Obama, is intent on imposing climate policies over the will of the people. When it next convenes, the legislature should call out the governor over this heavy-handed power grab.",0_0
"Whether tropical or northern forests store more carbon might ultimately be academic, though, when it comes to mitigating climate change. Stephens believes that ""relying on trees to mitigate climate change is not a good long-term strategy, because the carbon they store gets returned to the atmosphere on a timescale of around 30 years when they die and decompose.",0_0
"Figure 1. Homogenization adjustments made by GISS to the Anchorage, Alaska urban temperature record (red stepped line, left scale) and Anchorage population (orange curve, right scale)",0_0
"There is much wisdom in the old ""early to bed, early to rise"" adage. But that's not what the Environment Ministry has in mind. They see going to bed early as a way to fight global warming.",0_0
Spain's Solar Deals on Edge of Bankruptcy as Subsidies Founder:,0_0
"As discussed in the July 18 and July 25 TWTWs, the 2014 annual report of the state-owned electricity and natural gas distribution company in Denmark states that, by 2020, the electricity capacity of power plants, including wind and solar, and import capacity will be about 3 times expected maximum consumption. As discussed in the August 8 TWTW, the need for reliable back-up for unreliable solar and wind is a major reason why Denmark and Germany have the highest electricity costs to consumers in Europe and that the relation between non-hydro renewables and consumer costs of electricity is strong and positive the greater the percentage of renewables in the mix, the higher the costs to households.",4_4
"In 2013 Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) proposed a carbon tax in their Climate Security Act of 2013. The tax started at $20 per metric ton and would rise by 5.6 percent per year, reaching $50 per metric ton by 2030 (the endpoint for the Heritage analysis).",0_0
"At this point, the individual firm is forced to ask whether its gains from current production are sufficient to justify the heavy damages that it must pay to others. Often that answer is no, so that the firm will then voluntarily cut back on its emissions to minimize the sum of three variables: the cost of pollution, the cost of pollution prevention, and the administrative costs of making these calculations. If the costs of pollution are correctly set, the firm will make the right social decision on its own initiative.",0_0
"People were saying the same things 60 years ago, but unlike Markey they actually knew what they were talking about..",0_0
"By focussing such a lopsided meticulous detail to the claimed (side) effects of speculation as the underlying agency of human technological and social advance, environmentalism is able to shirk away from applying any meaningful analysis to that speculative process as its causative object. In comparison, environmentalisms understanding of what it insists upon being the lethal obstacle to any liveable future is notably crude (even in and perhaps, especially in its attempts at cod-psychology), infantile, and alluded to with such a dismissive and self-betraying lack of objectivity that the response itself becomes a highly significant inclusion in our understanding of the debate (if we are to have any hope of resolving it).",0_0
"The explanation for the convex abatement cost penalty curve is as follows. With a high level of participation the least cost abatement options are used first. However, if there is less participation, some low cost options are not available, so higher cost options have to be used to achieve the same emissions reductions. Figure 1 shows the ratio by which the abatement cost would increase for less than full participation. For example, at 50% participation, the cost penalty would be a factor of 3.5 (i.e. 250%) higher than with full participation (ref. A Question of Balance , Ch VI, pp. 116-122 ).",0_0
"So why does NIWA bother stretching the temperature record over this wasteland of missing and unreliable data, when all seven stations are isolated islands? What purpose is served by the extra decades? A time series commencing in 1930 would offer 70 years more than sufficient to fine-tune the computer models.",5_1
"But wait, it gets better. It turns out that this program has already come in for some criticism on the intertubes. The brave truth-tellers over at Dissident Voice have decided that instead of being a misleading greenie scam run, quite inappropriately, by an agency of the U.S. government, it's actually part of a decade-spanning right-wing conspiracy to privatize all federal lands. Wait, what?",0_0
"The following statements from legal and environment policy experts at The Heartland Institute may be used with attribution. For more comments, refer to the contact information below.",0_0
"A number of climate-change metrics have become less alarming over time, ranging from global temperature to hurricanes. Climate models (including that of Hansen at NASAs Goddard Institute) have demonstrably overestimated climate sensitivity to greenhouse gas. But rather than hedge his bets and show humility toward the very complex system he is trying to model, Hansen has called for oil industry executives to be prosecuted and for civil disobedience at coal facilities.",5_1
The US House of Representatives Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has been having hearings on Climategate and more particularly the Oxburgh report. In the words of the committee's web page.,0_0
"KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 2.The results of calm investigation have proved conclusively that so far from being exaggerated the first reports of the destruction wrought by the cyclone at St. Vincent were rather short of the actual facts. The island was literally swept absolutely bare of vegetation, the experience of 1780 being repeated , but the full extent of the devastation was not at first realized, owing to the difficulty of communication through the destruction of the roads and the coastal shipping.",0_0
"States should refuse to comply with the Clean Power Plan. Elected officials, presidential candidates and citizen groups should speak out loudly, clearly and often and begin curbing the excessive power and representation of extreme environmentalists and bureaucrats in our government.",0_0
"While there are many factors driving offshoring, lower wages give countries like China and Mexico a competitive advantage. Energy costs, however, give the U.S. an advantage as ""manufacturers need a lot of energy to make their processes work,"" stated Gary Marmo, director of sales for New Jersey's Elizabethtown Gas. He says: ""A typical office building will use 5,000, 10,000, 20,000 therms a year. A good sized manufacturing plant will probably use that same amount in just a couple of days."" Electricity frequently represents one of the top operating costs for energy intensive industries such as plastics, metals, chemicals, and pharmaceuticalsand, according to a recent study comparing costs in the U.S. and China, electricity is about 50 percent higher in China.",0_0
"Christopher Essex on fluid dynamics, climate models and media climate activism",0_0
diplomatic jiu-jitsu or the moral authority of the other guy looking like a,0_0
"Obviously, I agree with the last sentence. It seems that this point, while ""easy to see"" for Gerd and me, is not widely accepted and, as noted above, showing RE statistics for some classic nonsense regressors like the Yule 1926 example will be worthwhile to illustrate the pitfalls of relying exclusively on this measure. They go on:",0_0
aware of any explanation for greater variabilityamong Patriots balls compared to Colts balls?,0_0
It may be that the station is affected by heated water discharge from the power plant and the sewage plant into the river. Being on that spit of land it has water on three sides.,0_0
"The car park asphalt at 6 meters away puts the station rating at CRN4, based on NOAAs site quality rating system used for their Climate Reference Network. Ive found that the vast majority of historical stations in the USA have been affected this way:",5_1
"Rather than focus on security or economics, President Obama's landmark announcement was a climate pact with China. He pledged to reduce America's carbon emissions by 26 per cent to 28 per cent below 2005 levels, while China promised to cap its emissions ""around 2030"".",0_0
"Lugo, Ariel E. ""Estimating Reductions in the Diversity of Tropical Forest Species,"" Biodiversity. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1988.",0_0
"My lovely wife is snapping photos already, as it has just started. Heres a sample.",0_0
"By telling the US that itslifebloodmust be purged, people like James Hansen and John Kerry are pointing a shotgun at Americans heads and asking them to pull the trigger. In order to accomplish this, two generations of brainwashing were required to destroy all self-respect for about 51% of the population.",0_0
"Often precipitation projections from different models are blended together and averaged, as if adding up a cluster of failures will somehow produce accurate results.",5_1
"In some of the instances where DDT was alleged to have killed birds, other factors from excess hunting to mercury poisoning were more likely the real culprits. Further, the bird population would often increase in areas spread with DDT as there were fewer insects to spread bird diseases. Ironically, today the mosquito-borne West Nile virus is killing many of the birds including robins, condors, eagles and peregrine falcons alleged to have been harmed by DDT. Yet greens still oppose most spraying programs that use any type of pesticide to fend off mosquitoes.",0_0
Mr Hammond told the BBC that he wanted to look at the government's long-term strategy on dealing with the UK's winters.,0_0
"Dead or Alive? According to some commentators, Kyoto is already dead. The Senate won't ratify the Protocol until it is amended to include developing countries, the treaty can't be amended until it enters into force, but it can't enter into force until the Senate ratifies it. Therefore, they conclude, COP-4 was a gigantic exercise in futility.",0_0
"Konstantin Vinnikov, a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland at College Park, said he expected climate change to have only a minor effect on future scorchers. These are events that have happened in the past and will happen in the future. Climate trends related to climate change cannot change it too much, Vinnikov said.",0_0
challenges like economic growth or climate change: They should share similar,0_0
"Pederson set up the climate and media panel so there were no skeptics on board because he is a dedicated, one might even say fanatical, believer in human-caused global warming and its catastrophic outcome. How do I know? Because last December, I attended a video streaming, arranged by Pederson in a University of Victoria classroom, of an online debate pitting skeptics Bjorn Lomborg and Nigel Lawson against warmists Elizabeth May and George Monbiot.",5_2
"Since people are asking us to bet billions on this dataset, we need more than a well, its kinda like the other datasets that contain known errors to justify their calculations. NASA is not doing the job we are paying them to do. Why should citizen scientists like myself have to dig out these oddities? The adjustments for each station should be published and graphed. Every single change in the data should be explained and justified. The computer code should be published and verified.",5_1
"Did Senate President Rosenberg's climate forum bring down the full frozen wrath of the ""Al Gore effect"" and shut down Boston?",0_0
"NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. Mauna Loa CO2 data downloaded on February 27, 2013 from Wood for Trees.",0_0
"JC comment: The bottom line seems to be that SCC is being established as a surrogate for a National Carbon Tax. My reaction to all this is that it seems like the uncertainty in SCC is colossal, I am not convinced that we should even have confidence in the sign of the SCC in light of the SPPI and WSJ analyses. And the White House is presenting values of SCC with two significant figures? Uncertain T. Monster is not pleased. There has been no attempt to propagate uncertainty through the FUND, DICE and PAGE models, not to mention whatever front end assumptions about carbon and climate are being used as inputs.",0_0
"In the beautiful Kalmar was organized on 11 and 12 May for the eighth consecutive year, the National Wind Power Conference of Regionfrbundet Kalmar Ln, Ntverket from Wind Mill Energy Agency. In other words, a state and municipal cooperation from the frmja wind power. Mr. mts government and nringslivet for informing about news, discuss the future and create contacts between different aktrer. To the participants in most cases was frlsta vindkraftsfresprkare kndes as sjlvklart d arrangrerna has the specific task that the transposition of the Government ml of more wind power. Mattias Goldmann was the moderator for the entire conference, and he set the tone of vckelsemte by telling fr audience how immensely populra they were, 75% of all Swedes like you. Keynote speakers Tomas Kberger who interjected that the participants were not only populra but also important.",0_0
"But that's what green activists and a whole industry of environmental corporate auditors are counting on. If firms' estimates somehow don't jibe with what is determined to be the ""right"" number, they could be fined or browbeaten until they capitulate to what the agencies and activists want.",0_0
Obama Targets GOP States With Costly CO2 Regulations,4_1
"Negative thermometers ARE sh**. 100% sh**. I shouldnt even need to say it to make it so. If the math results in negative thermometers, then something is wrong with the math.",0_0
"An even larger number of entitiescould be swept into the CAATitle V operating permits program,which definesas major any sourcewith a potential to emit100 TPY of a CAA-regulated pollutant. Title V permits typically do not impose new obligations on sources,because the programs purposeis tofacilitate compliance with other CAA provisions. Butmost of theentitiespotentially subject to Title V for CO 2 haveno other CAA obligations.They would befilling out pointless paperwork. And for their pains, theyd also have to payemission fees (the going rate is $43.30 per ton) for every ton of CO 2 in excess of 100 tons.",0_0
Earth is Safe from Global Warming say the Men who put a Man on the Moon,0_0
"Ward: ""the old journalism 101 thing about balance"" is creating a problem in the coverage of climate change. ""Balance in some cases can be the enemy of accuracy """,0_0
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"U.S. Energy Information Administration, ""Petroleum & Other Liquids: Effects of Removing Restrictions on U.S. Crude Oil Exports,"" September 1, 2015, http://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/crude-exports/ (accessed July 1, 2016). See also U.S. Energy Information Administration, ""Assumptions to the Annual Energy Outlook 2015,"" September 2015, https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/assumptions/pdf/introduction.pdf (accessed July 22, 2016): ""Estimated ultimate recovery per shale gas, tight gas, and tight oil well is 50% higher and well spacing is 50% closer (or the number of wells left to be drilled is 100% higher) than in the Reference case. In addition, tight oil resources are added to reflect new plays or the expansion of known tight oil plays, and the estimated ultimate recovery for tight and shale wells increases by 1% per year more than the annual increase in the Reference case to reflect additional technology improvements. Also includes kerogen development; and undiscovered resources in the lower 48 offshore and Alaska, and shale gas and coalbed resources in Canada that are 50% higher than in the Reference case.""",0_0
"The primary cosmic ray particles interact with the atmosphere and generate secondaries, some of which will reach the surface of the Earth.",0_0
"Provision of a small handful of public works such as roads, bridges, the dredging of harbors, and the like. Except for a few other limited and narrow activities, in Adam Smiths view all other matters should be left up to the choices and decisions of individuals, either on their own or in voluntary association with others in society.",0_0
"""In summary,"" Lugo states, ""strong evidence can be assembled to document the resiliency of the functional attributes of some types of tropical ecosystems (including their ability to maintain species richness) We cannot tell the needy of the tropical world that they must cease and desist in their struggle for survival to prevent a catastrophe who dimensions, consequences, or mitigating conditions we cannot define with any certainty I know of no technical reason why sensible land management in tropical areas cannot lead to the success that is usually associated with temperate zones ."" (Lugo, p.68)",0_0
"President Obama said in his inaugural address that if the U.S. leads in reducing emissions, the rest of the world would follow in America's footsteps. The statements and actions of other countries over the past four years reveal that there is no nascent consensus for effective international action that could be catalyzed by unilateral U.S. action. Instead, the U.S. should demonstrate real leadership by:",0_0
"Recently, Dr. James Hansen of NASA GISS gave his 20 year anniversary speech before congress, in which he was restating the urgency of the global warming crisis we now face. Warnings of tipping points, and a call for putting energy executives on trial for crimes against humanity and nature were parts of that speech.",0_0
"Some 2 billion people in poor nations in Asia, Latin America and Africa live on less than $2 a day, and those nations will house most of the additional 1.3 billion people arriving by 2020. So it is obvious that we desperately should be expanding, not constricting, the world?s economy and energy supplies. Global warming may or may not be an impending crisis. The contribution of human activity to climate change may or may not be a significant factor. Before we pare back economic growth in Europe, Japan, the Pacific Rim nations and the United States, and thus curtail the export hopes of emerging nations, we need to make judgments based on real science. Lumping together the conflicting worst-case-scenario computer simulations cited in the report by the UN Panel on Climate Change does not constitute science. Rather it seems to be based more on ideological wishful thinking.",0_0
CEI Comments on OMB's Draft Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations,0_0
"""These findings might seem to contradict the general notion of aerosol particles as cooling agents in the global climate system ,"" concluded the Nature news article summing up the study.",0_0
"The U.S. government accepts NASA?s plan and begins negotiations to bring other nations on board for what is viewed as humanity?s most important project ever. The president immediately creates the Bureau of Asteroid Deflection to demonstrate America?s commitment to solving the problem. The massive cost will be covered by increased taxes on corporations. Public, academic and media support is overwhelming, and the bureau opens shop with aerospace companies bidding for multibillion-dollar government contracts.",0_0
"On the campaign trail in 2012, President Obama marveled at the natural gas boom occurring in the United States, and called for a balanced approach to the development of the natural gas sector that included attention to good regulation and environmental impacts.",0_0
"Australian Climate Madness: Hilarious! Penny Wong fails to name a single supporter of the ETS That's because there aren't any , clearly... We're saved: Oasis, Coldplay And Nine Inch Nails For Roskilde - Xfm The theme for this year's festival is ""Green Footsteps"", which will focus on climate change - deposits gathered from empty bottles picked up at the site will be donated to charity projects in Bangladesh and India. The festival takes place between July 2 and 5 and takes place just outside Copenhagen. Breaking: CO2 allegedly causing Yellowstone grizzly population to only expand 4 to 5 percent per year BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) Hunters are killing grizzly bears in record numbers around Yellowstone National Park and researchers say the once-endangered predator is expanding across the region . Bears are being seen and killed in places where they were absent for decades . Researchers suspect climate change is wiping out one of the bear's food sources and they worry the trend will continue as the animals roam farther in search of food. Yellowstone's 600 grizzlies were removed from the endangered species list in 2007 , following a recovery program that cost more than $20 million. If the death rate stays high for a second consecutive year, that would trigger a review of the bear's endangered status. ... Schwartz and other biologists who study grizzlies insist the population in the 15,000-square-mile Yellowstone region of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming remains strong for now, growing on average 4 to 5 percent a year. Yet they acknowledge climate change could prove the wild card that puts that growth in check. An epidemic of beetles in Yellowstone's high country has laid waste to tens of thousands of acres of whitebark pine trees, which have seeds that some grizzlies rely on as a dietary staple.",0_0
Massachusetts Wind Turbine Corruption & Health,0_0
"If that happens, Mr. Bush's choice would be clear: Rip it up. Yes, the threat of global climate change is serious and bears close scrutiny. If the United States believes that warming warrants action, we can take steps ourselves. We don't need to sign an agreement that Mr. Chirac calls a grand step toward ""global governance."" Do it right. Go it alone.",0_0
"But the hyping of every possible scare that comes down the road such as melting glaciers, shearing polar ice sheets, flowers blooming earlier than usual, animals migrating north, hurricanes, European heat waves, northeastern U.S. cold snaps, and so on is backfiring on environmentalists, and the issue is losing steam. The annual Gallup Poll on the environment last spring found declining public interest in global warming. ""Last year at this time,"" the firm's Lydia Saad wrote, ""Gallup reported that global warming was ""a bit of a yawn' to most Americans. Today, one might say the public is practically dozing . . . Global warming ranks near the bottom of the list of specific environmental issues for which Gallup measured public concern."" Unable to persuade the public, environmentalists are increasingly looking for ways to file lawsuits to stop climate change.",0_0
"FYI, to stay ahead of storms, get alerts even ahead of the NWS, and to track storms and get ETAs to your location, try this program that uses free data:",0_0
"Washington, D.C., November 16, 2004On the occasion of yet another congressional hearing featuring alarmist predictions of future climate disaster, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has released a study on the state of the global warming debate. Today Senate Commerce Committee chairman John McCain (R-AZ) will hold a hearing on the misleading and unbalanced Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report. CEI's study, Launching the Counter-Offensive: A Sensible Sense of Congress Resolution on Climate Change, by Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis, Jr., refutes many of the faulty assumptions from the Impact Assessment and similar climate studies.",0_0
Theres an interesting paper by Mike Hulme which discusses and rejects this kind of approach: Reducing the future to climate: a story of climate determinism and reductionism:,0_0
"Using the regional curve standardization technique applied to ring-width measurements from both living trees and relict wood, the authors developed a 1052-year summer (June-August) temperature proxy from high-elevation Alpine environments in Switzerland and the western Austrian Alps (between 4628' to 4700'N and 749' to 1130'E). What was learned",0_0
"There's only one thing to do. I will wrap my legs in the two sleeping bags. Stupidly, I have forgotten duct tape, the camper's cure-all. I could have strapped the bags to my thighs. Now I'll have to hold them up as I walk. As we pack, we discover the pot of water that was boiling not long ago is now frozen solid.",0_0
"We compared the evolution of the 2014/15 El Nio to the 1982/83 and 1997/98 El Nios in a number of posts in this series, back when this El Nio was being compared to those two strong events. We dont see those comparisons as often, but people may still expect to see the comparisons in my posts, so Ive updated those graphs. And since weve been watching the downwelling (warm) Kelvin wave as it makes its way east along the equator in the Pacific, also included in this post are evolution comparisons using warm water volume anomalies and depth-averaged temperature anomalies from the NOAA TAO project website.",0_0
"state: ""Wind, water, waste, workforce and wood.""",0_0
"Gomez Robledo said the side issues of funding, technology and forestry ""are almost ripe,"" and negotiators will work on disputed details over the next five days.",0_0
"example, referring to the J. Cimate paper (which should be finally accepted",0_0
All this while AGW ideologists reaped untold profits convincing populations that carbon (the very stuff we are made of) is bad and so we all have to pay for carbon to a global mafia.,0_0
"The Plan promotes increased renewable generation as a way to reduce GHG emissions. Under the Plan, the President has set a goal to double renewable generation by 2020. In furtherance of this goal, the Department of the Interior is directed to permit 10 gigawatts of renewable generation on federal lands by 2020. The Plan also designates Red Rock Hydroelectric Plant on the Des Moines River in Iowa as the first-ever hydropower project to participate in the Infrastructure Permitting Dashboard for high priority projects. The Department of Defense is committed under the Plan to deploy 3 gigawatts of renewable energy on military installations by 2025. Federal agencies will set a new goal of 100 megawatts of installed renewable capacity across the federally subsidized housing by 2020. According to the Plan, the federal government will consume 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 ? more than double the current goal of 7.5 percent. And the United States will work with international trading partners towards global free trade in clean energy technologies.",0_0
"n 2010, President Obama, temporarily enjoying swollen Democratic majorities in both houses, tried to pass a cap-and-trade law that would bring the U.S. into compliance with the reductions it had pledged in Copenhagen. A handful of Democrats from fossil-fuel states joined with nearly every Republican to filibuster it.",0_0
Just to prove theres no pleasing some people: Coalition opposes fracking technique that uses propane to extract natural gas,0_0
every effort has been made to use data that are either rural and/or where,0_0
"deLange, W.P. and Carter, R.M. 2014. Sea-Level Change: Living with uncertainty . Global Warming Policy Foundation, Report 15.",0_0
"The progressive civil war has played out in the ensuing post-Obamacare policy and political debates as well. Moderate progressives argued for a sole preoccupation with the economy, jobs, and controlling the deficit. Polls showed that this is what independents, who still had a personal regard for President Obama, wanted addressed. Liberal progressives instead insisted on measures that would energize the despondent base. Immigration reform would attract Latinos, addressing student-loan defaults would energize the young, cap-and-trade would energize environmentalists, and so on.",0_0
"He fumes at strangers who call him a traitor for agreeing to manufacture in Zhuzhou, China, a new solar panel production device that his company developed in the United States.",0_0
"As a result, across the entire equatorial Pacific, Figure 7, warm water volume is lower and depth-averaged temperatures are less in 2014 than they were in 1997. Then again, theyre higher than they were in 1982. For this year, the warm water initially increased across the entire equatorial Pacific, as warm water from off the equator circulated to the equator. Then the warm water decreased as it evaporated or was redistributed from the equator.",0_0
Measuring and Reducing Americans' Indirect Energy Use,0_0
"Yet, no journalists ever bothered to follow up and ask Schellnhuber why he had peddled such an absurd prognosis back in 2009. In an interview with Spiegel on October 6, 2010, Schellnhuber acts like he had never made the ridiculous Himalayan 2035melting prediction. In the Spiegel interview (7:10 mark) he is quoted (highlighted in yellow):",0_0
"These attachments are part of the present package. Attachment1.pdf is simply a statement of PNAS procedure. Note that members of the NAS are permitted to communicate up to 4 papers per year. The members are responsible for obtaining two reviews of their own papers and to report the reviews and their responses to the reviews. Note, as well, that rejection of such contributions by the Board of PNAS is a rare event, involving approximately 2% of all contributions.",0_0
"Obamas Clean Power Plan: Solar Companies Win, Taxpayers Lose",0_0
"Simply put, there is nothing true in MoveOn.org's advertisement ""The Air We Breathe.""",0_0
"CEI's General Counsel Sam Kazman said, ""The subpoena of Exxon by Massachusetts AG Maura Healey is part of the same AG campaign to silence global warming dissenters in which Virgin Islands AG Claude Walker is participating. As that order indicates, and as CEI has long contended, there are strong indications that this campaign has nothing to do with law enforcement, but rather is a bad faith attempt to push a political agenda.""",0_0
"In general,a passive building typically has very low air infiltration from outside and is heavily insulated to ensure low thermal heat loss. Indeed heating requirements can be as low as 15 kwh per square meter of occupancy space per year. In the wintertime air intake is heated, and in the summertime the building uses the cool night air along with lots of shading for cooling. These types ofbuildings, at least in north Germany,are not equipped with air conditioning.",0_0
"If PM2.5 is lethal and there is no safe threshold, shouldn't EPA officials, its researchers and their institutions be prosecuted for deliberately misleading volunteers and conning them into breathing the poisons? Shouldn't they be prosecuted for experimenting on children, in direct violation of EPA's own rules banning such experiments and for deleting evidence describing those tests?",0_0
"Population pressures were and remain a genuine environmental concern, but it gradually became clear that Ehrlich and other alarmists had way overestimated the problem, and it looks very different today. (Indeed, the great social problem of the end of this century may be population that is falling too rapidly.) And while Ehrlich is still peddling the same Malthusian gloom, he never turns up on the Tonight Show any more; in fact, he doesn't even make it on Hardball or Countdown with Krazy Keith.",0_0
"Total emissions of air pollutants tracked by EPA are forecast to fall by 22 percent between 1997 and 2015, assuming no new air quality regulations, thanks to reductions in tailpipe emissions for most types of vehicles (already down 96 percent or more since 1978) and cleaner fuels.12",0_0
"/s/ Gerard C. Shows JSC, Asst. Manager, Quality Assurance, 30 years",0_0
EPA has determined that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare.,0_0
"What makes this volta face all the moreunexpected is that BACT standards, which apply to individual facilities on a case-by-case basis, are generally more stringent than NSPS, which set minimum emission control standards forcategories of industrialsources. In regulatory parlance, NSPS providethefloor for BACT determinations. If the EPA would not useBACT to require fuel switching,then it would seem unreasonable even paranoid to suspect the EPA of planning to useNSPS for that purpose.",0_0
Milder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms,0_0
"New Film Shows Hans Schellnhuber Claiming ""Himalayan 2035 Glacier Melt Was ""Very Easy To Calculate""",0_0
"One company testified that it elected not to replace spray nozzles in a process dryer, even though it determined significant energy savings could result, because EPA would not consider the new Teflon-coated nozzles to be equivalent parts, and consequently the project would trigger NSR. The new nozzles would have resolved the need to repeatedly replace existing equipment and may have provided a safer and more reliable operating environment for workers.",0_0
"I asked Christopher C. Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and attorney in the ATI v. UVa/Mann lawsuit for his take on the leaker's message. He told me, ""Whatever prompted ""Mr. FOIA,' I take it as a statement that, so far, the courts have failed us, as have our political institutions and he has concluded that those in the public who have resisted the climate industry agenda should now have a chance to review these taxpayer-financed records, which are the subject of a remarkable campaign to subvert transparency laws.""",0_0
UPDATE 10/2: Mislabeled graph fixed at the bottom of this post. Thanks to Mark Bahner in the comments!,0_0
"McCarthy and the Air Offices misleading statements about fuel switching discredited critics who claimed the EPA waswaging a war on coal and would, if left to its own devices, ban new coal generation. The fiction thatgreenhouse gas emission standards are unrelated to fuel economy standards gavethe EPA legal covertogin up a regulatory nightmare for auto makers the prospect of a market-balkanizing, state-by-state, fuel-economy patchwork just so the White House, in hush-hush negotiations, could demand auto industry support for the administrations motor vehicle mandates as the price for averting thedreaded patchwork.This is a complicated tale , which I will discuss in Part 2 of this series.",0_0
"For comparison, I just looked at San Francisco Craigslist. It shows 1,000 new listings in the last three days. Detroit shows only 800.",0_0
"The report specifically debunks two myths propagated by ACESA proponents. One is that there would be virtually no cost to consumers because (a) utilities would receive lots of free emission allowances, avoiding costs they would otherwise pass on to ratepayers, and (b) revenues from auctioned allowances would be returned as dividends to low-income households.",0_0
"Armed Troops Burn Down Homes, Kill Children To Evict Ugandans In Name Of Global Warming",0_0
CMIP5 Models Fail to Reproduce Post-1950 Indian Monsoon Trend (6 April 2015),5_1
"Last night BBC Four aired a documentary which took a look at climate change sceptics and in particular one of the movements most prominent poster boys, Lord Christopher Monckton, 3 rd Viscount of Brenchley.",0_0
Validation Of A Climate Model Is Mandatory: The Invaluable work of Dr. Vincent Gray,0_0
"People phoned at home are easy prey to cultural intimidation. The immediate thought is likely to be that the pollster has your number and, who knows, might even call your boss if you say the ""wrong"" thing. (Pollsters assure us that they do not know the identities of those phoned, but of course when you are dragged away from dinner by a caller from the New York Times you don't think about that.) As a result of this intimidationsuddenly someone wants to know what you think of global emissions and greenhouse gasespeople are alert for cues as to the ""right"" answer and are only too happy to provide it.",0_0
"Figures from energy firm BP showed earlier this year that Chinese emissions will steamroll through the Paris-based IEA's 2020 peak target next year, nearly a decade early, with no sign of slowing down.",0_0
"For example, in March 2001, he rejected the Kyoto Protocol on climate change as ""fatally flawed."" For nearly four years, Europeans have acted as if Mr. Bush didn't believe what he said, or that they could apply enough moral suasion to change his mind. Won't happen. A smarter policy would have been to find a new approach to mitigating the possibility of global warmingone with a sounder scientific basis and a lower economic cost. Bribing Russia to join Kyoto is not going to sway George Bush one inch.",0_0
"Thats where we are now with GHGs. We are going to get more or less GHG regulation over time depending on who is in the White House and whether the particular GHG regulations that EPA issues are legally defensible. Thus, each regulation is going to have to be attacked (or defended) on the merits. My own view is that EPAs latest GHG proposal, for new source performance standards for coal-based electric generation, is not legally defensible and will be overturned in Court. But there will be many more GHG regulations to come, and we are in for another long, hard rule-by-rule slog under the CAA, in this case to shape the timing and stringency of GHG regulation in this country.",0_0
"Like this guy, who is making up statistics about things he knows nothing about.",0_0
"PS: Let me request that if you disagree with something Ive said, QUOTE MY WORDS. Im happy to either defend, or to admit to the errors in, what I have said. But I cant and wont defend your interpretation of what I said. If you quote my words, it makes all of the communication much clearer.",0_0
"Gone was Obamas roundabout reference to climate change through the specter of a warming planet from four years ago. This time, the president put the issue front and center.",0_0
"""In its most extreme form, this phenomenon has involved calls for scientific versions of the Nuremberg Trials (from a writer at the environmental magazine Grist) and the equation of ""climate change denial' with Holocaust denial. Others have branded as criminal those who question restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.""",0_0
"First, to clear the air, conspiracies exist everywhere, so at least Im guilty as charged. People collude though, for a common goal as part of our normal social structure. We are stronger in groups than individually a basic fact which has led us to organize most everything we human demons do. When our views align, we work together toward our goal, often with unspoken intent to demonstrate what we believe is right. If you dont agree with this basic point, consider that political parties are a conspiracy by definition, as are businesses, militaries, police forces, religions etc. Fortunately, theres nothing wrong with most conspiracies.",0_0
"The more developed countries, in contrast, have seen their fertility rates fall from low to unsustainable. Every developed nation is now below replacement level. In the early 1960's, Europe's fertility rate was 2.6. Today the rate is 1.4, and has been sinking for half a century. In Japan the rate is 1.3.",0_0
"Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, for example, was developed by private industry, funded by private investors and tested on private lands. It did not have to depend on taxpayer subsidies, approval by federal bureaucrats, or access to shale deposits on federal lands.",0_0
World leaders pledge to spend an additional $1 trillion to stimulate the global economy.,0_0
"In an interview in Nature published Wednesday, White House science adviser John Holdren also predicted Obama's climate policies would survive under a Trump presidency, claiming ""all"" of those policies are ""enthusiastically pursued by career civil servants and not just political appointees."" Holdren also emphasized there is now ""a huge amount of global momentum behind"" the Paris treaty and the United States ""would become a pariah if we backed out.""",0_0
"Now, to report that 15,000-30,000 people have died, when the actual number is 56, represents a big error. Lets try to get some idea of how big. Suppose we line up all the victims in a row. If 56 people are each represented by one foot of space, then 56 feet is roughly the distance from me to the fourth row of the auditorium. Fifteen thousand people is three miles away. It seems difficult to make a mistake of that scale.",0_0
"During this review process, they should suspend and defund implementation of regulations and programs that raise serious questions about honesty and validity. Rules and programs ultimately found to be based on junk science, doctored data, collusion, or concocted evidence should be terminated and agency personnel who have engaged in deceptive or fraudulent practices should be penalized or fired.",0_0
"Technology: The Bush administration should re-examine the role of the Federal Communications Commission and its control over rapidly developing technologies, so that all consumers can benefit from expanded choice.",0_0
"Little Reach Sewage Treatment plant, run by Thames Water. Photo looking west, can see the edge of the power station.",0_0
"""California's logging policy may hang on the fate of the black-backed woodpecker if environmental advocates have their way, a petition says.""",0_0
"Oddly enough, due to error, we are quite likely to see a number of failed to rejects increase and decrease over time. The reality is that, though I have not calculated error, we are in the period of time when error is anticipated to be large. So, until there is sufficient time for error to drop below 50%, we will tend to see more periods of failed to reject than periods of reject even if the IPCC projections are wrong.",0_0
"According to Mann, Morano has changed the entire rhetoric of the deniers. Mann says: Morano has really accomplished a lot .",0_0
"So climate change policy may increase the risk of conflict, and the conflict will increase peoples exposure to climate change.",0_0
"In the longer run, developed countries should be committing at least 1 percent of their Gross Domestic Product much more than they spend on easing global poverty into a U.N.-administered Green Carbon Fund to pay for the developing country changes;",0_0
They require a minimum wind speed of 14km/hr to operate and reach maximum power at 50km/hr,0_0
This is exactly what the experts predicted. Time to end the denial.,0_0
Is this true? How many really died from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl?,0_0
"The prompting of the federal government will not be necessary for the private sector and state and local governments to undertake many of the needed adjustments. Generating and diffusing this kind of scientific knowledge should be a top priority of the federal government. In this regard, too, ACESA has found the right priority.",0_0
But some researchers have expressed exasperation at the IPCCs use of unsubstantiated claims and sources outside of the scientific literature.,0_0
Especially if you can convince people you have some new and unusual statistical knowledge (photos courtesy of Zombie at PJMedia.com):,0_0
25a. Potential for catastrophe from climate change for the country in which you live in the next 50 years (very low to very high).,0_0
"""If you drive regularly along Route 100 in Howard County, you might notice the lighting is a little dimmer than it used to be.""",0_0
"When compared with projected ""business-as-usual"" GHG emissions, the Governor's order would require California to reduce GHGs 11 percent by 2010, 25 percent by 2020, and 87 percent by 2050. Schwarzenegger's plan calls for the virtual elimination of GHG emissions in California over the next few decades. This alone should give people pause, as the only way to achieve such large GHG reductions is to drastically curtail the use of fossil fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and natural gas.",0_0
"Were looking at several models at the bureau and we survey them quite regularly, and of those seven models, five of them now and just edging into the El Nio territory round about spring, he said.",0_0
"Note: 2: Estimates using OLS are given for comparison only. When data exhibit red noise, the C-O results are more accurate than OLS.)",0_0
"And remember, according to those who are cheering the Paris deal, the goals are a starting point, remember? They fully expect (indeed, are demanding) that this is a floor, not a ceiling that nations will come back in the years ahead and commit to more draconian cuts to bring their emissions down further.",0_0
"""Simple as it is, though, no scientist in the world is able to construct a model that exhibits any radiative gain because the theory's tenets (called ""the basic science') are not valid. On a theoretical basis alone, conservation of energy (the First Law) forbids a model like this from working. You can't obtain more energy than you put in.",0_0
"a) Hopewell, although a city in its own rights, is part of the Greater Richmond Metro Area. There must, therefore, be a question mark over any possible UHI effects.",0_0
"Electricity rates will rise not merely to the 15-17 cents/kWh in ""green energy"" states like California, from the 8-9 cents per kilowatt-hour currently paid in coal-reliant states. They could skyrocket to the 36-40 cents/kWh now paid in Denmark and Germany (70-80 cents when taxpayer subsidies are included).",0_0
Elevated CO2 Reduces the Negative Effects of Ozone on Aspen Clones,0_0
"dendrochronologists!) before Mann merged the local records together. So, why",0_0
"Or consider Jurgen Tritten, Germany's environmental minister, in an op-ed in the Frankfurter Rundschau. He wrote (according to a translation prepared for me): ""By neglecting environmental protection, America's president shuts his eyes to the economic and human damage that natural catastrophes like Katrina inflect on his country and the world's economy.""",0_0
"25 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, pp. 12-13. The scenario assumes the utilities would elect to accept caps on emissions from the affected units (so-called ""minor"" NSR permits) limiting generation to recent levels rather than take units offline during the permitting process.",0_0
"Lucier calls Seitzs petition disingenuous. Yet in the same piece, Lucier wrote, Both sides of the global-warming question must be examined and discussed openly. What could be more disingenuous than that?",0_0
"""However, we have already overcome the north-south divide in terms of numbers,"" she said.",0_0
"The promoters of man-made climate fears are now reduced to claiming as University of California, Berkeley, professor Richard Muller did last week that any warming trend equals some sort of ""proof"" of man-made warming. Those of us who laugh at Gore's mythical ""climate crisis"" tip our hat to Obama for not pushing very hard for the Congressional Climate Bill and for being so tepid at U.N. climate conferences.",0_0
"If youd like to make a tax-deductibledonatation to The Heartland Institute, visit this site .",0_0
"Over the past two months, environmental activists have held protests at the White House and elsewhere hoping to convince the Obama administration to deny a permit for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Some of those same activists have launched a series of demonstrations called ""Moving Planet"" to move ""the planet away from fossil fuels towards a safer climate future."" And next month, leaders from dozens of countries will meet at the 17th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa.",0_0
"One of Germany's biggest utility groups has threatened to cancel the construction of a new power plant that would create 4,000 new jobs in Germany unless significant changes are made to the European Commission's emissions trading plan, in particular the rules governing trade in carbon dioxide certificates.",0_0
first year? Is the dysfunction in the political process eventually going to take,0_0
But I've never heard leading researchers mention the possibility before.,0_0
"Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy, Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White (Regnery Publishing, 2016), 256 pp., ISBN-10: 1621574091; $19.24 on Amazon.com.",0_0
"More importantly, it was the year that Nixon resigned over something far less serious than Obamas gun running to Mexico.",0_0
"We find that they originally contacted 10,257 scientists, of whom 3,146 responded, less than a 31% response rate. Impending Planetary Doom was obviously not uppermost in the minds of over two thirds of their target population. Of that number, only 5% described themselves as climate scientists, numbering 157. The authors reduce that by half by only counting those who they classed as specialists.",0_0
"Review of Energy Freedom, by Marita Littauer Noon (Intermedia Publishing Group 2011), 177 pages, ISBN- 978-1937654054If you are looking for a book that will fully explain why affordable, reliable energy is absolutely crucial to our social and economic well-being, Energy Freedom by Marita Littauer Noon is the book for you. This is truly one of the most enjoyable books I have read in a very long time.I am not alone in my assessment.John Fund, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, said of this book, ""Even people who have no idea where the electricity that lights their home or gas that cooks their meals comes from will find Energy Freedom a clear, understandable primer on why we all have to care about energy.""""Marita Noon's Energy Freedom documents both the role energy plays in the exercise of American freedom and the efforts by some to subvert that freedom through restricting its supply,"" said Apollo 17 astronaut and former U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt.Both these men are entirely correct.Progress Through Energy AdvancesIn a thorough but very readable narrative, Noon explains how and why so many people work to bring us affordable energy. She also lifts the veil on the dark side of energy politics, where anti-energy extremists pull out all the stops to restrict energy production and consumers' energy use. Indeed, she slays the ""green"" monster that warps the thinking of some of the most intelligent people in politics, and she explains how government regulation and red tape have prevented access to so many of our vast natural resourcesNoon details how life would be with only electric cars and limited transportation, comparing it to the pre-1920s when Americans rode on horseback. Sure, there were no direct carbon dioxide emissions from transportation (other than horses' breathing), but each horse required five acres of hay and oats to feed it, and the horses left piles of manure on city streets which created great stench and spread disease. The unintended environmental and health impacts of conventional energy substitutes may have changed over the years, but they remain in one form or another, regardless of how environmental activists choose to frame the issue.Noon describes an environmental dystopia where the medicines that have helped double our life spans in the past century would be drastically curtailed by reduced availability of cheap energy.Noon understands and agrees that we all want a green earthclean air, fresh water, and a safe food supplybut restricting energy use and blocking technological progress are not good ways to achieve it. We have made huge environmental strides since the dawn of the industrial Revolution. Despite dramatic increases in population, economic production, electricity generation, transportation miles, etc., U.S. aggregate emissions are less than half of what they were just a few decades ago.When someone on a street corner or in front of a grocery store asks us to sign a petition to stop plans for a new power plant or some other natural resource project, we ought to remember the larger implications of the environmental utopia they seek, Noon notes.Unmasking Environmental ExtremistsShe pulls no punches in linking today's environmental zealots to the authoritarian leftists of the early and mid-twentieth century. Noon gives full documentation why many people correctly refer to today's environmental activist groups as ""watermelons""green on the outside, red (Communist) underneath. She quotes George Will explaining, ""today's green left is the old red revised.... The left exists to enlarge the state's supervision of life, narrowing the individual choices in the name of the collective good.""Noon provides support for her points with detailed case studies, such as the nefarious ways of the seemingly innocuous Humane Society. Noon gives readers all the information we need to find and read the detailed case studies ourselves, which is a huge plus.Noon also provides excellent information and data on the most dangerous environmental groups, such as their astonishing net worth. For example, the World Wildlife Fund, which is number three on the list, has a net worth of $426 million. Collectively, numbers two through 10 on the list are worth $2.6 trillion. The number one group on the list, the Nature Conservancy, is worth more than $5 trillion. Even groups ranking relatively low on the list have astonishing resources at their command. The number 7 group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, is worth $232 million. Number 8, Environmental Defense, is worth $145 million.Topics that Stand OutThe book does an excellent job slaying misconceptions on many energy-related topics, and a few deserve special praise. Noon emphatically and persuasively documents the farce of ""free"" solar energy. She meticulously explains the absurdity of burning crops to make ethanol and biofuels, documenting the vast amounts of land and resources required to divert our food supply into fuel.Providing context for energy-related environmental hoaxes, Noon succinctly conveys the deadly historical effects that followed the false DDT claims. She also documents the tragic economic toll on northwestern U.S. communities resulting from efforts to save the non-endangered spotted owl. Far greater economic costs are being imposed on the United States and western democracies in the name of fighting a nonexistent global warming problem.Energy Freedom is both a thorough book and an easy read. It will make a great Christmas stocking stuffer.",0_0
"Dont really know what to make of it, though. Far enough away from anything of interest to not cause much damage. Big enough to be interesting.",0_0
"It all depends on what A really thinks about C and whether B actually cares about C. But it gets more complicated if B and A do not quite agree on what C is. They may not even be aware of their disagreement. What then? B could be complicit in a lie while A is completely innocent, and of course A could be dishonest even if B is innocent. The calculus of sin can be quite messy. If that were not complicated enough, A could be seduced into believing C. B sends flowers, and A likes the way the light falls on Bs shiny hair. A and B might both be honest but just distracted, and so on.",0_0
"Murkowski's comments were referencing coal-fueled power plants that are already due to be shut down based on regulations from 5 years ago, before the proposed CPP additionally reduces supply. Affirming Murkowski's comments, Nicholas Akins, president and CEO of Ohio-based American Electric Power Company Inc., sees the 2014 near crisis as a warning sign. At that same hearing he said: ""The weather events experienced this winter provided an early warning about serious issues with electric supply and reliability. This country did not just dodge a bulletwe dodged a cannonball.""",0_0
"On April 2, the Financial Accounting Standards Board relaxed strict application of ""mark to market"" accounting mandates. A major culprit in the financial meltdown, mark to market was a set of relatively new accounting regulations that could force banks into making massive and unwarranted write-downs that could jeopardize their balance sheets. Needless and economically harmful, these rules are another example of how government intervention, rather than so-called market failure, helped to cause the current recession.",0_0
"The one thing all parties should be able to agree upon, however, is the importance of understanding what we know for certain and what remains to be proven. Without an honest and accurate assessment of the state of our knowledge, there can be no real hope of making sound climate change policy; we are not likely to answer questions that are left unasked. Ironically, the politically unpalatable National Research Council understood this clearly:",0_0
"* Yet there is evidence that both particular feedbackssuch as that from clouds and feedbacks in total may be negative, not positive;",3_1
"Lest there be any confusion on thispoint, a Q&A document published along with the March 2011 guidance asks whether fuel switching (coal to natural gas) should be selected as BACT for a power plant? The document answers: No. It states that BACT for carbon dioxide (CO2) should consider the most energy efficient design, but does not necessarily require a different type of fuel from the one proposed.",0_0
"Well, you get the idea. There is already far too much information to assimilate in one reading (Im probably just as tired of going on and on as you are of reading all this!). As always, discussion is welcome.",0_0
"TheDC analysis: EPA global warming regulations no ""end run' around Congress:",0_0
\] All these three decays are made unavoidable in the Green-Schwarz-mechanism-based models and the relative branching ratios are pretty much given. Note that \(W^0\equiv W 3\) is a mixture of \(Z^0\) and \(\gamma\) so all three pairs created from \(Z^0\) and \(\gamma\) would be possible but the Landau-Yang theorem implies that the \(\gamma\gamma\) decay of \(Z'\) is forbidden (the rate is zero) for symmetry reasons.,0_0
Heat is on Australias Antarctic Ice runway | Plane Talking,0_0
"EPA insists that saving fuel and reducing pollution from now super-clean vehicles requires that cars and light trucks get 54.5 mpg by 2025. But achieving this will force people to drive smaller, lighter, more plasticized, less safe cars and millions more will be maimed and killed. EPA doesn't mention that, or acknowledge that fracking ensures another century of oil and gasoline: time to devise new energy sources.",0_0
Paul and Anne Ehrlich's One with Nineveh employs the newly popular technique of drawing an analogy between the collapse of an ancient civilization due to environmental factors and the prospective collapse of modern civilization. The Ehrlichs look to Biblical Nineveh; last year Jared Diamond used the same technique with the ancient Mayan civilization in the pages of Harper's magazine. Declaring with certitude from the murky and incomplete history of Nineveh and Maya that environmental factors were the cause of their collapse and that their example is applicable to modern technological society is just the kind of superficial analysis that leads more and more disinterested observers to dismiss popular environmentalism as cranky obscurantism.,0_0
"The total utslppet of CO 2 since the beginning pindustrialiseringen (1750) estimated at 36530 Gtonnes. Since 1900 utslppen in big cat exponentially with a tillvxtfaktor of 0,026 / r (18-doubling p 110 r).",0_0
"We dont fully understand the relative importance of these different factors, Professor Rowan Sutton of the University of Reading said at a briefing with Met Office scientists in London.",0_0
"Epstein reminds us that, ""In 1972, the international think tank, the Club of Rome, released a multimillion-copy-selling book, The Limits of Growth, which declared that its state of the art computer models had demonstrated that we would run out of oil by 1992 and natural gas by 1993 (and, for good measure, gold, mercury, silver, tin, zinc, and lead by 1993 at the latest.)",0_0
THE WEST INDIAN STORM Results in the Island of St. Vincent Worse Than Reported. WHOLE COUNTRY SWEPT BARE Distress of the People Described as Exceeding That Caused by the Great Famine in India. View Article NYTimes.com,0_0
Part One: Al Gore & Friends,0_0
"But skepticism abounds, particularly within the financing community. This skepticism could be a deal breaker because nuclear-power operators with small market caps do not have the resources to finance capital-intensive new nukes with equity or with corporate-level debt. In recent history, new construction in the power generation sector has been financed mostly with non-recourse debt, meaning that banks and bondholders, rather than shareholders, take the risk.",0_0
I invite readers to review the NOAA Talking Points document with that definition in mind.,0_0
"one boggling case: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals handed up the food chain have triggered changes in the sex of unborn children in the first three weeks of gestations, resulting in the birth of twice as many girls as boys in some villages in Greenland and among the Inuit nations of eastern Russia",0_0
"The former VP's media, Hollywood and congressional friends always protect him and his junk science. He will not debate anyone. When he gives six-figure talks on college campuses, the only questions allowed are those he has preapproved. On the extremely rare occasions when someone does ask an inconvenient question, as during a recent convention of friendly journalists, Gore dodges the question until the uppity interrogator's microphone can be switched off.",0_0
"But this is not the first venture into fiction for the Royal Society and its members. Its current president, Martin Rees wrote in 2004, Our Final Hour: A Scientists Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankinds Future In This Century On Earth and Beyond (sold in the UK as Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? ) This is a bleak, miserable, pointless story about how our chances of surviving the next 100 years are just 50-50.",0_0
"Researchers from the University of Sydney looked at patients attending an anxiety disorders clinic. They found one-third of the patients had anxiety about the effects of climate change. Their behaviours included checking and rechecking pets water bowls, light switches, taps and stoves. Researchers say while these behaviours are common in obsessive compulsive disorder, the rationale was unique.",0_0
"""I think this event is important,"" event organizer Alejandro Ezcurra said, ""the issue of global warming is one many people are skeptical of, but do not necessarily know the facts why. This session presented the clear facts and helped them understand.""",0_0
Kenya is not alone. The phenomenon is spreading to other African countries and to some South American countries such as Paraguay.,0_0
"Professor Frank Furedi nicely sums the real lesson from Climategate, The CRUs real failing was to dent the authority of the climate-change morality tale, with its idea that, with the end of the world fast approaching, there is an urgent need to monitor peoples behavior and lower their horizons.",0_0
"Myers himself ""offered no basis for his prediction other than to call it a `reasonable working figure' Wilson cites as the basis of his prediction a mathematical equation known as the species-area curve that relates the size of an island to the number of species found on it. An island 10 square miles in area, for example, is typically found to have half as many species as a similar island of 100 square miles. Wilson argues that tropical forests obey exactly the same rule as their size is reduced. By plugging into the formula the rate at which tropical forests are being cut down throughout the world Wilson puts it at 2 percent per year he obtains the figure of 50,000 species lost each year. (U.S. News, p.82)",0_0
Listed below are but a few of the many salient facts about global warming which conference participants were privileged to hear:,0_0
Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee,0_0
"Agencies get funding appropriations based upon how important they are, or more accurately, how important we are persuaded to think they are. In the case of climate and environmental issues, they appear to be a lot more important when represented to address (certainly not waste) a crisis. Climate change, a topic offering an opportunity to regulate something really dangerous, like natural air, is just too wonderful to pass up.",0_0
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We review continent-wide changes in temperature and rainfall for Africa over the,0_0
The Supreme Court prepares to hear a case challenging the EPA's decision not to regulate carbon dioxide emissions as pollution.,0_0
"Statutory and constitutional reasons also counsel EPA not to finalize the Endangerment Proposal. An endangerment finding will trigger a regulatory cascade with potentially devastating economic impacts that Congress never intended or approved when it enacted 202. Regulatory litigation rather than legislative deliberation will determine the direction of public policy and the extent of the burdens imposed on the private sector, vitiating our democratic system. We could end up with a Mega-Kyoto system without the people's elected representatives ever casting a vote. Moreover, the only way EPA can regulate greenhouse gases under the CAA without risk of administrative chaos and economic disaster is to flout statutory language, play lawmaker, and effectively ""amend"" the statute, violating the separation of powers.",0_0
The July 2012 melt event was a couple of short blips above freezing.,0_0
"37 R. A. Kerr, Greenhouse Forecasting Still Cloudy, Science 276, 1041 (1997).",0_0
"This answer is a quantification of sorts, but it is not a direct quantification like, say, the answer The probability that A is true is 0.673.",0_0
"The purpose of NEPA is to ensure that agencies consider whether their actions may harm the environment. This is a reasonable goal, but one that is very different from the anti-biotech NEPA litigation to obstruct the cultivation of new varieties that are forced to endure years of environmental testing and analysis just to clear approval hurdles. The statute has been hijacked by environmental activists in order to slow or prevent government agencies from taking actions the litigants do not like. Since the law requires agencies to consider almost any conceivable impact, no matter how meticulous the agency is in preparing an Environmental Assessment or EIS, the statute offers fertile ground for bad-faith, obstructionist litigation.",0_0
"One of the most prominent examples of microfinance is Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank, first established in Bangladesh. According to a RAND Corporation study, areas where Grameen Bank offers programs saw unemployment rates drop from 31 percent to 11 percent in their first year. Occupational mobility improved, with many people moving up from low-wage positions to more entrepreneurial ones. There is evidence of increased wage rates for local farmers. Women's participation in income-generating activities also rose significantly.",0_0
Job Title: Interdisciplinary (Climate Change Adaptation Coordinator Cultural Resources),0_0
Siegel says it's more complicated than that. And he argues that literary figures contributed as much to the liberal mindset maybe more than public policy wonks.,0_0
"Originally, EPA ruled that only the direct effect on emissions from the unit being modified would be considered in determining whether an NSR permit was required. More recently, EPA has moved to a more expansive definition in which ancillary increases in emissions from unmodified but ""de-bottlenecked"" units must be included in the calculation of future emissions. For example, the 1992 ""WEBCO Rule"" reads:",0_0
"You know what a world run on fossil fuels is like? Slavery, thats what . No, really your appliances crave freedom, or something:",0_0
Remember the Great Pacific Garbage Patch so beloved of fund-raisers like David Suzuki ? Turns out that its just more junk science than actual junk the amount of plastic covers less than 1% of the ocean area claimed .,0_0
"Interesting to see, however, that the report is co-produced by the Grantham Institute.",0_0
"There are obvious political biases in the report. In many places, it points out how life is really better in France than the United States, and does so by adjusting statistics, such as those on health care. While the statistical manipulations are often justified, the report tends to use examples in which France does well. But in the area of life satisfaction, in which they report that ""people who become unemployed report lower life-evaluations, even after controlling for their lower income,"" we do not get a comparison of France with the United States; the former would do less well in this regard than on a health assessment. A note of unintended amusement in the report occurs where it states that many Europeans do not trust official statistics, but the report neglects to explain that this is partly because successive governments across Europeincluding in Francehave manipulated data, especially unemployment figures.",0_0
"Why listen to pollsters and pundits, when you can get the prediction of a profession that has more experience forecasting than any of those folks?",0_0
"Combat Jump Star has a synopsis of common myths about the US military. For those who dont know CJS, hes a duel citizen of Canada and the United States and has served 2 tours in Afghanistan and 1 in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne. ( I dare you to tell him that the 82nd is the little sister of the 101st). Check out his debunking of some common myths; myths by the way, that are MSM or Leftist boilerplate: 1. All or most soldiers are rednecks from the South. 2. Minorities are being used as ""cannon fodder"" on the front lines. 3. Soldiers are uneducated, or less educated than their peers outside the Military 4. Recruiting is down Cross-posted at Celestial Junk",0_0
"Yes, Im using the term Mulligan as in a replayed golf shot. Ocean-atmosphere processes have consumed most of the warm water in the eastern equatorial Pacific from the downwelling (warm) Kelvin wave that had crossed the Pacific earlier this year. But we recently discussed and illustrated how a pool of subsurface warm water had broken off that Kelvin wave, returned west, and has now fed back into the western equatorial Pacificpriming the equatorial Pacific once again. (See Part 14 Warm Water Recirculated? ) With that recent restocking of warm water in the western equatorial Pacific, it looks like Mother Nature might be giving El Nio a second chance to develop this year.",0_0
"(Of course, Kerry is less of a nutcase. He ""just"" believes that Oswald was directed by the Soviets or Cubans. Well, I would say that a marine who defects to the Soviet Union is probably extreme enough to think of similar acts himself. Even if Kerry were right, I don't think it is an important change to the story. There were surely people in the USSR who would rather openly say that the U.S. president should have been killed along with many other ""imperialists"". And what? They couldn't do it. Oswald could. So even if he had met with some people who told him he should have, why does it matter? He was almost certainly a more unhinged commie than an average member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party so he was still likely to be the key guy behind the murder. Unlike Oswald, the top Soviet officials were sane enough to realize that a murder of JFK wouldn't end capitalism in America etc. so they were less motivated than him, too.)",0_0
"Iranian officials reported the discovery of an oil field containing as much as 10 billion barrels of crude oil in the waters of the Caspian Sea. The find was reported at a depth of around 1.5 miles, however, and Iran seemingly has little experience with deepwater development. With Iran facing a diminishing consumer base because of European sanctions, the find, if correct, could be used as political capital by Tehran should global oil supplies constrict when international sanctions take hold later this summer. Iran insists the world needs its oil and 10 billion barrels of new oil in its pocket certainly makes for attractive bargaining.",0_0
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"Why does the question of climate change science matter so much to conservatives? Why do they fight these battles with liberals and scientists so fiercely, when no one on the national level is suggesting nationwide limits on greenhouse gases?",0_0
Heres how these plots are done (Ive placed the method below in a wrapper function). The mle2 function used here is from Ben Bolkers bbmle package (I suspect that the method could be modified to use the more common mle function).,0_0
"The General Accounting Office has analyzed the stark difference between the two studies and concluded that there are two principal reasons for it. First, the Bush Administration's estimate assumed that all reductions would be achieved domestically, while the Clinton Administration's estimate assumed that compliance would be largely achieved through the purchase of emissions reductions from other nations. Second, the economic growth rate assumed by the Bush study (2.3 percent a year for 1995 through 2010) was higher than the growth rate assumed by the Clinton study (2.1 percent for the same time period), and thus forecast a higher level of emissions. (GAO report, January 30, 2004).",0_0
"(The page was later updated: it says that the pre-programmed biometry data were recorded on March 8th. I would doubt this more modest statement, too.)",0_0
A. Im not here to offer scientific insights. Idont know if the first-half conditions could lead,0_0
"We've been hearing a lot about immigration on the campaign trail, most of it based on outdated assumptions and echoing the arguments made when Congress was considering so-called comprehensive immigration reform bills in 2006 and 2007.",0_0
"PHILIP: Only I just heard your boyfriend here, and shes right. Right twice. You cant bully him into believing a fallacy. Affirming the consequent is as old an error as denying Truth exists. See how you like it. If you hold to fallacies, youre a bully. Youre a bully. Therefore you hold to fallacies.",0_0
"Almost eight years ago, it looked like Rudy Giuliani and Barack Obama could have been going to compete for the White House.",0_0
"Socialist Bolivian President Evo Morales said delegates needed to fight a ?battle between capitalism and life.? Without a strong agreement, global warming ?will keep getting worse,? he warned. Some of his proposed solutions: a ?Climate Tribunal? for ?climate criminals,? implementation of his ?Declaration of Rights? for ?Mother Earth,? and, of course, lots of capitalist money transfers. His sentiments were echoed by representatives of tin-pot dictators around the world ? most of whom love to blame the problems they have created in their own countries on global warming and ?evil capitalist? countries. Morales? counterpart in Venezuela, socialist strongman Hugo Chavez, blamed a downpour that washed away some shanty towns in his utopia on ?capitalism,? too. Their supposed solution: world socialism.",0_0
"Californias western Sierra Nevada had more frequent fires between 800 and 1300 than at any time in the past 3,000 years, according to a new study led by Thomas W. Swetnam, director of UAs Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.",0_0
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) currently awaiting to be turned on at CERN in Geneva will not destroy the Earth. But it can destroy our world : by detecting definitive evidence for so-called dark matter.,0_0
"Charade: Michael Mann again pretends to be an ""involuntary public figure'; Posturing for defamation lawsuit",5_2
"This is an example of gestures that are either weakly or strongly endorsed by roughly 50% of Czechs. I partly agree with the spirit of the letter long-time TRF readers probably know where I would disagree, too.",0_0
13c. How well do ocean models deal with oceanic convection,0_0
"Hans von Storch talking on the article in the Technologist of two groups he says are extremists. One group he calls the alarm lard, the other skeptics (he lgger not the same sense of the word skeptic as I go, because I see a skeptic as one who evaluated ifrgasttande and critical review of the scientific sense).",0_0
"Indeed, it's singular ""I"" this time. After certain career developments I can no longer use the papal plural.",0_0
"As you have surely heard, the Yellowstone Caldera ... the place where Old Faithful and the Geyser Basin reside ... has been undergoing increased activity including some earthquakes and a rising up of the land. Is this a big problem? Should the evacuate? Should those of us living only a few states away start wearing earplugs?",0_0
"Miller, M., Ghate, V., Zahn, R., (2012) The Radiation Budget of the West African Sahel 1 and its Controls: A Perspective from",0_0
"In my opinion, the safest and most expeditious way to remove this hazard is the open burn plan with perimeter monitoring. The EPA has failed to make this case. I suppose they dont like having their decisions questioned.",0_0
"By why is it so important not to admit that the planet has cooled, at least to the public? I must confess that this question has puzzled me, or did until the media and climate panel.",0_0
"I attended these events on the Mall that weekend and found them to be a wonderful antidote to the green hype of Live Earth and, in truth, a better example of true conservation and simple living then the giant rock concerts were. They were a sort of anti-rock festival, with informal singing and craftsmanship taking precedence. And for bizarre reasons, the Folklife Festival itself has itself actually come under attack from the greens. I will share my impressions and get into the controversy later. In the meantime, back to Gore's lies.",0_0
offers a valuable perspective that will be useful particularly for undergraduate courses in earth and atmospheric sciences. Students without a strong grounding in mathematics and physics will find this straightforward account quite approachable and welcome. International Journal of Climatology,0_0
"The engine that connects some pieces of information (e.g. ones about the initial state) with some others (e.g. those about the final state) is completely different in classical theories and in quantum theories. But the information is ultimately the very same thing. We make a measurement and we learn some information from that procedure. Information is whatever distinguishes one's state of ignorance (or knowing less) from the state of knowledge (or knowing more). In general classes of situations, information may be quantified, too. But there's no point in trying to decompose the words ""information"" or ""know"" to words that are more elementary. There are no words that would be more elementary. One must understand at least some words if she wants to be able to say anything about anything. Attempts to ""define"" words like ""know"" inevitably end as a ludicrous worse-than-circular game that ""decomposes"" simple enough words into words that are much more complex, contrived, or subtle or several of these adjectives at the same moment.",0_0
Editorial: Good News Swept Under Rug on Earth Day,0_0
"The big story this week is that Rachendra Pachauri has resigned from the IPCC, over a sexual harassment scandal . I will have an in depth post IPCC in Transition sometime next week.",0_0
"Parson Al winning the Nobel Peace Prize was as predictable as his Oscar for Best Documentary, and represents the final debasement of a once-prestigious award. It used to be that the award went to people of genuine humanitarian or diplomatic accomplishment, like Mother Teresa, Albert Schweitzer or Doctors Without Borders. Now it goes to frauds and poseurs like Rigoberta Menchu, Yassir Arafat, the U.N. (three times now, counting Gore's co-winner, the U.N.'s climate change panel), and Jimmy Carter. About the only way to top this would be to give the next Peace Prize to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. More likely the Nobel committee will, one of these days, simply pat itself on the back and give the award to . . . themselves.",0_0
"Set alternately to Mozarts Requiem and blasts of Metallica, Expedition is like a stoned camping trip to an unimaginably distant location, where your companions are a group of brilliant intellectuals, artists and scientists. No underlying premise for the mission is ever spelled out, nor is the provenance of the antique vessel ever discussed. As for the mind-altering substance on this voyage, its not weed or LSD although the movie does not show us everything that happens on shipboard at night but the extraordinary setting, a pristine Arctic landscape of sea, land, ice and sky so isolated that it has never been mapped or explored. Climate change has opened the fjords of Greenlands northeastern coast to marine traffic for the first time in recorded history, and the members of the Danish expedition were among the first human beings to enter them in thousands of years.",0_0
"According to GlobalData, coal was the leading source of power generation in India last year, with 160 GW, accounting for 59 per cent of installed capacity, and this is expected to almost double by 2025.",0_0
"In addition, Kerry offers a predictable mix of measures to require energy conservation and efficiency, such as higher CAF standards for automobiles. Kerry would also require increased use of renewable energy. Subsidies for rural America are not neglected: ""We can capture emissions reductions opportunities in forests, rangelands, and farmland by providing financial incentive for no-till agriculture and maintaining and increasing natural carbon ""sinks' such as forests and rangelands.""",0_0
"The same story of dramatic progress in reducing emissions ""continues in 2008,"" as EPA tells us on its Web site.",0_0
"As President-Elect Trump has quipped, ""It used to be that cars were made in Flint, and you couldn't drink the water in Mexico. Now our cars are made in Mexico, and you can't drink the water in Flint.""",0_0
"So nothing can be done until the entire planet is united in a full-throated chorus of kumbayas, crying out to stop the scourge of man-made global warming? Interesting. Because I'm pretty sure history shows that such unanimity has never occurred on any major issue and somehow people still get things done.",0_0
The University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH) Land-only TLT trend is +0.3 F/decade.,0_0
"The first astronauts of most nations of the world, including the most capitalist nations, are usually paid by their governments from taxpayers' money.",0_0
In 2006 he was described as the ?Greenpeace Co-ordinator and scenario analyst? in a Greenpeace report produced in conjunction with the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (a solar power lobby group).,0_0
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 13.2 km (8.2 miles); depth +/- 0.5 km (0.3 miles),0_0
"Like spring, bipartisanship is busting out all over. Even more so maybe: Washington in a time of alleged global warming is suffering through a chilly, wet springtime, but bipartisanship is sprouting up like gangbusters.",0_0
"TSA Agent Caught With Passenger's iPad in His Pants; Allegedly Took $50,000 in Other Goods, Cops Say:",0_0
Virgin Islands AG Claude Walker recently withdrew his subpoena of Exxon Mobil. He was a leader among the 17 AGs charging that the oil giant defrauded shareholders by hiding the truth about global warming. That's hard to prove when the company's climate-change research was published in peer-reviewed journals.,0_0
"Recent events have sent the fortunes of ethanol producers skyrocketing, as ethanol fuel has come back with a subsidy-powered roar. In a speech on April 25, 2006, President George W. Bush, known to abstain from drinking the stuff, was nearly rhapsodic about ethanol as fuel:",0_0
"The Earth Guardians ignore all of this, and claim hydraulic fracturing is poisoning our air and water.",0_0
"5. The word ""asbestos"" today has a dangerous connotation. Yet you credit asbestos with saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Why?",0_0
"Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist",0_0
"Nevertheless, what is useful about the heat content data is that it is relatively easy to then calculate from the yearly changes in ocean heat content how much of an energy imbalance (energy flow rate into the ocean) is required to achieve such changes.",0_0
"ecosystems, and the polar regions) and need to be considered in developing scientifically based strategies for societal response to climate change.",0_0
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"knows what works and does not, knows the Congress well from his time there,",0_0
"""After failing to get climate-change legislation through Congress, the Obama administration plans on pushing through its environmental policies through other means, and Republicans are ready to put up a fight.""",0_0
Above: NANSEN Artic ROOS- Sea ice extent 15% or greater click for larger image,1_1
"Their summary report states: ""Moving beyond the ""all of the above' energy approach in the 2012 platform, the 2016 platform draft re-frames the urgency of climate change as a central challenge of our time, already impacting American communities and calling for generating 50% clean electricity within the next 10 years.""",0_0
"Washington, D.C., April 4, 2003The Competitive Enterprise Institute and 17 other public policy groups have sent a joint letter Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM) on the harmful climate policies contained in energy legislation his committee will soon be considering. The current draft bill would create a White House climate czar and an expanded bureaucracy to promote global warming alarmism, require a counterproductive greenhouse gas emissions strategy, and grow a big business lobby for rationing by awarding early action credits.",0_0
Let's not lose sight of what the Doran poll asked:,0_0
"Vast stands of densely packed, water- and nutrient-starved trees skinny matchsticks waiting for a spark are far too common in our Western states, because land mis-managers refuse to thin the trees.",0_0
How will this guy behave if he ever faces REAL danger?,0_0
"Who Turned on the Heat? was introduced in the blog post Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about El Nio and La Nia Well Just about Everything. The Updated Free Preview includes the Table of Contents; the Introduction; the beginning of Section 1, with the cartoon-like illustrations; the discussion About the Cover; and the Closing.",0_0
"Curiously, Simpson's recent introduction of this new ""mirror man"" seemed to generate little attention. This could be a product of our hashtag attention span; a side effect of a world concentrating its seriousness on solving (with hashtag activism?) the grave political and economic difficulties currently in play. Or it could have something to do with the fact that, this time around, Simpson's announcement was perhaps a little bit aprs le fait, and that the habits and attitudes he attributes to this dubiously-named person (softened a little, to be sure) sound remarkably like those of our cubicle mate, our next-door (apartment) neighbor, perhaps even ourselves. Surely, this exaggerated clich is not Us.",0_0
"""We are going to shout a wake-up call,"" said Rucker, ""loud and clear. People need to know just how radical and destructive the agenda that's being promoted for Rio+20 would actually be.""",0_0
"Volkswagen bought koda in 1991 and it's widely appreciated as the most successful example of the post-Velvet-Revolution privatization of a large company in Czechoslovakia. Under Volkswagen's leadership, koda immediately got access to state-of-the-art technologies. For many years, kodas were meant to be cheaper siblings of their more perfect and expensive brothers with the VW logo.",0_0
"But it is the president's last-minute dash to sign a climate-change treaty that is most disturbing. It was barely two weeks ago that talks broke down at the U.N.-sponsored climate-change negotiations in The Hague, capital of the Netherlands. The issue was the means by which industrial nations would be allowed to cut their greenhouse emissionsparticularly carbon dioxideto meet goals set at a similar conference in Kyoto in 1997. Under the protocol, negotiated by Vice President Al Gore, the United States would have had to cut its emissions by 7 percent from 1990 levels by 2012.",0_0
"Kevin, Seems that this potential Nature paper may be worth citing, if it does",0_0
"We need jobs and renewed economic vitality. We all want a clean environment. Since the first Earth Day in 1970, industries of all kinds have made tremendous progress in reducing emissions and improving safety, efficiency and sustainability. They will doubtless continue to make further progress.",0_0
"The proper question to ask is: Should we seek to stop change or should we improve our abilities to adapt to an ever-changing world? America and the world will certainly face catastrophic risks in the future; whether these will be climatic, tectonic, biological, or political is unclear. Since we cannot be sure which risks will prove dominant, we ought to improve our generic ability to survive and recover from whatever dangers the future may hold. Rather than herd America s entrepreneurs, inventors, and workers into some elite s politically-correct industrial policy scheme, we should remove political impediments to production, market-driven innovation, and rapid adaptation.",0_0
"In other words, we should worry about the risks of climate change; we should worry about the risks of geoengineering; and we should apply our most meticulous and careful scientific thought to characterizing these risks. But we should not considerindeed we should remain utterly unaware ofthe risks of forcing wealthier people to stop using, and preventing poorer people from starting to use, the fossil-fuel energy that played a leading and essential role in the vast improvements in human health, prosperity, and life expectancy during the last hundred years.",0_0
"Evaporation is relatively constant from year to year as is seepage, so the formula can be written as:",0_0
"This hardly deals with the nonsense predictor problem. The question is whether a proxy (as arguably bristlecones) are affected by an unrelated trend or by long persistence. Low AR1-coefficient red noise behaves a lot like white noise in that the effects attenuate quickly (""short memory""). The Mannian null test is irrelevant. The null test described here was described in MBH98 (not in Mann et al 2005 as far as I can tell).",0_0
"(As an aside, philosopher of science Karl Popper has written, in The Logic of Scientific Discovery (p. 281):",0_0
The most dramatic changes in atmospheric circulation during the Holocene noted in the Antarctic are the abrupt weakening of the southern circumpolar westerlies 5200 years ago and intensification of the westerlies and the deepening of the Amundsen Sea Low starting 12001000 years ago.,0_0
It is also surprising how much time some folks put into this stuff. One guy wandered through a particular set of photo albums online and did face matches. How many families did they have to go through to find that one?,0_0
"Deese apparently also didn't define what he means by an ""important"" agreement. The Paris Agreement is clearly at the high end of the scale. Indeed, it aims to mobilize trillions of dollars in ""climate finance"" (green foreign aid) over the next 15 years, and commit all nations to restructure their energy policies, markets, and infrastructure.",0_0
"Physics, i.e. the real world and real-world reactions, occur in real-time. Reality doesnt wait around for an average of something to build up and then decide to act reality acts as time flows by, each infinitesimal moment to the next. Reality reacts to instantaneous flux, not the average flux because there is no average that reality waits around for to react to.",0_0
"lot of areas, there probably never will be a single universally superior model",0_0
"Glassman: I have read articles in the New York Times and elsewhere about the observation of some icebreakers saying, ""Wow, there doesn't seem to be as much ice up here . . . """,0_0
"Great Iran Flood, 1954. A storm over Iran produced flooding rains resulting in approximately 10,000 casualties.",0_0
"Republicans need to present attractive policies that address future needs. Good policy, more than ideological positioning, is the key to political success.",0_0
"Let us be realistic: We will not do it all by 2014 ssom we did with the climate and energy package in 2009, says Jos Delbeke",0_0
Tens of millions of forests would be preserved because of fewer wildfires.,0_0
"And that is perhaps why the people who do best in politics so often think like artists rather than like intellectuals: not in terms of clear categories and sharp distinctions, but in terms of new patterns, arrangements and possibilities. For them, the new is never purely new; the old never entirely discarded.",0_0
https://www.aei.org/publication/president-obamas-clean-power-plan-all-cost-no-benefit/,0_0
"Yet the warnings persist. Why? I'm going to repeat what I said, along with my old colleague Howard Fienberg, back in 2001, when there was near panic around Halloween thanks to the events of a few weeks earlier:",0_0
"Is this an example of Jim Hansen's endorsed ""civil disobedience""?",0_0
"What I am saying is that any, and I mean any, attempt to explain barbarous and murderous behaviour by others on Western democracies is just a variant of the middle-class guilt that alleges that we are destroying the planet by having healthy and wealthy lives.",0_0
"Help me with something, dear readers. UK retail gas prices are going up by 20% , apparently because of a hike in wholesale prices caused by turmoil in Libya and demand in Asia. Yet when I look at this chart of US prices, I see no sign of any recent hike worth the mentioning.",0_0
"If, however, one does not believe that Kyoto is a good deal for America, then the consistent position is to oppose subjecting the U.S. to the Law of the Sea Treaty. It is utterly inconsistent to be both opposed to Kyoto and in favor of LOST as written.",0_0
Would You Trust A Doctor Who Got Kickbacks To Prescribe Your Drugs?,0_0
"""It is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible, so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth's climate, before even more lasting damage is done.""",0_0
"Radiation calculaions in global numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate models are usually performed in 3-hourly time intervals in order to reduce the computational cost. This treatment can lead to an incorrect Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI) at the Earth's surface, which could be one of the error sources in modelled convection and precipitation. In order to improve the simulation of the diurnal cycle of GHI at the surface a fast scheme has been developed in this study and it can be used to determine the GHI at the Earth's surface more frequently with affordable costs. The scheme is divided into components for clear-sky and cloudy-sky conditions. The clear-sky component has been described in part I. The cloudy-sky component is introduced in this paper. The scheme has been tested using observations obtained from three Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM) stations established by the U. S. Department of Energy. The results show that a half hourly mean relative error of GHI under all-sky conditions is less than 7\%. An important application of the scheme is in global climate models. The radiation sampling error due to infrequent radiation calculations is investigated using the this scheme and ARM observations. It is found that these errors are very large, exceeding 800 W m -2 at many non-radiation time steps due to ignoring the effects of clouds. Use of the current scheme can reduce these errors to less than 50 W m -2",0_0
"The health of the giant sequoia forests seems to require those frequent, low-intensity fires, Swetnam said. He added that as the climate warms, carefully reintroducing low-intensity fires at frequencies similar to those of the Medieval Warm Period may be crucial for the survival of those magnificent forests, such as those in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.",0_0
"Liberals since the 1920s have claimed to be guided by the laws of science. But often it was crackpot science, like the eugenics movement that sought forced sterilizations.",0_0
Bill Clinton's Shifting Policy on Climate Change,0_0
"Who'd hire a politician? I know, people hire politicians all the time. But name me a politician you'd hire for his or her abilities rather than connections. Name me a politician you'd hire even to mow your lawn.",0_0
"And to do that, the paper suggests, equally dramatic shifts in political power may be needed. ""Is the global governance structure, still dominated by national sovereignty, capable of responding with the coherence and speed needed?"" it asks. ""Or do we need to push the ""reset' button and rethink global governance to meet the 50-50-50 Challenge?""",0_0
"""In the 19th century, laborers from China helped build railroads spanning California and linking the U.S. coasts. In the 21st century, the Chinese may be back not for backbreaking labor, but with financial and technological muscle. """,0_0
Gore explained that the actual point of Kyoto was to demonstrate that international support could be mustered for action on the environmentquite an expensive political exercise.,0_0
"Andrew Simms thinks global warming is exactly like the financial meltdown , but then he also thinks we have only 71 months to save the planet. Hes wrong we only have 11 and a bit , or 4.5 billion of us do.",0_0
"The Laurie Hawn campaign has filed a complaint with the Commissioner of Elections, asking that he review the 2004 final voters roll and determine if any of these fraudulent voters cast ballots in that election. The campaign has also asked him to prosecute anyone who voted more than once - in Edmonton Centre and again in another riding. Our campaign has also requested that voters be required to complete a voter declaration and undertake the elector's oath when voters registered at fraudulent addresses attempt to cast ballots in this election. The Laurie Hawn campaign takes voter fraud very seriously. Any individual who intends to vote illegally in Edmonton Centre should be aware that our campaign will be carefully monitoring the election, and will pursue any violation with Elections Canada to the fullest extent possible.",0_0
"But just as Obama's plans to transform energy and education have failed, so too has his effort to transform health care. Surveys show the American people remain opposed to the program despite years of propaganda and billions of dollars in subsidies. Millions of people still refuse to buy insurance.",0_0
"Recently, the subject of using only one set of measurements to perform a hypothesis test arose. As many are aware, I prefer to average over instruments. But, Im willing to consider each set individually. So, today I did that.",0_0
"The lure is potential future gains from emissions credits that only become ""real"" if Kyoto is implemented (those credits could have a current value if securitized with an appropriate risk factor), as promised by the Credit for Voluntary Early Action Act soon to be introduced by Sens. Chafee, Mack and Lieberman.",0_0
The proposed EPA plan will seriously threaten America's electric reliability,0_0
"Efforts to control Leviathan have evolved slowly throughout our history. As the disciplining effects of controls in the tax and spending area have improved, there has been a natural tendency by regulators to select the least disciplined instrument of regulation. For that reason, regulations have become the preferred tool of special interests and those who believe the public interest is best advanced by expanding political interference in the economy. It is time to begin to subject regulations to the same type of controls to which expenditures have long been exposed. That does not mean that OIRA should presume to ""know"" what regulations are best, but, rather, that OIRA should ensure that the information provided on the costs of regulation (and benefits to the extent these continue to be requested) are reasonably honest and defensible. That goal is ambiguous enoughOIRA should reject all speculative arguments (the various gimmicks discussed in the latter part of the report) based on theoretical deviations from a ""perfect market."" OIRA should examine whether an agency has considered the possibility that existing regulations might have created the problems that the new regulation supposedly ""solves"" and instead call for reducing the scope and scale of government interference in the economy.",0_0
"Alas, given the desperation to announce a ""deal"", Obama backed down. The so-called ""Copenhagen accord"" merely compels developing nations to self-report their emissions every two years and allow outside scrutiny of the data. China is off the hook for the moment, but whether this is enough to satisfy the US Congress when deciding whether to approve any future binding agreement is another matter.",0_0
New York Wind Farms a Bad Decision,0_0
"Even greenies have become so outraged by this ridiculous racket that the Environmental Investigation Agency has described it as the ""biggest environment scandal in history"". Two weeks ago the UN announced that it is suspending payments to five Chinese firms pending an investigation, with a view to a major reform of the system. Last week the EU'c climate change supremo, Connie Hedegaard, said she would be asking her officials to prepare a proposal whereby these particular CFC payments might be halted after 2013.",0_0
Guess the five millions were well spent so far. At least the garlic growers and distributors will think so.,0_0
we as an NGO working on climate policy need such a document pretty soon for the,0_0
When natural disaster strikes it is up to those who can to lend a helping hand.,0_0
"No President has any control over weather events. To FOE, however, this is a call for ""critical environmental justice.""",0_0
"AUSTRALIAS $46 million Antarctic airstrip is melting, leaving the government scrambling to find a new air link to the frozen continent. Related Sea ice ...",0_0
"There are several reasons growth skepticism has come to the fore recently. Rather than being seen in isolation, it is important to examine how these factors interact to explain the rise of an aversion to prosperity.",0_0
"Figure 2. Observed global temperature history, 1950-2009 (black). ""Corrected"" global temperature history (following to Thompson et al., 2008) (red line).",0_0
"Asked whether they understand the issue of global warming only 17 percent said they understand the issue ""very well."" Another 52 percent said they understand if ""fairly well"" while the remainder of those polled said ""not very well"" or ""not at all.""",0_0
In this post I look at two reports which that show a worrying new trend towards the dehumanization of people by referring to children as simply carbon emitters and quite openly arguing that fewer emitters would mean lower emissions at less cost.,0_0
"""When I try to imagine how the future world might look a century from now, I start by trying to conceptualize how people a century ago might have attempted to envision our world today. We have available now some important technologies, like computers or airplanes, that were essentially unimaginable 100 years ago. Maybe a now unimaginable ""photon-based technology' will replace today's electronic technology and deliver such prodigious rates of technological progress with a clean environment that historians then will look back on the previous 100 years and smile at the modest projections of even the growth optimists at the close of the twentieth century. Or, who knows, maybe a century from now people will feel crowded and polluted and very disappointed in a pace of technological change that failed to maintain the productivity growth of the ""golden age' of the industrial revolution during the earlier two centuries from 1800 to 2000.""",0_0
Jim wrote It is interesting to note the tents in the pro-AGW camp .,0_0
Updated: Both map and list above updated with more current information from here.,0_0
"On April 10th, Stephen Beaulieu was arrested for having broken into the home of my former Harvard colleague, the 2005 physics Nobel prize winner Roy Glauber (84). He did it in March: Boston Herald , Google News .",0_0
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute has been a lonely voice in the wilderness of worry, reminding us that our highly populous, highly capitalist, high-tech, and high-energy-use modern world is, in fact, a good world.",0_0
"""But what's wrong with clean air and fresh water?"" the reporter asked.",0_0
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming,0_0
Confused? So am I. Why push for a Clean Power Plan if we are already two-thirds of the way there and headed -- without federal intervention -- lower than the ultimate goal of the plan?,0_0
"""Next year I will be in the Amazon and will live in the treetops for a week.",0_0
"Why the U.S. burns 40% of its corn, despite a global food shortage",0_0
"The scientists explained that the increased cloudiness not only contributes to a reduction of evaporation, but also more effective plant photosynthesis. In turn, the Earth will grow more plant life, thereby reducing the amount of carbon dioxide within the atmosphere. These carbon sinks, particularly ""long-lived, woody plants like trees"", change habitats, ecosystems, biodiversity, and the flows of greenhouse gases, the scientists claimed.",0_0
"Back in the U.S., the American Wind Energy Association the lobby for ""Big Wind"" in Washington, D.C., which includes a few Spanish wind giants also attacked the publication of the Spanish paper.",0_0
Governor: Utilities Could Lose License if Electricity Isnt Quickly Restored,0_0
McCain Vows Another Vote on Energy Rationing Bill,0_0
"Whoops! Don't want our friends at the NEA to see that! Most of the study turns on McKinsey's finding that teacher quality drives student results, way ahead of any other factor, from class size to socioeconomic background:",0_0
India Planning Big Increase In Coal Power,0_0
"the next sentence, where Schneider said, ""I hope that means being",0_0
"2. After a very strong El Nio event, there can be a huge amount of leftover warm water that remains on the surface. There is also a huge volume of leftover warm water thats below the surface, and it rises to the surface with time.",0_0
"I had an interest in tracking down the Kelburn station, just to see how good it is. I was able to find it on Google Earth as an aerial view which you can see below. I was unsuccessful in my first attempts at finding a photograph to document the measurement environment of the Kelburn station. I picked up the hunt again a few days later, and found it hiding in plain site. Thank goodness for tourists.",0_0
"Further, he engages in the breathless confusion or conflation of ""he real 'inconvenient truth' about climate change is that some people are losing their rights and freedoms because of the actions of othersin either the quality of the air they breathe, the geography they hold dear (, the insurance costs they bear or the future environment of the children they love"". Leave for now the tiresome invocation of children in these debates to distract from substantive discussion, and the obvious use of ""climate change"" by insurance companies to raise rates, including on equally faulty models as those used to project climate calamity. In truth, ""climate change""involving non-pollutant greenhouse gases water vapor, carbon dioxide and methaneis simply not an issue about ""air quality"". If the matter is so serious, then it deserves attention to the facts. Speaking of facts, one also senses a bit of the abused-Republican syndrome in the unacceptable ""The fact is, I'm a conservative and a conservationist -- and that's okay."" Please, enough of the Poor Man's Shuffle on these matters; wealthier is healthier, and the pro-growth agenda has proven to be better for the planet than statism.",0_0
"""""Tabletop' undid my undid,"" wrote Solomon in his Amazon blog, ""claiming I could not speak for Peiser. Why can ""Tabletop' speak for Peiser but not I, who have his permission?""",0_0
"That basically applies to all EPA rule making, though in this case the EPA was supposed to answer in 90 days. But last Thursday the agency took another 90-day extension, the third so far. ""We would like to assure you that we are working diligently to provide you with a substantive response,"" the EPA claimed.",0_0
The objective of our study presented here is to assess the scientific consensus on climate change through an unbiased survey of a large and broad group of Earth scientists.,0_0
2) A lot of folks are so completely alienated by the present government that they are quite willing to entertain the notion of an entirely staged mass-murder for effect.,0_0
"Prague Monitor : a review of his text The nuclear boom has quite a tradition. Before the Velvet Revolution, the communists had extremely ambitious plans for new nuclear power plants in",0_0
"I hesitated to say before ""11th Hour"" actually opened how mind-numbingly dull it was for fear that I would ruin it for those interested in the subject of global warming. But at Cannes, when the film by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen was shown to journalists, nearly the entire room fell asleep. A Russian filmmaker told us afterward that she was the only person in the room who was awake at one point.",0_0
"Update - Edmonton Journal article ""mix-up fixed, official says"". Mixup?",0_0
Treating lipid numbers and cholesterol may be the foundation of one of the largest religions in the western world.,0_0
Does Environment Ohio's allegation hold true? Is Rep. Stivers' vote against the Utility MACT akin to poisoning babies? Not by a long shot.,0_0
"Companies that fail to register their energy use by next month will be hit with fines that could reach 45,000 under the little-known rules. Those that do participate in the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) initiative by declaring their energy use will face charges for every ton of greenhouse gas they produce. These payments are expected to average 38,000 a year for medium-sized firms, and could reach 100,000 for larger organisations. James Kirkup, Harry Wallop and Louise Gray, The Daily Telegraph, 11 August 2010",0_0
"It is only since humans learned to harness carbon energy that we have been able to generate sufficient surpluses to support art, culture, academia, bureaucracy and big cities.",0_0
the maximum differential observed between the dryand wet footballs tested under the same conditions was only approximately 0.3 psig.,0_0
This is the sixth time in the last seven years there has been an oversupply of carbon offset allowances.,0_0
"Over the last few weeks, Heartland has lost at least $825,000 in expected funds for 2012, or more than 35% of the funds its planned to raise from corporate donors, according to the campaign group Forecast the Facts , which is pushing companies to boycott the organisation.",0_0
"or, a wind farm over 4.6 kms wide, stretching from Regina to Prince Albert (or 1 km wide from Regina Victoria, BC)",0_0
There's a lot of chatter about the fact that GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt is backing off his obsession with green technology and climate change. In a speech at MIT recently he said:,0_0
The Hill discusses GOP efforts to dismantle the Paris climate agreement with Myron Ebell.,0_0
We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject.,0_0
"Anyway, about that silly 97%: from the conclusion (first paragraphs put there by me):",0_0
"We spun around, and aaaah, dear heavens, it wasnt a breaking wave at all, although a wave was breaking, instead it was my old friend Missus Fishbreath breaking the surface just behind the boat, and breaking my heart with the slow-moving stillness of her majestic beauty, a great gray whale dancing her way three thousand miles from the tropics to Alaska. As we turned and gaped, we were looking her right in the eye, and then she rolled our way and opened her blowhole so close to the boat we could almost look down it, it was as big as a dinner plate, we were close, close enough to count the barnacles clinging to her hull, she was the very picture of natural wildness and glorious beauty and unimaginable power, my heart leapt to see it ... and she blew out a great cloud of gagging mist, a noxious enveloping adherent miasma reeking of the million vanished piscatorial souls of her most recent months meals, a clogging, thick effluvium that enveloped the boat and then drifted away to leeward as the lovely lady disappeared beneath the waves ...",0_0
New Zealand emits just 0.11% of global emissions. Im going to write it BIG so people can see it:,0_0
"In July 1997, CEI held a full-day conference on the economic and political implications of climate change policy. Later that year we published The Costs of Kyoto: Climate Change Policy and Its Implications, a book based on the papers written for that conference. We also produced a conference highlights video with the same title. In addition, CEI conducted a congressional staff briefing, published nearly a score of op-eds and columns, and participated in numerous media interviews, press conferences, and educational symposia on global warming.",0_0
"With the Governor calling for such a radical reorganization of Californians' lives, we need to ask what problem Schwarzenegger and his environmentalist allies are trying to solve. The Governor's executive order claims human-caused climate change threatens to increase California's air pollution, reduce its water supplies, increase heat-related mortality, infectious diseases and asthma, harm the state's agricultural industry, and flood the state's 1,100 miles of coastline.",0_0
"And what of the big ruckus with The Status Quo? Australian cap-and-traders just postponed their fight. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a number of reasons, including the need for business certainty (a plus for a carbon tax, by the way) and the impact of the global financial crisis. Does it make any sense to raise taxes, implicitly or explicitly, in the midst of a recession?",0_0
"""Tesla, in turn, would pay Toyota $42 million for the shuttered Fremont, California, assembly plant that had previously build Toyota Corollas (and Pontiac Vibes) in a partnership with General Motors that was dissolved following GM's 2009 bankruptcy.""",0_0
"When it comes to health and environmental issues, As You Sow whose slogan is ""Planting Seeds for Social Change"" is clever. It doesn't mire itself in time-consuming debate about whether scientific data indicate that particular consumer products may be harmful to health or the environment, or whether product benefits are outweighed by whatever risks they may entail.",0_0
The global warming hysteria movement has waxed and is now waning. It will soon recede as a threat to our liberties and prosperity.,0_0
"Morano, who runs the anti-climate blog Climate Depot, says conservative voters' views against global warming have solidified in the last two years. Unlike other Republican candidates, like former Govs. Tim Pawlenty (Minn.) and Mitt Romney (Mass.), Gingrich is ""defiant"" about his past climate indiscretions, Morano says.",0_0
Could Amazon's bulk-email service spawn spam and malware?:,0_0
"The IPCC model (first graphic below), and all other greenhouse effect models such as this one fromHarvard (second graphic),",0_0
"But overall, Donna Laframboise is to be congratulated for writing an important book. Read it, it costs only $4.99 on Kindle.",0_0
"Yet, from the perspective of natural rights or indeed common sense some modern court rulings have turned the element of standing upside down. Activists such as environmentalists can get standing to challenge a policy with the most trivial of injuries. On the other hand, small-business owners who suffer very definite injuries from laws and regulations that harm their livelihoods typically face an uphill battle in getting their day in court.",0_0
"Bob Jarrett, of the BHF-BSSA Group, a trade body that represents thousands of independent shops, said ministers had not done enough to explain or justify the CRC. ""We've only come across this in the last few weeks, and yet the deadline is at the end of next month. The Department for Energy has not given this nearly enough publicity,"" he said.",0_0
Chinese Famine of 1936-5 million Chinese die in what is called the New Famine,0_0
"Virginia has recognized the negative unintended effects of government failure in other areas. The attorney general is courageously leading the charge against Obamacare and the global warming establishment, for example. Here too the commonwealth should avoid actions that could hamper the positive relations needed between the law enforcement and the immigrant community.",0_0
Toxic spill from Colorado mine creeps through US southwest,0_0
"""I advise friends of energy abundance, economic growth, and limited government to hang tough. Team Obama has got to know that EPA cannot control the regulatory cascade once it starts, that the results could be economically devastating, and that they won't be able to blame G.W. Bush. If they open Pandora's Box, there will be political hell to pay, and they know it. When the greenhouse gang invoke the specter of regulation if we don't support their cap-and-trade program, we should say: ""First you take that gun away from our head, and then we'll discuss the merits of your bill.""",0_0
"This is the classic closed question, in that it implies mean global temperatures are being changed and someone must be responsible.",0_0
The result is an infrastructure that will soon be unable to meet the demands of the American economy. Policy makers must act now to re-empower America.,0_0
"Much of the climate community still views with deep suspicion or outright hostility. Geoengineering, many say, is a way to feed society's addiction to fossil fuels. ""It's like a junkie figuring out new ways of stealing from his children,' says Meinrat Andreae, an atmospheric scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany.",0_0
"As the story approaches the end of the 1930s, Shlaes's most interesting subtext comes to the fore: the evolution of FDR's 1940 challenger Wendell Willkie. In the early chapters Willkie is seen as a nave utility executive with reformist sympathies who thought he could cut deals with FDR, only to be bitterly disappointed when he was ground up along with the rest of the malefactors of great wealth. He couldn't say he wasn't warned. Insull told Willkie in 1934: ""Mr. Willkie, when you are older you will know more.""",0_0
Prison Planet and the New York Times bring a heartbreaking story:,0_0
"And why, once having obtained a reply, would they post it on Alenes blog, as happened with the above exchange?",0_0
"Many environmental experts believe UNEP is too underpowered for dealing with a crisis that now ranges from climate change and ozone depletion to overfishing, pollution and deforestation.",0_0
Palestine is latest GOP offensive in climate change wars,0_0
"In November 2004, a few days after the U.S. presidential election, President Vladimir Putin signed a bill confirming Russia's commitment to the Kyoto Protocol, insuring the climate change treaty would come into force early this year.",0_0
"Mother Nature doesn't seem to care much about our puny energy productionbut to the humans who must live here, the real science behind global warming matters a very great deal.",0_0
Shocker. George Soros Dumps $1 Million Into Media Matters Sinkhole:,0_0
"How nice it must be to have convenient scapegoats like ""dangerous manmade global warming"" and insurance companies today's equivalent of the witches whom our predecessors blamed for storms, droughts, crop failures, disease and destruction. It's time to use the witches' brooms to clean house.",0_0
"As you can see, the error in the trends, although small, is statistically different from zero in both cases. However, when I use the fat-tailed exponential decay function, I get the following results.",0_0
Testimony of John R. Christy Addressing NOAA's recent temperature claims,0_0
"In general, a vegetarian diet is more energy efficient than a nonvegetarian one, which is something that environmental groups regularly highlight. Overall, however, we found that meat consumption is only responsible for slightly more indirect energy use than fruit and vegetable consumption, and there are wide variations in how many calories it takes to produce different meats. This suggests that while growing vegetables in your backyard is certainly more energy efficient than buying beef, cutting out meat entirely may not be the most painless way for Americans to meaningfully reduce their energy consumption.",0_0
"(ii) The intention would be to fund scholarships from income from the fund (both investment income and additional donations), rather than from the Nobel Prize Capital, So THAT the fund would be perpetual.",0_0
A report on the flood disaster and climate change will be undertaken by an expert on the federal governments multi-party committee which is investigating ways to price carbon.,0_0
"Entire communities could sink into poverty. Bread winners lucky enough to find work will be forced to take multiple jobs, commute longer distances, and suffer severe sleep deprivation. Families will have to cope with more stress, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, spousal and child abuse. Nutrition and medical care will suffer. More people will have strokes and heart attacks.",0_0
"It certainly is NUTS to the average taxpayer who is funding this through their utility bill, in fact it is the height of absolute lunacy)",0_0
"In recent years, however, there's been a trend toward both political correctness and trendiness. Remember that the International Atomic Energy Agency and Jimmy Carter were recent Nobel Laureates.",0_0
"Though the remarks have generated a good deal of media coverage, there is no inherent contradiction between these two views.",0_0
"Jacksonian America is many things; well organized isn't one of them. Jacksonians are found in both political parties; most are habitually indifferent to national politics, seeing all politicians as equally corrupt, equally useless. Other than the NRA, there are not many national organizations organized around the promotion of a Jacksonian agenda. In the world of think tanks and elite media, the Jacksonian voice is seldom heard and never heeded.",0_0
"boondoggle"": fully 20 per cent of the U.S. corn crop went into creating",0_0
"Finally we reach the last lookout. The sun is dazzling, the view breathtaking. I can't help but love it.",0_0
"In a way, that really is what they were marching against. Mostly. Let me explain.",0_0
Oh well. Frdrjningen located at the current situation entirely in the deep sea.,0_0
"The petition, and Robinson's support for DDT in combating the malaria pandemic, drew anger and outrage from the political Left, climate chaos industry and ""mainstream media,"" giving him his first brush with the politics of personal destruction. But it did not prepare him for the lengths and depths his opponents would go to ""discourage"" his political activities.",0_0
"But when the Supreme Court saved FDR from this folly by ruling it unconstitutional, FDR veered farther left, with punitive tax measures that deterred capital formation and investment, and prosecutions of the rich (especially Samuel Insull and Andrew Mellon) that were purely political. The result of these and other ill-conceived measures was a needlessly prolonged Great Depression.",0_0
Also the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector from Luke 18:10-14 could not be clearer:,0_0
"""God's word is true. I've come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big-bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. It's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior."" U.S. Rep. (and M.D.) Paul Broun of Georgia.",0_0
MOOSE: Always a mamas boy. But youre not gettin outta here until you have it. Now. Do you have it . Yes or no?,0_0
"1997 A year in which the accepted ""truth"" about climate change began to melt away. Prophets of doom foretold of a greenhouse world of increasing heat, disease, flooding, and unpredictability. Science argued otherwise, seeing a reduction in severe cold, a longer healthier life span, and a more begnign climate. In this, our third annual States of the Climate Report, we examine perceptions of risk and related realities.",0_0
"Rothbard was immediately followed by executive director Craig Rucker who discussed the state of climate policy in the United States and the why it is in Poland's national interest to join with those around the globe standing up to the Greens and the UN. Both talks received enthusiastic applause and extensive media coverage. Over a dozen news outlets, including Polish National Television, France 24, India national newspaper The Hindu, and the Associated Press, were on hand to report.",0_0
"In the \(d=4\) case, we may see that this Green-Schwarz mechanism makes the previously anomalous \(U(1) a\) gauge boson massive and the ""Stckelberg"" mass is just an order of magnitude or so lower than the string scale (which they therefore assume to be \(M s\approx 20\TeV\)). This is normally viewed as an extremely high energy scale which is why these possibilities don't enter the conventional quantum field theoretical models.",0_0
"It's not surprising that instead of taking credit for the dire results of this coal-killing agenda in an election year, the Obama administration is claiming that lower natural gas prices are the reason utilities are switching from coal to natural gas.",0_0
"The skeptic website klimamanifest-von-heiligenroth.de/ last week posted a freshly produced video (in German) that puts the spotlight on the director of the ultra-alarmist Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber.",0_0
"525 km (325 miles) S of Hachijo-jima, Izu Islands, Japan",0_0
"How reassuring that must have seemed in July. I suggest they send their opinion pollsters back and ask the public again now, preferably starting with cold and angry rail passengers. Bizarrely, given that one of the authors employed to write the report was Chris Green, former chief executive of Virgin Railways, it hardly mentions railways or airports.",0_0
"In the second of his National Review columns (September 26, 2007), Joel rips these lame excuses to shreds. He cites several statements in Heat Advisory and the accompanying press release in which NRDC clearly presents its findings as predictions of what will happen in a warming world.",0_0
Lets clarify whats been presented during the discussion of the Rest-of-the-World sea surface temperature data:,0_0
"From my late aunt, Rose Kazman. During World War II her grueling stay in Soviet labor camps saved her from an even worse fate at the hands of the Nazis, but she never lost sight of the true nature of her hosts.",0_0
"Nothing screams planet-in-peril crisis like interpretive dance. Its a little known fact that every major crisis in history has needed a slideshow, $300 million in advertising, an opera and dance before it was taken seriously, right? Oh, well, nevermind, this is Crisis 2.0 and it needs dance , because the planet is doomed and its your fault.",0_0
"The initial cost of installing the system, for one. That typical 2.5kW system costs around 12,500 to install. So you won't see any return on your investment for 12 years.",0_0
"Washington, D.C., March 27, 2006Tomorrow the British government will issue a new report on climate change in the United Kingdom, which is expected to refuse once again to impose carbon dioxide emissions limits on British industry. It is a reflection of the reality that the Competitive Enterprise Institute has long pointed to in the United States and abroad.",0_0
"Mann, it turns out, routinely criticizes his own opponents in the harshest terms. And not just journalists like Steyn. Take Judith Curry, the chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.",0_0
"The Freedom of Information Act allows citizens to demand to see the official correspondence of government employees (George Mason University is public.) Horner works at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a think tank that is skeptical that global warming is a serious problem.",0_0
"Even those uninhibited by past failure understand how tough the road will be. But there are more grounds for optimism than for despair, more thoughtful participants than ever before, more on both sides committed to making things work rather than pointing fingers at their colleagues, and thuseven in a time when it has become suspectmore hope.",0_0
"president win in a landslide, or by a narrow margin; did he have any coat-tails;",0_0
"What will not be resolved at Cancun is the core dispute in the climate talks: fixing legally binding targets for nations to reduce greenhouse gases emitted by industry, vehicles and agriculture.",0_0
"The Times added, ""Illarionov on Thursday accused the EU of putting ""unprecedented pressure' on Russia to ratify the treaty and embrace the ideology of what he called ""Kyotism.' "" Attempts to pressure Russia into taking a decision can only be seen as an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation,' he said.""",0_0
"President Bush's EPA resisted listing carbon dioxide as an air pollutant on two grounds. The first was definitional. ""Air pollution"" is not defined in the statute, but under normal rules of construction it must mean something, and absent any other guidance the logical source of wisdom is a dictionary, which defines ""pollute"" as meaning ""to make . . . impure or unclean."" So a pollutant must be something that is not only emitted, but something that renders the air impure, which can hardly be said of carbon dioxide. Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent commented: ""It follows that everything airborne, from Frisbees to flatulence, qualifies as an ""air pollutant.' This reading of the statute defies common sense."" Marlo Lewis of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) observes that any other interpretation also makes the ""precursor"" sentence redundant, because if everything emitted is an air pollutant, then precursors would be pollutants automatically. The Court brushed aside this perfectly conventional (and correct) argument from statutory interpretation, finding the statute ""unambiguous"" in its meaning that anything emitted is a pollutant. Since the EPA had already said that carbon dioxide contributes to climate change, which endangers public health and welfare, it had no choice but to put it on the regulatory agenda.",0_0
"Jerry Cutler, one of the world's top experts on the health benefits of low-level radiation, writes about radiation's ability to reduce cancer risk. Cutler examines the history of misinformation concerning the purported dangers of low-level radiation exposure and reviews the copious research showing the benefits of such radiation in certain courses of medical treatment.",0_0
"SM: There's been really two Alan Greenspans. There's the pre-1999 Green-span: up to that point I wanted to give him a Nobel Prize in economics. I think, in the last two years, his star has faded somewhat. On the other hand, I think that some of my good supply-side friends have maybe been a bit too tough on him. Remember, the errors in monetary policy that we are talking about today are trivial compared to the errors in the 1970s. I mean, people are saying, are we 25 or 50 basis points too high or low, do we have slight price inflation? I mean, hell, when I graduated from college, we had a 13.5 percent inflation rate. Nobody in their right mind would invest for the long term with inflation rates that high. Hopefully we've learned our lesson and we are not going to return to the dysfunctional monetary policies we had in place in the late 1960's and throughout the 1970's.",0_0
"That the Texas Legislature should ""ignore, oppose, refuse, and nullify"" federal laws it doesn't like.",0_0
"""Well, this is getting interesting. Last week, we noted that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, alone among the other G8 leaders, questioned today's copyright laws, suggesting that they did not fit with the times, and pointed out that these century-old laws don't seem to fit with today's internet. Glyn Moody now points us to the news that Medvedev appears to be going even further than just condemning today's copyright laws. He's now looking to adjust Russia's copyright laws in the other direction:""",0_0
Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change features:,0_0
"Thanks to the grace of God, I have made a full recovery and feel fantastic at my new weight. Cycling up hills is incredibly easy now.",0_0
"The tinier specks, EPA asserts, ""can get deep into your lungs, and some may even get into your bloodstream."" Eliminating all such particles in our air is absolutely essential to human health, longevity and well-being, the agency insists. There is no threshold below which there is no risk, its advisors say.",0_0
"In any event, seems like the lawyers stand to be substantially enriched.",0_0
"Congressman James Sensenbrenner wrote to Ms. Zoi two days later, asking five specific questions about how and by whose instruction this NREL paper was produced. On January 6, 2010, Zoi wrote back with a one-paragraph reply which either failed or refused to provide answers to any of the queries.",0_0
"The Kyoto conference achieved an anti-American outcome and was designed to do so. The treaty provides that the United States will experience hardships that other industrial countries will avoid. The United Nations provided the institutional framework for this outcome, but notice that we deliberately used the United Nations, not the other way around. American officials realized that if they were to do what the enviros wantget the price of gasoline up to $3 a gallon and reduce energy use by one-third, among other thingsthis could more easily be attained in a U.N. forum than by the Democratic Party. If we are to be loaded down with tax increases, better that anonymous foreign bureaucrats take the blame than the Clinton White House.",0_0
"From the Oval Office point of view, bad as the results of the current policy were, there were no better alternatives. But the pressure to ""do something"" was continuous. Both within and beyond the administration, the criticism was devastating, and the consciences of many administration officials were increasingly burdened by the lack of American response. Given the immovable object of the President's refusal to escalate, and the irresistible force of criticism, the administration sought to ease the pressure through two approaches. First, it would try to buy off humanitarian critics by making statements of disapproval about the Assad government's tactics. Second, it would seek to work with Russia for a cease fire that would stop, or at least significantly slow, the bloodshed, while creating a framework for a political negotiation leading to a stable Syria in the future.",0_0
"Spencer, ""Blue Ribbon Commission on Nuclear Waste: Missing Opportunity for Lasting Reform.""",0_0
"We recently replaced our audio system with a Bluetooth one. When my daughter asked how it worked, the best I could offer was its magic. For most of us, it does not matter that we do not know how our smartphone works. We know what it is supposed to do. We know when it does not work. We know how to read online reviews. We rely on experts, but we know how to tell a reliable one from a charlatan.",0_0
"The likeliest explanation for all this is that OSTP's Polar Vortex video was originally produced and posted not as the personal opinion of the agency's director, but as an agency project. OSTP sought, and succeeded, in getting widespread news coverage for the film. But once its inaccuracy became clear, the agency invoked the personal opinion excuse as a way of avoiding accountability, and it did its best to maintain that fa ade even if it meant going through time-consuming and expensive litigation.",0_0
"""Nothing ends here,"" Reagan assured a heartbroken nation that night. ""Our hopes and our journeys continue.""",0_0
"If an industry becomes obsolete, there is no preventing the shedding of jobs as the market transitions to a new good or service. That is not what?s happening here. What?s happening here is the targeting of a bedrock American industry by a President who thinks he?s saving mother Earth.",0_0
"The Wells Report reported that the standard deviation of Patriot pressure measurements was 0.40 psi (11 balls), as compared to 0.144 psi (4 balls) for the Colt balls, but were unable to find that this difference was statistically significant because the small number of Colt balls meant that standard tests had little power.",0_0
The weekly Reynolds OI.v2 data for Figures 1 and 2 are available through the NOAA NOMADS webpage here .,0_0
"Clooney, Google, UN Team Up to Watch Sudan Border:",0_0
"Im not clear on what an orbital subtraction point might be, and dont have time to chase it down right now, but thought maybe someone could enlighten (or maybe I can entice Sparks into an expanded bit of text here).",0_0
"Bao and LSU graduate students Bryan Killingsworth and Justin Hayles, together with Chuanming Zhou, a colleague at Chinese Academy of Sciences, had an article published on Feb. 5 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , or PNAS , that provides new clues on the duration of what was a significant change in atmospheric conditions following the Marinoan glaciation.",0_0
"Professor Jonathan Ashmore, Chair of the Judges said: Lynas gives us a compelling and gripping view of how climate change could affect our world. It presents a series of scientifically plausible, worst case scenarios without tipping into hysteria. Six degrees is not just a great read, written in an original way, but also provides a good overview of the latest science on this highly topical issue. This is a book that will stimulate debate and that will, Lynas hopes, move us to action in the hope that this is a disaster movie that never happens. Everyone should read this book.",0_0
"In fact, the movie's very concept comes across as a forced attempt at a political statement. It's the first time director Roland Emmerich, whose previous hits include Godzilla, Independence Day, and The Patriot, has delved into a moribund genre: the disaster movie. Remember The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure, and the myriad Airport movies?",0_0
"As a position paper intended for their first group session put it, in the customary glutinous prose of the organization's internal documents: ""the U.N. should be able to take the lead in setting the global agenda, engage effectively with other multinational and regional organizations as well as civil society and non-state stakeholders, and transform itself into a tool to help implement the globally agreed objectives.""",0_0
"Society seems hell-bent on encouraging the tribalization of itself and the nation. Women blame men for the world's ills, and make masculinity impossible. They huddle together, and the worst aspects of their femininity are exacerbated the closer they do sowhy else do even highly educated female lawyers, doctors, and other professionals commonly refer to their female friends as bitches and whores? If only to get away from the screechiness and the bitchiness, men retreat either into the man-cave of the perpetual fraternity, or beyond even that, into the cave of spornosexuality.",0_0
"Early explorers to Brazil and Zaire were probably the first to use the word ""jungle"" because as they traveled through on boats, riverbanks were tangled with vegetation and they thought the interior was probably that way too. But the edges have thicker plant growth because of extra light. Interior is made of trees, shrubs, vines, ferns and other plants ""growing to form a complex system of layers."" (NWF Educator's Guide)",0_0
"MOOSE: When I say get over here, it means get over here. You savvy?",0_0
"Gosh, hidden climate change may threaten eelgrass meadows",0_0
"But smoke from open fires choked cities, forests were stripped of trees, most of the crops went to feed draft animals, and streets were littered with horse manure. For many people, life was nasty, brutish and short.Then the steam engine was developed, and later the internal combustion engine, electricity and refrigeration came along.",0_0
"In 1938, just a few years shy of an ice axe to the forehead, Trotsky wrote his polemic, Their Morals or Ours , to differentiate the morals of Stalinism from those of what Trotsky alternatively termed Leninism and Bolshevism. In his pamphlet, Trotsky claimed that the ultimate endthe end that needs no justificationis the liberation of mankind. In other words, any intermediate endany end that serves as a means to another endis justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man. 2 True Marxist thought.",0_0
"In inline comments (see here and here ), Osborn re-iterated their false assertion that I had advocated these chronology versions.",0_0
"on the benefits, campaign to keep taxes down, and start saving on your",0_0
"No. Smith said the company cant determine individual appliance usage, only overall household usage.",0_0
"BEDEMIR: Quiet, quiet. Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.",0_0
"At the NATO summit in Riga in November 2006, a little-noticed transatlantic revolution of sorts finally occurred when the Atlantic Alliance acknowledged that it would have to ""go global"" in order to remain relevant. Divided, America and Europe will fall; united, they can retain the lead. But all manners of ""going global"" are not equal, and the coming globalization of NATO is as much full of promises as it is fraught with perils.",0_0
"Although Cyclone Aila brought much suffering to the people, it helped to rescue the land a little. During the two years in which the dikes were broken, the polder rebounded with tens of centimetres of sediment deposited by daily tides. The mud caused havoc in the short term by flooding peoples floors and gardens, but offers the possibility of long-term sustainability for delta ground.",0_0
"The only way around that is higher costs. YOU can pay a lot more in every single bill, keeping staff ready and on call, keeping extra spare parts paid for in inventory, waiting for the once ever 50 year event. OR, you can accept that in this kind of expected and not exceptional, but infrequent, event; it will take a long time to rebuild a broken system.",0_0
"However, the term ""air pollutant"" is used in other parts of the Clean Air Act, most notably in the programs on prevention of significant deterioration and air quality standards. In these contexts, listing carbon dioxide is a disaster because the programs cover not just a few automakers but millions of businesses of every sort, and in many cases the agency does not have the discretion to decline to do stupid things. As CEI's Lewis puts it:",0_0
James Murray you just turned Climate Change Blame into a useful weapon for exercising personal hatred.So James dont play into it.,0_0
"It is here, according to HVS ,. frbisett to trovrdigheten from the social process called science is reduced. It vrsta is that this applies allmnhetens faith in the objective analysis of facts and probabilities in frga that frutse samhlleliga impact (of global warming, I guess HVS mean).",0_0
"Eastern Equatorial Pacific (5S-5N, 155W-80W)",0_0
"The plan to move the EU ETS system to other large, developing countries, and then to a global carbon trading market system by 2020, is only marginally closer to fruition than when the EU ETS was first established in 2005.",0_0
"Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says the Democrats' platform could end up constricting the U.S. economy.",0_0
"Slowly, we are starting to make an impression on politicians responsible for the kangaroo courts. It's great to see some plain talk from a cabinet minister actually responsible for a provincial human rights commission. Here's Alberta cabinet minister Lindsay Blackett: It wasn't about hurt feelings. The reason a lot of human rights commissions are disrespected across the country is because they've forgotten that. We want the commission to be a quasi-judicial body that has some teeth, that has some credibility but doesn't operate like a kangaroo court. Bravo, Mr. Blackett. This is a step in the right direction, and by a man who is in a position to make a difference. Personally, I'd go further and abolish the commissions altogether, but reigning them in is a great step in the right direction.",0_0
"Ideally the government should not have to support nuclear power with federal loan guarantees. Nuclear power is relatively inexpensive to generate once a plant is built, but construction of these plants entails a substantial up-front capital cost, possibly $8 billion each. Generating private investment is difficult due to the possibility of lawsuits and regulatory delays. Instead of providing loan guarantees, Mr. Obama could have aided the nuclear power industry through protection from lawsuits.",0_0
"When pieces of the Aletsch fell into Lake Mrjelenwhich lies between the two glaciersthe lake overflowed. Three hundred and fifty-three million cubic feet (10 million cubic metres) of water rushed down the valley below, inundating settlements, damaging property, and killing villagers. Extremely poor until the late 19th century, the locals had few options but to rebuild.",0_0
"To that I would add many of those serving in conservative think tanks, foundations, advocacy groups, publications, and websites. They provide the intellectual cover for Republicans eager to flatter their way into what they fancy will be real membership in the aristocracy. Thus Limbaugh rightly observes, ""Our battle is as much with those in the Republican Party who defend statism as with the radicals in the Democrat Party.""",0_0
"Without comprehensive seismic mapping and exploration, an accurate estimate of the recoverable natural resources that are currently locked up on federal lands and the continental shelf is unlikely. However, the combination of a rational regulatory environment with open access would likely put a 50 percent increase within reach.",0_0
"In November, the public will give a cold shoulder to a bunch of intellectually frozen hypocrites who demand economic sacrifice to solve a problem that voters don't see or feel. At least for a while, the left will have to think up a new way to dictate a lifestyle for the rest of us. Maybe now the science can continue without the clumsy overreaching of the movement's priestly class.",0_0
Click below to see text of the first 12 pages of Google searches for australian antarctic airstrip melting. Google was still finding the story in obscure hamlets and villages after the 12 pages. See if you can spot your town. I have never seen anything like this.,0_0
"The car as we know it will be replaced, just as the car replaced the horse. But the horse was not replaced by central government planning or command and control regulation. Its replacement was the result of the ingenuity of talented inventors and the skill of good managers.",0_0
"SM: I wish I could figure out Warren Buffett. I call these people, like Warren Buffet, who made all this money, who want high taxes and the death tax retained ""Billionaire Bozos."" I just wish Warren Buffet understood the capitalist system better because he sure has made a lot of money off of it.",0_0
"A second major breakthrough occurred as the PA, recognizing that it had provided its people with few of the benefits of good governance, concluded that reform was necessary. Today, a visitor traveling in the West Bank sees evidence of progress: a growing economy, a coherent scheme of security, and a leadership that talks seriously about such things as planning, education, and economic development. Palestinians of considerable abilitySalam Fayyad, Ali Jarbawi, and Hazem Attallah, to name a feware at work developing the infrastructure of statehood.",0_0
"First of all, as the first commenter says, the owner would be puzzled why a structural engineer has such strong opinions about electrical wiring. ;-) Second of all, a sane person would try to determine - regardless of the ""sign"" of the expert's testimony - whether the structural engineer's opinion was trustworthy and based on objective expertise or whether it was driven by some other interests, for example the profit for his or her company. Related: A fresh interview with Steven Chu about the Day After Tomorrow (in reality), how he wants things to be bad (but not awful) - talk about a wishful thinking, and why architects should paint roofs white so that air-conditioning may be reduced (much like the intensity of light bulbs) and the Earth is cooled down - wow! ;-) Thanks to Willie Soon. Also, a sane person would pretty quickly discard the first recommendation because it came from a woman, as Chu proudly told us. Only about 15% of structural engineers are women and 70% of those got to the field because of affirmative action (before this movement began to be intense 15 years ago, there were about 5% of women in that field), so there is clearly something suspicious going on here, if the first catastrophic testimony comes from such an unexpected source.",0_0
"""Its roughly the size of half a football pitch and about 20m high. It will take some time to put out,"" he said.",0_0
"Climatic Research Unit, Hubert Lamb Building, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK",0_0
"Not since he fought with Nicholas Biddle over the future of the Bank of the United States has Andrew Jackson been this controversial or this central in American political life. Jacksonian populism, the sense of honor-driven egalitarianism and fiery nationalism that drove American politics for many years, has never been hated and reviled as often as it is today, and many American academics and intellectuals (to say nothing of Hollywood icons) are close to demanding that Jacksonian sentiment be redefined as a hate crime.",0_0
"""The Daily Caller has learned the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) never had the authority to issue waivers from Obamacare's annual limit requirements. """,0_0
"But I am able to find enough courage to unambiguously say that in the new cold war and related matters, I am on the side of the current president Russia, a man whom I deeply respect for the detached view, restraint, and balance with which he is responding to the provocations by the West, and for his matter-of-fact, transparent reactions to all the accusations and lies surrounding all the recent events.",0_0
"The USDA finished its draft EIS for alfalfa in 2009 and, by December 2010, it had jumped through the hoops necessary to re-approve the crop. But in spite of the conclusion of the environmental review that the genetically engineered alfalfa was substantially equivalent to other varieties and posed no problems for regulators, farmers, or consumers, Secretary Vilsack proposed reapproving the product only on the condition that it not be planted within five miles of non-genetically engineered seed crops, solely to help make production a little easier for organic farmers. That restriction would have made an estimated 20 percent of the nation's alfalfa production, and nearly half in western states such as California and Oregon that are significant alfalfa producers, off-limits to the Roundup Ready variety.",0_0
"This is right out of the Washington politician play book. When told you are doing something wrong, just deny it. Say you did the opposite of whatever it was you did and then try to change the topic or discredit whoever offered the criticism.",0_0
Efforts to add an amendment on climate change to the Senate energy bill are dealt a setback.,0_0
"Under the NEPA statute, every agency may establish a set of ""Categorical Exclusions"" that exempt whole classes or types of activities from the EIS obligation. These may include routine or repetitive actions that, based on past experience, do not have significant impacts on natural, cultural, recreational, historic, or other resources; and also those that do not otherwise, either individually or cumulatively, have any significant environmental impacts. Because they fall into those categories, most small-scale field trials of genetically engineered plants have been categorically excluded by the USDA.",0_0
"On Friday through Sunday, the region was covered by a moist, relatively unstable air mass that brought strong thunderstorm activity and lots of lightning. The proximate cause was an upper level low that was slowly moving up the coast, resulting in southeasterly flow in the lower atmosphere (see 500 hPa map, roughly 18,000 ft, for Saturday at 5 PM below).",0_0
"While some advocates like to make grand, sweeping statements about rainforest loss and put in big numbers that make it sound catastrophic, Roger Sedjo and Marion Clawson, writing for Resources for the Future, dug into the available evidence and said, ""Information about the tropical moist forests is relatively scant. What information we do have comes from anecdotal evidence provided by isolated investigations at single times and places than from systematic studies conducted over large areas and lengths of time A hard look at the available data supports the view that some regions are experiencing rapid deforestation. However, the view that this is a pervasive phenomenon on a global level is questionable."" (Rational Readings, Julian Simon, p. 745)",0_0
"We Conservatives pledge our allegiance to the third zone: Natural Law , i.e., we humans do know better, but if we cant be bothered with standards, moral decline ensues, and can do so at an alarming rate.Making grand proclamations about thesanctity of the individual tojustifysmoking dopeisnot only an evasion of truth, itruns the risk of actually destroying you, and theshriller your protestations, the harder your own conscience condemns you.",0_0
"Recently, the so-called ""greenhouse effect"" has itself come under increasing attack by a phalanx of scientific experts, including Dr. Gerhard Gerlich and Dr. Ralf D. Tscheuschner, professor Nasif Nahle, applied mathematician Claes Johnson, former radio-chemist Alan Siddons, analytical chemist Hans Schreuder, combustion research scientist Martin Hertzberg, and engineer Heinz Thieme.",0_0
"As is routine, DfID is undertaking a full institutional assessment of Teri as part of our due diligence process.",0_0
"He worked hard to stop bamstercare cooperation in the Nebraska Hospital and political community, to warn of the misanthropic nature of socialized medicine, to expose the Corps of Engineers for their destructive, man-made flood of the Missouri River Valley in the spring of 2011.",0_0
"15 There is still no book-length study of the SCO. For short introductions, see Ariel Cohen, ""The Dragon Looks West: China and the SCO,"" Heritage Foundation (September 7, 2006), and Eugene Rumer, ""China, Russia, and the Balance of Power in Central Asia,"" Strategic Forum, National Defense University (November 2006).",0_0
"He was not referring to the 40 MPG Fiat 500, but the fire-breathing, 640-hp, 8.4-liter SRT Viper.",0_0
The study then proceeds to assign the total carbon emissions of a female alive today under different fertility constraints,0_0
Policy Experts Available for Analysis of Majority Proposals,0_0
"""On the campaign trail, Republicans have adopted the Environmental Protection Agency as a favorite symbol of the White House's regulatory overreach. And behind the scenes in Washington, GOP staffers and K Street lobbyists who say they've been dissed by the EPA administrator are looking forward to getting some revenge.""",0_0
"Right now, someone nearby is buying organic bean sprouts. It may be the last thing he ever does. Last weeks E. coli outbreak in Germany potentially traced to an organic farm was more deadly than the largest nuclear disaster of the last quarter-century.",0_0
"I've been watching my site meter this evening with puzzlement. There are an unusually high number of hits coming in on the ""We Wait"" post below. High for this site, at least - over 100 an hour. I checked to see if it had been Instalanched, I've checked Technorati. No clues. I had linked it to a Wizbang page, where it shares space with many, many other trackbacks, and it was trackbacked by only two sites. One of them Backcountry Conservative . Jeff Quinton mentions the traffic the link is generating - out of curiousity I clicked his site meter. He's had 29,475 visitors in the past hour . Wow. update - Check the trackbacks. A lot of people are having tsunamis. Glenn Reynolds had 200,000 page views yesterday. another update - the dead tree folks are hearing from them, too. And Jeff Jarvis weighs in. Wizbang has been hosting the video, and providing links to other sites that are doing the same. (The original Arab site was pulled down) - he's reporting "" 237,000 visitors today, and the day is only half over"". If anyone has hosting space that can help share the load, he's asking for help. Some of these bloggers are going to get hit with very high hosting fees this month.",0_0
"""It's a broad challenge to us as a country,"" said Nathanael Greene, renewable energy policy director at the National Resources Defense Council. ""How do we rapidly deploy the renewable energy technologies and transmission infrastructures to stave off catastrophic climate change and local and regional air pollution that comes with burning fossil fuels? Even the best sited projects have impacts on the landscape.""",0_0
"In Living with the UN, Anderson argues that tension between the US and the UN is primarily due to their conflicting roles in global politics. He contends that the world does not share a vision of what global governance looks like or what role the UN and the US should play on a global scale. He also points out that, since the first days of the Obama administration, the president has attempted to define the US-UN relationship by using generic catchphrases such as ""engagement"" and ""multilateralism."" Yet, Anderson argues, after four years in office, both Americans and non-Americans are still unclear on how these terms translate into policy.",0_0
Klimatprofessorn Hans von Storch varnar f r klimatvetenskapens kris,0_0
"Bumped .....Update: this just came across the Canadian Press wire. (No link yet). ""Dhalla issued her own brief statement in response: ""I appreciate Ms. Villanueva's clarification; however she is not speaking on behalf of all the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club. Many members of the Filipino Seniors Club and community have expressed their support in letters, phone calls and emails.'' Where SDA leads, the mainstream is sure to follow! (Original post follows below.) May 7: Filipino Seniors in Support of Dhalla Maybe not. To whom it concern: My name is Aurora G. Villanueva, a member of the Brampton Filipino Seniors Club. I wanted to clarify my position in relation to the statement made by Ms Dhalla during the inquiry. The letter she presented in the inquiry that was signed by me, but not written by me.. It was prepared by the office of Ms Dhalla.",0_0
"The only project approved is the Spring Valley wind farm in Nevada where the nearest eagle nest was over four miles away. Gina Jones, BLM's project leader, said the company agreed to extensive mitigation, such as putting ""anti-perch"" devices on transmission poles within two miles of the wind farm.",0_0
"Source: EPA, Emission Trends, http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/aqtrends.html#comparison",0_0
The enviros say they want to save the planet. But what about the people that live on the planet now?,0_0
"Now that we know the price of our sinful energy consumption, all we have to do is write a check (or donate online!) to the Carbon Capital Fund, and they'll immediately put that money into planting lots of more trees on Forest Service land to act as a carbon sink. Well, that and, um, other stuff:",0_0
"As Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Ackroyd) noted in Ghostbusters, ""You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results!""",0_0
"plot(abs(z)~b,data=Data],type=n,col=4,xlab=,ylab=,xlim=xlim0,ylim=c(0,3.5),yaxs=i)",0_0
NOTE: This article first appeared in Investor's Business Daily.,0_0
"The second argument of the EPA under President Bush was that the administrator had the discretion to decline to exercise the required ""judgment,"" and it should do so because the whole area of climate change is so complexscientifically, economically, internationally, legally, and in every other waythat listing carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act is just not a good idea.",0_0
"I asked Markey's press spokesman, Eben Burnham-Snyder, to name even one position on LNG exports that Markey modified after the series of studies by the EIA, Ebinger, Levi and now the DOE, but he refused. ""Go read Mr. Markey's letter to DOE,"" was the best he could muster.",0_0
"Calling for a moratorium on U.N. climate change conferences that emphasize financial transfers and reinforce the flawed, ineffective Kyoto methodology of differentiated responsibilities.",0_0
"Seeing these UNocrats perched at the table, whispering to each other, back-slapping, shaking hands, they seemed like a periodic reunion of old cynical Mafia chieftains or mercenaries who run into each other in different hot spots, as they move from one slaughter to another, ""How are you? Haven't seen you since Bosnia . . .."" As the hours wore on, however, and I nervously doodled in my note pad, shifted in my chair, looked at my watch, and thought about all the real work I had to do that evening, I decided that, no, labeling them mafiosos or mercenaries was much too kind. They seemed more to be the progeny resulting from a mating between a mad oracle and a giant carrion-eater. They were akin to some sort of ancient mythical Greco-Roman-Aztec-Wes Craven-Egyptian-bird-god that demands constant sacrifice and feeding, and speaks in riddles which only it can solve. Yes, I decided, the UNocrats are great hideous vultures, roused from their caves in the European Alps and in the cement canyons and peaks of Manhattan by the stench of death in the Turd World. They leisurely take flight toward the smell of death; circle, and then swoop down, screeching UNintelligble nonsense. They arrive and immediately force others, e.g., the American tax payer, to build them new exclusive nests in the midst of poverty, and make themselves fat on the flesh of the dead. My friends, allow The Diplomad to present to you The High Priest Vulture Elite (HPVE). These genuinely repulsive, arrogant creatures survive only because the world's rich countries, the non-Turd World, allow them, too. We in the First World find it politically impossible to reveal their pronouncements as the cant they are. For many in Europe and among the New York Times crowd, helping maintain these mad vultures substitutes for genuine action, ""The UN is on the job!"" In addition, for many senior bureaucrats and minor politicians, there is always the hope that if they play the game right, they, too, can join the High Priest Vulture Elite: We see the ranks of the HPVE full of Scandinavians and leftist Americans, and the occasional pompous Euro-Brazilian, all of whom parlayed mediocre domestic careers of lip-biting humanitarian symbolism into well-paying tax-free sinecures in the HPVE.",0_0
Bernanke Asset Purchase Risk Unleashing 1970s Inflation Genie:,0_0
Leonardo DiCaprio's eco-doomfest The 11th Hour has bombed at the box office:,0_0
"Atlantic hurricane lull continues Still a lot of unknowns concerning decadal climate variability Groups fight carbon tax in Washington State, no money for them Australian group launches ""Clexit' push Inland waters carbon dioxide emissions underestimated",0_0
"""OpenDNS released statistics about which websites were commonly blocked and which websites users were frequently given access to in 2010. The report additionally details the companies online scammers targeted in 2010, as well as where the majority of phishing websites were hosted.""",0_0
"The big question is over health care. In recent times it has tended to invent effective but expensive new procedures-medical jet packs, though more useful-such as surgery, scanning and radiotherapy. But some think it might be on the brink of finding cheaper therapies through regenerative medicine and genome sequencing. The latter's cost is down by 99% in about a decade, far faster than Moore's Law.",0_0
The Yale Climate Media forum has a very good post titled Strange bedfellows and fear of broad impacts of Mann/UVa court ruling. Excerpts:,0_0
"The president's speech seems to imply that ""energy efficiency' somehow is free.",0_0
"Just like these 7 letters are the most frequent letters in English texts, entangled states and linear operators are virtually omnipresent in quantum mechanics and anything and everything linked to it. If you haven't learned E,T,A,I,N,O,S, then you are illiterate. If you feel uncertain about the existence of entanglement or linearity of all operators, you are illiterate in quantum mechanics. If you are waiting for a kettle or for Sherlock Holmes to reduce E,T,A,I,N,O,S or entanglement or linearity of operators to something that you already know, e.g. how to make poops, then you are a baby who has a long way to go before you learn the basic things. This conclusion is addressed to Mr Deutsch and Ms Marletto, too. She is attractive and he is... sorry, I can't think of a positive adjective now..., but they are totally deluded about modern physics.",0_0
"In all of its health-care policy advocacy, 1199 has held to the position that what's good for union members is good for the public. As one issue of its monthly newsletter put it, ""Saving our hospitals isn't just about jobs, but also about healthcare for the people."" But while making health-care jobs some of the most stable and secure in New York, 1199's advocacy efforts helped create and perpetuate an overly expensive and inefficient health-care system.",0_0
Australian and U.S. Feds Working Together to Investigate Online Gambling:,0_0
"Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) said he would oppose ""any cuts"" in agriculture subsidies because ""farmers and farm families depend on this federal assistance.""",0_0
"On September 3rd, The Wall Street Journal published a commentary by Edward P. Lazear titled ""The Climate Change Agenda Needs to Adapt to Reality: Limiting carbon emissions won't work. Better to begin adjusting to a warming world.""",0_0
"If youve ever tried to buy insurance on your own, he said, I promise you this is a lot easier.",0_0
Producing enough ethanol from switch grass to displace 1 million barrels of oil per day would require that 25 million acres of land be planted in switch grass. That is an area about the size of Kentucky.,0_0
"Avebury, about 20 miles (32 km) N. of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire;",0_0
"The survey, conducted among researchers listed in the American Geological Institutes Directory of Geoscience Departments*, found that climatologists who are active in research showed the strongest consensus on the causes of global warming, with 97 percent agreeing humans play a role .",0_0
"In all, the report reminds us that there are many solid data indicators, some collected since the nineteenth century in industrialized nations, that are illuminating, publicly available, and standardized across countries. And these data can help us broaden measures of well-being far beyond GDPsomething the Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index actually does (more on that in a moment).",0_0
"OK, here is my question : Do the folks in this article understand incentives and simply ignore them, or are they truly ignorant ?",0_0
Guardian: UK carbon capture project close to collapse,0_0
Weve brought this seal herd back from 1.8 million in the 1970s to 5.5 million in 2004,0_0
"This brings me to the second main pointthe fixation with the Kyoto Protocol, or what I call, to borrow Churchill's phrase about the disarmament chatter of the 1930s, the prolonged and solemn farce of the Kyoto process. The original Kyoto Protocol of 1998 is set to expire in another few years, and the global climate campaign is desperately wedded to the goal of crafting Kyoto II at climactic negotiations in Copenhagen at the end of this yeartalks which it is widely expected President Obama will attend. The first Kyoto Protocol of 1998, which even a President Al Gore would not have attempted to implement in the United States had he become president in 2000, has generated the greatest mass hypocrisy since the Kellogg-Briand Pact promised to end warfare back in 1928. I have little doubt that in 10 or 20 years we are going to look back on Kyoto process as the climate policy equivalent of wage and price controls to fight inflation in the 1970s. The Kyoto approach has utterly failed to achieve its first stage goals; European claims to have complied with Kyoto depend on some bookkeeping gimmicks that would have embarrassed Enron.",0_0
"Electronics/computer shoppers, for example, are steered toward IBM and Sony products, rather than Apple's, since the latter fared abysmally in ClimateCounts' survey of the so-called ""carbon footprints"" of 56 consumer products companies.",0_0
"According to the EPA's own analysis, the Utility MACT serves to protect America's population of pregnant, subsistence fisherwomen, who eat 300 pounds of self-caught fish reeled in exclusively from the most polluted bodies of water. The EPA notably failed to identify a single member of this supposed population. Rather, their existence is assumed. EPA states that, ""we think that they are reasonable and that fishing populations with these attributes are likely to exist and be active to some extent.""",0_0
"This news is given here in preview for Italy: Mariano Rajoy, Popular candidate (right) in the elections in Spain on March 9, said during the televised debates with Prime Minister Zapatero of having unamica imagined a girl even called",0_0
"In February 2008, researcher Timothy Searchinger and colleagues calculated that",0_0
High-speed rail forum looks at future:,0_0
"In the end, all it takes is one ignorant President to set progress back for decades. In this case it was President Jimmy Carter for not allowing reprocessing of nuclear waste, a standard practice in France where only one-fifth of spent fuel requires storage. In the 1980s there were three U.S. corporations leading the way on the introduction and use of nuclear energy to produce electrical power; General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, and Babcock & Wilcox. Today only Babcock-Wilcox continues as a fully owned American company.",0_0
"Every side in the political debate has a natural tendency to appeal to freedom of speech when they feel threatened?but to ignore (or initiate) threats to the free speech of the other side. My favorite example is from the early 1990s, when the Yeltsin government dispossessed Russia's Communist Party of the vast holdings it had amassed in the decades when it controlled the state. The Communist Party screamed in protest, denouncing the supposed attack on its ""property rights and freedom of speech."" Which was pretty rich, considering that the Communists had just spent 70 years ruthlessly stamping out everyone else's property rights and freedom of speech.",0_0
"Bob and I corresponded frequently. We even had a long Skype conversation the weekend before he died. We were discussing a project to get people to actually see with their own eyes the Trubi Marls successions at Capo Rosello on the south coast of Sicily, where one sees ancient climate change clearly in the rocks. Well, that plan won't happen now, but perhaps one day I will make my way there in Bob's memory.",0_0
"Die Zeit holds Morano responsiblefor single-handedly spreading skepticism worldwide. Morano appears in Americas living rooms; a stocky figure in the mid forties, donning a suit and tie. He has a friendly smile that fools you .",0_0
"Eco-purists want no cutting, no thinning no using fire retardants in ""sensitive"" areas because the chemicals might get into streams that will be boiled away by conflagrations. They prevent homeowners from clearing brush around their homes, because it might provide cover or habitat for endangered species and other critters that will get incinerated or lose their forage, prey, and habitats in the next blaze. They rarely alter their policies during drought years.",0_0
"has 3 x 39-meter blades, with tips moving at speeds up to 256kms/hr Footprint of Wind vs. Nuclear is 1,440:1 Bruce Power proposal for AB and eluded to for SK is, for example;",0_0
Mr Fisher said the Rossby waves spinning wind currents that give the jet stream its wavy form by pushing it north and south are responsible for the stalled jet stream.,0_0
"They want to ""unify classical physics and quantum mechanics"" and the concepts of information in them. But this is complete nonsense. The frameworks can't be unified because they contradict one another. More clearly, quantum mechanics is right in Nature around us while classical physics is wrong. Classical physics is a limit of quantum mechanics classical physics is approximately valid in some extreme enough situations accurately described by quantum mechanics but not the other way around. One should never try to unify a thing that is right with a thing that is wrong. It's like pouring gasoline on the fire and I won't even tell you which of these two elements is right and which of them is wrong.",0_0
"So what does available evidence show? And where do environmentalists begin to get their numbers? Well U.S. News and World Report (12/13/93) explains that while the figure of 40 million acres per year ""has taken on a life of its own,"" it is being ""cited and recited without reference to its origins. Yet almost half the estimated total comes from a very rough estimate made by a Brazilian scientist who used sensors on a U.S. weather satellite to count the number of fires burning in the Amazon at one time in 1988 . He estimated the size of each, The resulting number was into the widely cited report by the World Resources Institute that helped fuel the alarm over vanishing tropical forests; was cited by Gore and other administration officials last spring in announcing support for the Biodiversity Treaty.",0_0
"Global Warming Profiteer Prophet Al Gore had a busy week. The Goreacle brushed off an inconvenient snub when his usual playmates asked him not to come to their party , and used the opportunity to blog to the masses.",0_0
Whats scarier: junk science or central planning?,0_0
"Given my emails, I don't think I explained my first point in this post on Social Security very well:",0_0
"""We think we need public policy that's based in facts, rather than facts that are based on a public agenda,"" Colorado State University professor Scott Denning said.",0_0
"Who are these security analysts? Are they the same analysts Ed Miliband consulted when he determined that UK intervention was a feasible plan, or perhaps the ones that devised the plan? Were they the same analysts that compiled and sexed-up the Dodgy Dossier that made the case for invading Iraq? Are these the same security analysts that didnt anticipate the emergence of ISIS/ISIL? Are they the same analysts that presided over a decade and half of interventions across the world that have left thousands of young soldiers dead or seriously wounded, and killed hundreds of thousands of people that had nothing at all to do with terrorism, or fundamental interpretations of religion, and cost hundreds of $billions, if not $trillions?",0_0
"As Congress moves forward with these proposals, the policy experts of the Competitive Enterprise Institute will be watching and tracking their progress. For analysis on the costs and implications of this new legislation, contact CEI in the days and weeks ahead.",0_0
"Kai Martin, bloggers p Expressen freslogatt next rs festival could vararkfri and year after alcohol.",0_0
"Sadly, his book on climate data, Towards a New Climate Description: Analysis of Forcing and Response Time Series from Tartu University Press, finally came out just before he passed.",0_0
"""The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) is a government agency that loans money or guarantees private loans to foreign buyers of U.S. goods. Ex-Im is known as ""Boeing's Bank,' and for good reason. Between 1998 and 2004, it issued loans and long-term guarantees for US$53-billion of U.S. exports. Just under US$28-billion of those deals were Boeing sales. Ex-Im exists not just primarily, but mostly, to subsidize Boeing's overseas aircraft sales.""",0_0
"""It's difficult to say that there's a benchmark for China which they should not exceed, because there are all kinds of issues, equity principles, on what you allocate for China,"" den Elzen said.",0_0
"""Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been a boon for developers and organizations that need large-scale code-crunching power but can't or won't shell out for the server racks. Unfortunately, those cheap, on-tap computing capabilities are an irresistible temptation to bad guys who can, for example, use EC2 to smash passwords in mere minutes for a handful of change.""",0_0
Some significant developments in various lawsuits involving Michael Mann,0_0
Federal government officials think your clothes washer is contributing to global warmingand they are going to do something about it.,0_0
"Heath: See Molly, thats why I dont like to get involved with things like Earth Day. Everyone is so judgmental, trying to tell all the other trees how to live. Just let me live my life as nature intended.",0_0
"1. From a New York Times crossword puzzle buff here : Ooo...! 'n hey agin! Look at 30D (Like an ivory-billed woodpecker), RARE -- Extinct is not rare and the Lord God bird (Compephilus principalis) has not been proven to be rare (as in hens teeth, well maybe!) but more likely extinct (as in T-Rex); however, as the article states Who knows? I personally can't tell a parakeet from a vulture . 2. More discussion of plumage abnormalities is on a Birdforum thread here . A Tim Allwood post on the ""wariness"" hypothesis is here . 3. A Flickr photo group called ""Campephilus Woodpeckers"" is here .",0_0
The team also compared charcoal deposits in boggy meadows within the groves to the tree-ring fire history. The chronology of charcoal deposits closely matches the tree-ring chronology of fire scars.,0_0
"They make a lot of hay out of discrepancies that could just be folks making errors. Like saying someone was in the front of a police car that might have been the back, or the usual confusion at the start of an event where the facts are never correct (in my personal experience with the news).",0_0
revenues coming in to match the huge spending ahead? Can he find majorities that,0_0
Seems that the Internet Explorer Browser has a hole in it allowing folks to take over your computer. Why am I not surprised?,0_0
"SM: The objective is to try to elect more free-market tax-cutting candidates to congress. We believe that thanks to groups like the Cato Institute, CEI, and the Heritage Foundation, the intellectual war is largely being won by our side. We have all the strong intellectual arguments on our side. The question is, and I think Fred Smith is the one who is famous for saying it, if we're so smart, why aren't we winning? The answer is because the left plays the game of politics a lot better than we do. We're trying to use some of the very tactics the left has used very effectively to elect people like Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer to Congress, but to use those tactics and fundraising mechanisms to elect good free-market people like Phil Gramm and Ron Paul. So, what we do is make recommendations on outstanding candidates to our members, and they decide if they wish to support them. And if they do, they send those checks to us. We use what is called the Emily's List model of bundling contributions for candidates who want to cut taxes and slash government.",0_0
UK Changes Rules about Gambling Online from Abroad:,0_0
But major mining and exploration including coal seam gas proposals will not be banned in areas set aside as prime agricultural land.,0_0
"includes journals, op-ed pages, the blogosphere, Twitter any arena where contrasting viewpoints contend with each other. For foreign policy's prosaic side, the scene of the action is the governmental apparatus that the",0_0
"""Where are you from,"" Gaia asked, ""Indonesia? How did you arrive at the conference today?"" ""We flew in a plane,"" the Indonesian delegate replied. ""That plane emitted carbon,"" Gaia explained, ""you didn't breathe on board did you? More carbon!""",0_0
"The clip might be enough to derail Gingrich's political comeback, says Marc Morano, a former aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who believes climate change is a political tool to advance Democratic interests.",0_0
TRENDING: Aide fired over Florida debate foul:,0_0
"Matthew Bunkers, a science and operations officer at the National Weather Service in Rapid City, said these types of devastating blizzards happen about once per decade, though the estimate is only based on 122 years of data.",0_0
* Using floating surface buoys only = 0.3 F/decade,0_0
Some Economics of Climate Change: A Response to The Stern Review,0_0
"As Eisenhower observed in a less well remembered threat in that speech: ""The prospect of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of scientific-technological elite.""",0_0
"Two parts of the controversy over calculating PTE are the choice of a base year and the expected future utilization of capacity. Many plants run at less than full capacity and maintain their emissions below caps put in place by other programs (e.g., caps on SOx under the Title IV acid rain program and caps on other pollutants under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards Program) in order to have the flexibility to increase or alter production on short notice without having to go through the permitting process. If emissions in a year of historically low utilization are used as the base for determining whether future emissions are significant, then more modifications become subject to NSR.",0_0
"Both install very easily on Windows Both work very well. I like both, but for different reasons. Opera has a nice buffer feature thats a great help on slow links (turbo Opera). Firefox just feels right Though for some of them you may need to find and turn on some particular menu bars.",0_0
"Regulatory agencies face far weaker restraints. Indeed, once the organic legislation empowering the regulatory agency is enacted, it faces few further checks. Before promulgating any specific regulation, it will, of course, have to jump through various procedural hoops, but there will be no effective check on the costs it can impose on the U.S. economy. OIRA now requires many agencies to demonstrate that the costs and benefits of each regulation have been calculated. Most regulatory agencies soon find out, however, how to employ creative accounting to ensure high B/C ratios. And when they find even this weak criteria difficult, they note that they deal with areas where markets are either weak or non-existent (in many cases because the regulatory agencies have preempted the emergence of private risk management arrangements) and advance various non-use values to justify their programs. Regulators have to be very stupid to actually be disciplined.",0_0
"EPA Region V, for example, recently challenged an Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) decision concerning turbine blade replacement at a utility. The Indiana agency concluded the change fell under the routine maintenance and replacement exclusion, but EPA launched its own inquiry and determined the change was a ""major modification"" subject to NSR. EPA then asked the IDEM to withdraw its ruling, even though it had been issued nearly two years (20 months) earlier.33",0_0
The ad tries to work both sides of the street. It attempts to appeal to those who believe SUVs are destroying the planet -- and those who resent eco-elitists and busybodies telling them how to live.,0_0
"BACTstandards apply to individual sources on a case-by-case basis. They generally are more stringent and by law may not be less stringent than Clean Air Act new source performance standards (NSPS), which the EPA establishes for categories of industrial sources. In other words, NSPS are the floor or minimum emission control standards for BACT determinations. Is that correct?",0_0
"EPAsleaked presentation reveals that the agencywill propose an endangerment finding on April 30.There will be a 60-day comment period. Unlike all previous endangerment findings,EPA will not concurrently propose new regulations, but defer the latter to a future rulemaking or rulemakings.",0_0
"Model$fracdiff=profile.lik(x,method.lik=fracdiff.lik)",0_0
"Real-World CO2-Induced Growth Enhancements of Oak and Pine Trees in Missouri, USA",0_0
"Interestingly, McClure wrote in his July 2006 Seattle P-I blog about skeptic Pat Michaels, quoting CNN's Peter Dykstra:",0_0
"""When organisms challenged by climate change respond by adapting, they evolve,"" Stewart Brand, the president of the Long Now Foundation and co-founder of the Revive and Restore project, wrote in an essay published at Aeon.",0_0
Tenafly Little League Calls for Mandatory Fingerprinting Of All Volunteers:,0_0
"""The scale of impacts that we are facing, collectively across the desert, is phenomenal,"" said Dennis Schramm, former superintendent at neighboring Mojave National Preserve. ""The reality of the Ivanpah project is that what it will look like on the ground is worse than any of the analyses predicted.""",0_0
"I love the convenience of having my photos online and share-able,and especially having them backed up automatically as I take them,but the problem is that all the major sites seem to have a dream of being the last internet site standing, and want to keep all your photos in their little universe. Shutterfly, Facebook, Google, Flickr -- they tend to only allow sharing within their little universe (though I am hoping for good things from Google peeling photos out of Google Plus).",0_0
"We have no issue with private, voluntary conservation efforts. Individuals, whether alone or in a group, are welcome to turn off their lights, whether they think they are reducing emissions or simply want to save money. However, no one should have the right to use government coercion to force others to sit in the dark. Cleaner, advanced technologies are built upon ""dirtier"" technologies. All of the innovations we enjoy todayfrom sliced bread to buildings to computersstand on the shoulders of technologies that came before. The more government interferes with individuals' ability to utilize natural resources and experiment with new technologies, the more expensive and more difficult it is to advance.",0_0
"Craig D. Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University. Dr. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges.",0_0
"H. Sterling Burnett, Climate Change Weekly",0_0
"Climate researcher Tim Osborn is next door, struggling with a familiar problem. My inbox is full and I need to delete some e-mails. Then, with a thin smile: But Im not allowed to now, am I?",0_0
Holding a difficult path between the peril of the sea-fog,0_0
"As highlighted in High Level Climate Finance, 17 February 2011 http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/originals/high level climate finance.html with additional relevant commentary in",0_0
Smart meters 101: Five things you need to know,0_0
"Now, Ive caught a lot of salmon in my day, but its all been commercial trolling and commercial net fishing. Once I was in the airport leaving Alaska and I got to talking with a guy carrying some rods. I asked how the fishing had been. He said it was great, hed caught 18 silver salmon. How did you do?, he asked. Almost shamefacedly, I admitted that during the season Id caught about 120 tonnes of silver salmon. So it was a first for me to try my hand at casting a fly for salmon in a river. Matt and a local guide did their best to school me in the arcane art, and Im proud to say that at no time during my rather alarming experiments did I actually hook either a tree, the guide, or my ear.",0_0
"And if me using a steel shovel to dig in my own garden is not sustainable ... then what is sustainable? I mean, where are the peak iron zealots when we need them?",0_0
"Farmers and environmentalists are upset at the OFarrell governments draft regional land use plan, which classified one million hectares of the New England North West and 400,000 hectares of the Upper Hunter as high-value agricultural land.",0_0
"In South Sudan, most people still practice primitive subsistence farming. A UN Development Program report says 90% of the land in South Sudan is suitable for agriculture, but less than 5% of it is cultivated. This is because oil was the primary source of income for the country, the economy has collapsed, and few farmers have modern equipment, fertilizers, or seeds to make any profits.",0_0
"Id also like to note another feature of these test. Let us supposed, the true underlying tendency turns out to be 1 C/century. How will these hypothesis test look over time?",0_0
Press Release 4/22/2011 2:25 PM EDT Source: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,0_0
"Khosla said that ?with Tony's advice and influence we will create opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators to devise practical solutions that can solve today's most pressing problems.""",0_0
About 90 percent of the scientists agreed with the first question and 82 percent the second.,0_0
"Smoke can seen seen six miles (9.7km) away in Barnsley and smelled from Sheffield, 17 miles (27km) away.",0_0
"Katy McGinty, who chairs the Council on Environmental Quality, affirmed the Administration's stance on Kyoto, ""We need legally binding emissions standards,"" asserting that ""voluntary is not sufficient.""",0_0
"Despite the libelous attacks, Robinson garnered a very respectable 44% of the vote and promptly announced that he would run for DeFazio's seat again in 2012. If the soft-spoken father of six thought DeFazio's campaign had been in the sewers, what happened next beggared belief. Now the targets became Robinson's three youngest children.",0_0
parents say the change would coddle failing students....,0_0
"Bobby Jindal: The Louisiana governor and McCain veepstakes contender denies any interest in higher office, yet he set media tongues wagging by traveling to Iowa just three weeks after the presidential election.",0_0
"""Many state legislators want to use the money to promote public health, not higher education.""",0_0
"OK, sometimes Im in an article, and there is a link, and the site has a list of article, and I wander",0_0
"Case Study 1. MoveOn.org: ""The Air We Breathe""",0_0
"And this number also seems to be good for the National Wildlife Federation, which in a pamphlet co-produced with the World Wildlife Fund called ""Tropical Forests: A Resource for the Future"" said ""Tropical deforestation is occurring at the rate of more than 50 acres per minute. An area the size of New York state is destroyed each year. This rate is high enough to ensure that many countries will be entirely stripped of primary forest within the next decade.""",0_0
"But the Bell Rocket Belt now gathers dust in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. Its exceedingly short flight time, 20 seconds, was both impractical and unsafe. Unlike airplanes, jet packs cannot land gracefully when the power fails. Soon even the comic-book heroes of the future had begun to do without jet packs.Several jet packs were indeed under development by the late 1950s. One of them, called the Jump Belt, used compressed nitrogen. Another, the Aerojet, used compressed hydrogen peroxide. A few years later, Bell Aerospace's Rocket Belt, also using hydrogen peroxide, seemed the most promising and briefly took James Bond off the ground in ""Thunderball.""",0_0
"?Cancun has done its job,? claimed UN climate boss Christiana Figueres in a statement at the summit?s conclusion. ?The beacon of hope has been reignited and faith in the multilateral climate change process to deliver results has been restored.? She said the Cancun Agreements represented a ?new beginning,? not the end. ?It is not what is ultimately required, but it is the essential foundation on which to build greater, collective ambition,? she said.",0_0
"Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:",0_0
"If you read the news stories surrounding a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Boston University?s Robert Kaufmann and three colleagues, you?d say yes, indeed. It?s China?s fault. By dramatically increasing their combustion of coal, they have increased the concentration of fine particles in the atmosphere called sulphate aerosols, which reflect away solar radiation, countering the warming that should be occurring from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide.",0_0
"Then there is the sad case of Peter Gleick, a once-respected environmental scientist who heads the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in California. Gleick disgraced himself and his cause when he confessed to stealing confidential documents from the Heartland Institute back in February in an effort to discredit the conservative think tank. What had Heartland done to deserve such treatment? It had given a platform to ideas considered anathema to Gleick and the global warming community.",0_0
"Unfair might be misrepresenting my earlier post (criticizing McIntyres never-ending accusations of misconduct and his ultimately futile attempts to use FOIA/EIR to get hold of unpublished work) as a criticism of any specific analysis, despite the opening line being Steve McIntyre is free to do any analysis he wants on any data he can find and not mentioning his results at all.",0_0
"Thistwo-part seriesconsiders the probability of success of carbon pricing and an alternative approach. Part 1, Why carbon pricing will not succeed , is an edited extract from my submission to the Australian Senate inquiry into repeal of the carbon tax legislation ( Submission No 2; Mr Peter Lang ). Part 1 explains why carbon pricing cannot succeed unless it is global, and global carbon pricing is unlikely to be achieved, let alone sustained for the time until the job is done (centuries).",0_0
Gaia has offered the rest of us a chance to download her carbon indulgences.,0_0
This ignores the fact that Democrats didn't move immigration bills when they had control of the House and a supermajority in the Senate. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi thought global warming and health care were more important.,0_0
"Coffman, Michael, S. ""The Philosophy, Politics and Science of Biological Diversity,"" Bangor, Maine: Environmental Perspectives Inc., 1994.",0_0
"Two things are noteworthy. First, EPA plans to find that air pollution related to GHG emissions endanger both health and welfare. This is a departure from the ANPR,in which EPA tried to make a case forfinding endangerment only in relation to public welfare.",0_0
"TheAlliance for Wise Energy Decisions(AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy &environmental policies. Our basic position is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science. Its all spelled out at WiseEnergy.org , which is a wealth of energy and environmental resources.",0_0
"Journalism Fellow Lene Johansen on how attitudes about GM foods are changing: ""Increased prosperity in India and China is good, but now we have to follow up with an increase in food production. Molecular plant breeding techniques will create that increase. Europe cannot opt out of the international river of grains to go it alone, it's time to get with the program. Greg Conko and Ron Bailey have prophesized that it's just a matter of time before China and India figure out that molecular plant breeding will save the day and that these two countries will ignore Europe's insistence that this technique should not be used. This is happening now. """,0_0
"As the moist air approached the eastern slopes Washington Cascades it was forced to rise and instability was released, producing lots of thunderstorms, some with intense rain and much lightning. A particularly, intense thunderstorm cell passed across the North Cascades between 8 and 10 PM Saturday, here is a radar image for 8:49 PM Saturday. Red indicates very heavy rain.",0_0
"The teenager, the mother, the husband, the actress, the Congressman, the Olympian, the football star-all the many people who said simply, Im gay, changed the world. Their world, and our world. By making their issue personal, and taking one small brave step, they moved hearts and minds that may never have opened and changed in any other way.",0_0
"Its tax returns indicate expenditures of more than $17.5 million targeted at tar sands oil development, including more than $15.4 million to the left-wing Tides Foundation and the affiliated Tides Canada Foundation. At the time,Tides was led by progressive millionaire Drummond Pike, and by ACORN co-founder and AFL-CIO organizer Wade Rathke.",0_0
"Increased fat levels in the liver and muscle tissue have also shown to contribute to insulin resistance, a key factor in the development of type 2 diabetes.",0_0
"To see why the Higgs-bottom associated production is natural with large tan(beta), check the 2000 report of the Tevatron Higgs working group (I know two co-authors in person and know that they're at the top) where the Higgs-bottom associated production is mentioned in the last sentence of the abstract - and throughout the paper, especially on pages 29-31 (32-34 of 187 in the PDF file). A large tan(beta) is useful to enhance the cross sections - that go as tan^2(beta) - which is why the Fermilab physicists chose this process as one of their favorite places to look (because there's a bigger chance to see something).",0_0
"Read More: Talks between climate Professors John Christy and Kerry Emanuel, Part 2. Pehr Bjrnbom, Climate Enlightenment 2014-06-06.",0_0
Wormhole and Entanglement (Non-)Detection in the ER=EPR Correspondence,0_0
I would encourage all of you to stuff that junk mail directly into the recycle basket.,0_0
"Writing in Wattsupwiththat, Willis Eschenbach provides us with a map of the North Carolina sites from 1733 juxtaposed with a satellite photo from 1990. Notice the radical difference between the two.",0_0
Earth 500 million people are expected to watch The Day After Tomorrow. We,0_0
"The backlash against Obamacare will soon lead to the adoption of consumer-driven health care reforms such as tax credits, enhanced health savings accounts, interstate insurance markets, and malpractice insurance reforms. It's entirely likely these reforms would not have been proposed or embraced were it not for Obamacare and its disastrous consequences.",0_0
"Before I comment on Bger and Cubasch, Im going to quote from Eduardo Zoritas posted review in which he cites discussions of ""spurious regression"" from Phillips 1998 and Granger and Newbold 1974 (previously discussed on this blog). ""Spurious"" in this context is not merely a term of disapproval e.g. Manns generic use of the term ""spurious criticism"", but a technical term to refer to high statistical values for unrelated series. Zorita provides a length quote from Phillips as follows:",0_0
"But if the Russian economy (and other economies) were at stake - and the only threat that would be averted by the ""fight against climate change"" were a few degrees of warming by 2108 which Russia badly needs, anyway - be sure that they won't join Steven Chu's stupid game. They will happily allow their economy to strengthen as the economies plagued by Steven Chu and his peers would weaken.",0_0
"""A New York Times reporter need not testify in court about who gave him details on a top-secret CIA program targeting Iran, a federal judge has ruled.""",0_0
"Summarizing the reverse engineering: one can arrive at observed pressures under Non-Logo pregame initialization if one assumes that two balls were left alone, seven balls were deflated by 0.38 psi, one ball deflated by 0.76 psi and one ball inflated by 0.5 psi. These are not the only solutions to the inverse problem, but they give a yardstick.",0_0
"Drax Group Plc, the utility converting the biggest U.K. coal station to burning wood pellets, plunged to its lowest ever after the government said clean power will have to start paying a climate-change tax. The stock tumbled 28 percent in London to the lowest since it started trading in 2005. Shares of Infinis Energy Plc, a Northampton-based developer of clean power listed in London, also slumped 8 percent to the lowest since November 2013. --Louise Downing, Bloomberg, 8 July 2015",0_0
Early Bird Rates Now Available for Heartland's 32nd Anniversary Benefit Dinner,0_0
"As the index shows, it is tragic that most of the poorest countries in the world have some of the worst business environments. If the laws and norms of a country do not support entrepreneurial activity, growth will not occur. A broader measure of a business environment includes governance, which is the most important indicator of a prosperous society. Very few countries can be considered prosperous without having at least a reasonable score in the Prosperity Index on this variable.",0_0
"Nominations closed today for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is supposed to be awarded to a person who ""shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."" It seems to be that the 1970 recipient Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution -- credited with saving a billion people from starvation -- is a prime example of the type of person to whom the prize should be awarded.",0_0
"If you click the links to the originals you can not only click through to any given area or quake, but by clicking on the little blue diamonds you can rotate the globe to different points of view. Its kind of fun",0_0
"John Kerry voted against carbon restrictions before he voted for them. After all, he was among those who unanimously passed a 1997 Byrd Hagel resolution against the Kyoto treaty. Along with then-President Bill Clinton who recognized the peril of submitting it for Senate ratification, Kerry knew better than to publicly support a politically unsavory treaty which the bill asserted ""would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States.""",0_0
"As anyone knows who has watched television pharmaceutical ads, all medications have side effects, ranging from dry mouth to suicidal thoughts or actions to increased risk of cancer, heart attack, stroke, and death. Only quacks and snake oil salesmen advertise risk-free remedies. Yet climate physicians like the RICO 20 talk as if governments can wage regulatory warfare on humanity's most affordable and reliable energy sources, and no one could possibly get hurt. That's fraud. Like their professed devotion to freedom of speech.",0_0
The PDF file may be download from either of these links:,0_0
"The audacity of this leap has often been missed, but it merits real scrutiny. Does the United States conduct any other negotiation in this way? Did Congress, for example, as a prelude to the Uruguay or Doha Rounds, drop all U.S. tariffs and farm subsidies to zero? Did the U.S. win the withdrawal of Soviet conventional forces from Europe by first pulling its own troops out of Germany? Why, then, would we consider taking the functional equivalent of these steps in the area of GHG control? Or, to pose the same question in another way, how would ACESA's GHG reductions differ from the just-mentioned bargaining moves in trade or arms control?",0_0
"away from feeding livestock, and sure enough, here in the States, the",0_0
Newsmax reports on a judge granting CEI discovery in their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against a White House science policy office.,0_0
"""Via the Blaze, the logical conclusion to weeks of Democratic demagoguery aimed at the Supremes' decision in the Citizens United case, which of course made it safe for swarthy foreigners to buy the election this year by donating to the Chamber of Commerce or something. This is almost too stupid to dignify with a response, but content is content.""",0_0
"Interestingly and sadly enough, a primus stove explosion made him legally blind at the age of 14. That didn't prevent him from becoming a top mathematician.",0_0
"There appears to be no funding for geoengineering research in President Obama's 2012 budget, and calls to the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy were not returned.",0_0
"Some bits much harder to dismiss. The shooters mom being both a teacher at the school and not a teacher. The out of place girl on the Presidential lap. The odd way the crime scene is managed. One I noticed is a surprising lack of colored cars in the lot. A heck of a lot of white, gray, dark. Not so much yellow, red (other than fire / ambulance), green, purple, etc. Now maybe a lot of them are the undercover cops and such who rushed to the scene, but there still ought to be more color. Unless the people there are very different from Californians. We have far fewer standard sedans in dull municipal colors.",0_0
"Not much more I can say, except to offer my thanks to all of the WUWT readers who have been so supportive, offering advice and information and encouragement and stories and support. I wish that I could have taken up on everyones invitations for food and drink and lodging. My apologies that I did not have time to respond to everyones invitations, comments and ideas, but I definitely read them all, and followed many of them. Heres the team, enjoying the UK to the max on a sunny day in a secret, undisclosed location:",0_0
And the rules governing emissions trading aren't even agreed on they're still under separate negotiation.,0_0
"This suit led, last night, to the production of a document to CEI that reveals that then-Secretary Clinton signed an NDA that laid out criminal penalties for ""any unauthorized disclosure"" of classified information. This disclosure goes beyond the ""climate"" issue, of course, but is of far broader interest. The document is excerpted below and can be found in full here.",0_0
"Certainly, there were plenty of structural reasons economic, political, social why the Soviet Union should have collapsed as it did, yet they fail to explain fully how it happened when it happened. How, that is, between 1985 and 1989, in the absence of sharply worsening economic, political, demographic, and other structural conditions, did the state and its economic system suddenly begin to be seen as shameful, illegitimate, and intolerable by enough men and women to become doomed?",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 8 The Southern Oscillation Indices,0_0
"5. ""Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,"" wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled ""Eco-Catastrophe! ""By some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.""",0_0
"Stonyfield Farm's organic yogurt has long been marketed through dubious efforts to scare consumers away from conventional (i.e., not marketed as ""organic"") yogurt.",0_0
"It probably feels too good to give up. When Ted Turner says, ""If I had to predict the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50/50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years,"" but then cuts back on environmental grant making because his stock portfolio swoons, does anyone in the environmental community have the courage to point out that Turner is making a mockery of environmental concern?",0_0
"AWED Energy & Environmental Newsletter: March 24, 2014",0_0
"We've done it before. Ronald Reagan in 1964 said ""We represent the forgotten Americanthat simple soul who goes to work, bucks for a raise, takes out insurance, pays for his kids' schooling, contributes to his church and charity, and knows there just ""ain't no such thing as a free lunch.'"" He knew that to attract the working- and middle-class voter, ""that simple soul,"" conservatives need to express what they already believe, that the simple soul has value as a creature made in God's image.",0_0
"The indulgence is signed, Mother Earth, goddess du jour.",0_0
I was alerted to a new paper by Faisal Hossain that has adopted part of the bottom-up perspective with respect that we hae proposed in our article,0_0
"By Amy Gahran, Energy Biz, Jul 16, 2015",0_0
People living near the fire have been asked to keep windows and doors closed.,0_0
Picture by Anthony Watts. Shift/click to zoom in in another window.,0_0
"""Anti-business Democrats are using their supposed concern for the environment as a tool to end the use of fossil fuels and capitalism,"" said Stone.",0_0
"One Stonyfield ad, for example, reads: ""Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone. Your baby doesn't want it. We're pretty sure cows don't either.""",0_0
"""The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Texas from executing a Mexican citizen despite a White House-backed appeal that claimed the case could affect other foreigners arrested in the U.S. and Americans in legal trouble abroad.""",0_0
"What this means is that upsizing the car fleet may well be the most important step we could take toward improving safety. But upsizing, of course, is what CAFE currently restricts.",0_0
"The graph has time on the X-axis. For this exercise, the interval does not matter except to note that data are equally spaced in time. The Y-axis has a dimensionless model score and is integral. It can increment by 0, 2 or 4 units at a time (like no change= 0, some change =2 units, much change = 4 units.) The dark dots are the arithmetic average of each time slice.",0_0
"CEI Today: Internet sales tax, Exxon-Mobil's carbon tax, and the anti-immigration sentiment",0_0
"I admired Joe and appreciated his insightful investigative writing on the topics mentioned above, but now he is involved with a much more ominous thing, he is working with Dr. Mark Christian on preventing the efforts of CAIR and other muslim terrorist front groups from creating a terrible idea called the Tri-Faith initiative in Omaha, a plan to build a church/synagogue/mosque complex for improving interfaith comity on a now defunct Jewish Golf Course site.",0_0
"Kavanaugh acknowledges that the EPA?s broad interpretation of PSD as applying to ?any? air pollutant is plausible. But, he contends, the EPA should have adopted the ?narrower and more sensible interpretation? limiting PSD to NAAQS air pollutants. By opting for the broader interpretation, the EPA then had to try to deal with the absurd ramifications and rewrite clear statutory language. ?This is a very strange way to interpret a statute.? He explains:",0_0
"That's why my Resolution to stop Utility MACT is so crucial. Contrary to what my critics are saying, this resolution does not prevent EPA from regulating mercury under the Clean Air Act it simply requires EPA to go back to the drawing board to craft a rule in which utilities can actually comply; a rule that does not threaten to end the coal in American electricity generation but helps utilities reduce emissions without having to shut their doors.",0_0
"you shine, the less crime primates commit. Once everybody can see",0_0
"Part Two: Hippies, Warmists & Scaremongers",0_0
"Southern has also received more than half a billion in federal grants under Obama, including hundreds of millions in stimulus funding. This includes money for ""smart grid"" technology and ""carbon capture"" aimed at addressing global warming. Some of this taxpayer-funded profit is now flowing into Obama's coffers.",0_0
"We can only speculate as to actual harm to the patients involved, who very likely would have received drugs that were less effective than those that would have been FDA-approved for the particular indication. In the meantime, the Feds, the attorneys, and Fragoules all get compensated for their trouble. Fragoules will walk away with more than $6 million.",0_0
"A Trojan Horse, green or otherwise, is a good description of LOST. The U.N. has proclaimed that LOST is not ``a static instrument, but rather a dynamic and evolving body of law that must be vigorously safeguarded and its implementation aggressively advanced.''",0_0
"""The Government indicated it could back down if companies could prove it got the figures wrong. A spokesman at the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) admitted: ""This is a very complex programme. But the targets are flexible.'",0_0
"If CAFE had been a privately produced product, it would long ago have been recalled as defective and its producer, NHTSA, jailed for the coverup. But because CAFE is a product of Washington rather than Detroit, it remains in place; worse yet, it threatens to expand in the face of the SUV ""threat.""",0_0
"Compare that with the one year and 45 days it took to build the Empire State Building or the five years it took to build the Hoover Dam in the depths of the Great Depression. In the first half of the last century, Americans knew how to get things done, but the rise of environmentalism in the latter half, starting around the 1970s, has increased the cost and time of any construction anywhere in the U.S. In the case of Yucca Mountain it has raised issues about nuclear waste that is currently stored is less secure conditions.",0_0
"For example, a short drive up to a hilltop (1170 feet) in Bellevue brought sun and ethereal views of the cloud layer below (pictures courtesy of Peter Banda, taken around 4 PM):",0_0
GAO recommended that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy define geoengineering and set clear research priorities. Research is needed to identify and avoid unintended consequences. Researchers should be empowered with funding to figure out what geoengineering can and cannot do.,0_0
"Educationan accessible, high-quality educational system that fosters human development",0_0
"Pollution The Great Smog of London, December 1952. Stagnant air due to an inversion combined with industrial and residential emissions to create an air pollution episode without parallel in this century. 4,000 deaths were attributed to the poisonous air with 4,000 additional fatalities due to related causes.",0_0
I thought I?d play around with some randomly generated time-series and see if I,0_0
"If science is to affect policymaking, an inherently political undertaking, research conducted or funded by government cannot be separated from politics.",0_0
"And in rare moment of sanity, it appears that Australia is being blamed for taking a sensible approach, at least in comparison to other countries. The Age can hardly conceal its disappointment:",0_0
"Barack Obama ""must"" push through climate laws ahead of this year's crucial Copenhagen summit, warns Co2-hysteric Danish minister Connie Hedegaard Todd Stern, the state department's lead climate negotiator, agreed that the prospects for a successful outcome at Copenhagen would be improved if the US could pass climate legislation in advance. ... But Stern told Congress, that America would not meet the short-term target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 to 40% by 2020. "" I don't think it's necessary, and I do know it's not possible ,"" he said. More complete insanity from the Obama administration Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is trying to sell commodity groups on the idea of replacing traditional farm programs with so-called green payments or carbon credits . The groups arent buying it. ... Speaking to the NAWG, Vilsack said direct payments initially were supposed to transition growers away from government payments, but have taken on a life of their own. If direct payments have a limited future, I suggest you think about using climate change to take care of this. Payments would be easier to explain to the man on the street if they were being received for helping the climate . Noting tension in the farm community over direct payments, he said farmers need to come together or they will pick you apart.",0_0
"According to a new poll , just 42 percent of Germans are worried about global warming, down substantially from 62 percent in 2006. The decline is attributed to the Climategate scandal.",0_0
"""The Sierra Club's ""forward on climate' rally is really a ""blackout rally,'"" said Alex Epstein, Founder of the Center for Industrial Progress and ""we're sending in the ""Light Brigade' to debunk false claims, open people's eyes and underline the importance of energy to our economic recovery.""",0_0
A Week of Dire Predictions: Climate Change Conference in Melbourne,0_0
"The report was issued just as the U.S. House of Representatives was to begin consideration of the Waxman-Markey energy bill, which, according to Inside Trade (subscription required), will include a Ways and Means Manager's Amendment with provisions for carbon border adjustments to address competitive and so-called leakage issues.",0_0
I don't want to overexpose him so I will only add his name to this article if he tells me to do so. He wrote:,0_0
Joe Blogs at readmorejoe but also writes essays at American Thinker and now at the Front Page Magazine site by David Horowitz.,0_0
"""The rise in digital music-sales is scant compensation. People tend to buy tracks, not albums, from sites like Apple's iTunes. They can obtain their favourite music much more cheaply than they could in the CD era. And even digital sales are now stalling. In Japan, mobile and online single-track sales rose only a shade during 2009. So far this year Americans have bought 841m digital tracks, mostly from Apple's iTunes, according to Nielsen Soundscandown from 847m at this point last year. Apple now offers plenty of other opportunities to spend money, from iPads to more than 250,000 apps. Music executives believe the company is cannibalising the musical part of its own business.""",0_0
"The solar industry is jubilant over President Obama's Clean Power Plan, released in its final form on Monday, August 3. The same day, however, some other news reminded the public of what happens when government policy mandates and incentivizes a favored energy source: Taxpayer dollars are gobbled up and investors lose out.",0_0
"Although this is seedy and unlawful at any time, it also goes in the ""bad timing"" file, especially for the Obama Administration and the UN.",0_0
"Certainly, changes will be made in the way we achieve our personal mobility.",0_0
"""At the practical level, through the U.N. system we have all kinds of expertise and capacities, even if not adequate resources, to actually do something,"" the paper notes.",0_0
"Yes, Osama bin Laden supports the Kyoto Protocol. And that's supposed to be a recommendation?",0_0
"""We are hostage to a planetary scandal over climate change a war machine whose aim is to keep us in fear,"" he writes.",0_0
"Increased production has also enabled companies to export more gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel, lubricants, and other finished products, since refined product exports were never prohibited. Indeed, U.S. refining capacity is at record levels.",0_0
"In contrast, consider the performance by Mr Obama. The American leader has spent much of his term trying to reassure allies and security partners that faith in America and American leadership is justified.",0_0
Washington Post and CBS receiving money from Obamacare slush fund:,0_0
"China's Assertive BehaviorPart One: On ""Core Interests""",0_0
"To make the story short, the anomaly-producing triangle diagram may also be interpreted as the Feynman diagram for a decay of the new \(Z'\) boson of the \(U(1) a\) groups into two \(SU(2) L\) gauge bosons. When the latter pair is decomposed into the basis of the usual particles we know, the decays may be\[",0_0
"With a newly released poll showing an overwhelming majority of voters including Democrats oppose the investigation, the coalition of attorneys general pressed on, urging a federal court in Texas to uphold a subpoena filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey against Exxon Mobil.",0_0
"Denied the technological advances that energy use enabled, we would live shorter lives and be doomed to labor a poorer life in every sense. We should be thankful our ancestors chose not to legislate in our interests.",0_0
"I hope it is OK if I think that you are just one of millions of people on both sides with equally irrational and biased attitudes to all these questions, so these three paragraphs represent all the time I will dedicate to your blog post.",0_0
"""We are so proud that millions of people plan to show their appreciation for human achievement by doing things like eating diner, watching television, going to the movies, and brushing their teeth. Never before has a new holiday caught on so quickly.""",0_0
"""ActiveX Filtering in the IE9 Release Candidate gives you greater control over how Web pages run on your PC. With ActiveX Filtering, you can turn off ActiveX controls for all Web sites and then turn them back on selectively as you see fit. While ActiveX controls like Adobe Flash are important for Web experiences today for videos and more, some consumers may want to limit how they run for security, performance, or other reasons.""",0_0
"The whole RMA folklore was introduced to NATO right at the time when, in Iraq and Afghanistan, its limits were becoming too obvious to ignore. The Pentagon is today trying to find a better balance between Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) and Culture-Centric Warfare (CCW), and one would hope that ACT will quickly NATO-ize the lessons learned in theater.",0_0
"While 1199 has done well by its membersboosting their pay, benefits, and job securityit imposes diffuse costs on the public. The union's vested interest in elevated levels of government health-care spending has had negative policy consequences over the years, particularly with respect to Medicaid, which supports, on average, one-third of the annual revenues at the five largest medical centers in New York City, all of which employ 1199 members. (Another third, on average, comes from Medicare.) According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, New York State spent $54 billion on Medicaid in 2013, more than one-third of the state budget and the second-highest amount among the states (after California, which has nearly twice as many people).",0_0
"These data do, however, explain why pro-choice deep-blue-state GOP governors act the way they do. The states they govern have much higher concentrations of Post-Modern voters than do the rest of the country. These governors' brand of pro-wealth-creation, pro-redistributive-economics politics is precisely what these voters want. The governors' failure to enact the sort of economic policies favored by libertarians was not a betrayal of their followers; it was a faithful implementation of their constituents' beliefs.",0_0
"(B) The inaccuracies of the eighth document are documented in the attached memo, titled An Analysis of the Forged Heartland Climate Strategy Memo, which was posted on The Heartland Institutes Web site on February 27. I am not aware of any different authentic documents that match your description.",0_0
4) Heavy rainfall https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/are-heavy-rainfalls-on-the-increase-in-the-ukpart-ii/,0_0
reasonable and which is uncooperative. Therein lie some answers to Mann's question about a new Obamian relationship with the rest of the world. The,0_0
"responses from Ray Bradley, Caspar Amman and others.",0_0
"And if the calf is still rejected then she will go off into the woods with the calf, and leave it there. She will prevent it from returning to the herd, and it will die.",0_0
"Hillary Clinton is incredibly lucky the Park Doctrine doesn't apply to her. Just imagine FBI Director James Comey's dilemma if he couldn't use the ""no intent to violate the law"" excuse. In fact, countless government officials including Ms. McCarthy and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen are blessed beyond measure that standards they routinely use against American citizens don't apply to them. In fact, very few laws or regulations apply to the lawmakers and regulators who concoct and impose them.",0_0
You just can't make it up . Hella-cool (though optional) economic analysis here .,0_0
"Some features of ACESA reflect valid insights. For example, the draft bill is certainly right to place a new stress on adaptation and on advancing technology. My statement will also offer a few suggestions about how these efforts might be made more cost-effective.",0_0
"Since she expressed her gun hysterics in 1992, murder and violent crime rates in the US are down 40%. Reality is just too confusing for progressives.",0_0
California Teacher Encourages Political Activism by Elementary School Students,0_0
"In my book , I talk about several other eastern slope thunderstorm road closures and landslides, such as the 1998 and 2012 events on the Yakima Canyon road (SR 821).",0_0
"Tabular bookkeeping models for carbon accounting from land-use change were the best approach at the time they were developed, said Dr. Nancy Harris, lead author of the Winrock study. But the emergence of earth observing satellites combined with an international policy focus on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries has pushed the scientific community to adopt more transparent methods and increasingly spatial approaches to carbon accounting.",0_0
"By Easterbrook & Pielke & Darwall, Real Clear Books, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"Singapore has pursued a similar strategy but has also front-loaded compensation. THis combination allows it to spend less on primary education than almost any other OECD and yet still be able to attract strong candidates into the teaching profession. In addition, because Singapore and South Korea need fewer teachers, they are also in a position to be more selective about who becomes a teacher. This, in turn, increases the status of teaching, making the profession even more attractive.",0_0
"Such are the brute facts of population decline. Why it has happened, what the consequences of it will be, and what we can do to arrest it make up the remaining bulk of Last's book. The most general cause of population decline is modernity itself; birthrates started declining in the nineteenth century when industrialization and technological advances began to accelerate. Better nutrition, sanitation, and health care, for example, have reduced infant mortality in America from about 300 babies dying out of 1,000 live births in 1850, to about six today. More babies surviving lessened the need for multiple pregnancies, which in turn reduced family size.",0_0
"Boasting an old tin ceiling and thick limestone walls, Der Lindenbaum is located in one of the towns original buildings. The prices are reasonable, the portions are large, and the service is outstanding. (Actually, the service is almost instantaneous.) And the food? Ahhh. I had never had jager schnitzel before, and it was absolutely scrumptious.",0_0
"For America's sugar beet growers, whose crop accounts for about half of the refined sugar consumed in the United States, the outcome was far worse. In August 2010, Judge Jeffrey White revoked the USDA's approval of Roundup Ready sugar beets on similar grounds. Although Judge White permitted Roundup Ready beets then in the ground to be grown to maturity and harvested, his decision has sown monumental confusion because an estimated 95 percent of the sugar beets currently grown in the United States are of the Roundup Ready variety. With such intense demand for the genetically engineered variety, sugar beet breeders have cut back substantially on their production of conventional seeds, meaning that beet growers cannot easily switch back to conventional varieties because supplies of seed are inadequate. The commodity price of sugar shot up by 55 percent between August and November 2010, largely as a result of the court's decision.",0_0
"Senior Research Fellow, Energy Economics and Climate ChangeCenter for Data Analysis",0_0
Dark matter direct search: CDMS suggests a light WIMP,0_0
"First, as with any insurance matter, they will ask for a loss run or loss history. Ask your current or previous broker for it. If you don't have any history, don't worry. Unlike with say, getting a loan, getting workers comp. insurance can actually go more smoothly without any history (history only seems to be able to hurt you, not help you much).",0_0
"Book Review of The Neglected Sun : Buy This Book, Our Future May Depend On It",0_0
"I think these folks do a good job of covering the story, and with the proper balance when looking at the likely outcomes:",0_0
Nine Month American Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert,0_0
"On Monday, May 2, Climate Hustle comes to select cinemas nationwide for an exclusive one-night event!",0_0
Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) spoke on the importance of basing decisions of this magnitude on real science and not rushing into any agreement.,0_0
"Could McCain survive in a political climate seemingly designed for his demise (a weak economy, coupled with the eight-year itch to install a new party in the White House)?",0_0
It's time to demote our climate masters to our humble servants. Experts testify. Free people evaluate and decide.,0_0
"Cities simply cannot afford to close their eyes and hope for the best, Bloomberg said, as he and Clinton unveiled the project during a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan.",0_0
The presidents Clean Power Plan is worse than you think,0_0
Closing down the shuttle isn't a way to save money: President Obama actually wants NASA's funding to go up. But he's also canceling the follow-up Constellation program for returning to the moon and turning NASA into a program for Muslim outreach and monitoring climate change.,0_0
"Vodafone, along with its Kenyan subsidiary, Safaricom, developed m-pesa, a mobile payment and value storage system to be used on its phones. Transactions are capped at about $500, but crucially can be person-to-person, acting as digitized cash. Introduced in 2007, it had 9 million users 40 percent of Kenya's population just two years later. By 2013, 17 million Kenyans were using it, with transactions valued at over $24 billion over half of Kenya's GDP.",0_0
"But Romney's campaign says he can't reconsider global warming because he's already flip-flopped on too much else ? including abortion and government-run health care. Democrats such as DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz are having a field day accusing Romney of being a chameleon who has to ""debate with himself on where he is on any issue.""",0_0
"Rather than one guess being applicable to all measurements, I ended up needing four different groups each with a different guessed deflation. A good guess (i.e. one that worked) for the majority of balls (7) was 0.38 psi an interesting number that Ill discuss in the post. A good guess for two balls was zero deflation. But for ball #7, it was necessary to assume that it had been inflated by approximately 0.5 psiin the washroom. One ball was lower than the others (0.76 psi) and remains hard to explain. The Wells Report reasonably drew attention to variability, but did not address the details of actual variability other than arm-waving and did not actually show that erratic washroom deflation was a plausible explanation for observed variability.",0_0
"The slowdown in growth, however, goes back further than a couple of years. The mainstream rise of skepticism can be traced as far back as the economic crisis of 1973-1974. That was when the golden years of the postwar economic boom gave way to sluggish growth. It was also when skeptic texts such as the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth and E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful became international bestsellers. Although America returned to growth after the 1970s recession, the pace of expansion afterward was much slower than the 1950s and 1960s.",0_0
No. 99 - New Source Review: An Evaluation of EPA's Reform Recommendations,0_0
"Allen Oberg, chairman of the wheat boards board of directors, said the unseeded land and low production forecast have put Prairie farmers in a dire situation.",0_0
"On June 15, 15 Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter to the so-called ""AGs United for Clean Power"" on the letter head of Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.The opening of the letter:Several state Attorneys General recently held a press conference under the banner of ""AGs United for Clean Power."" The media event highlighted an investigation into ""whether fossil fuel companies misled investors and the public on the impact of climate change on their businesses."" We think this effort by our colleagues to police the global warming debate through the power of the subpoena is a grave mistake.We all understand the need for a healthy environment, but we represent a wide range of viewpoints regarding the extent to which man contributes to climate change and the costs and benefits of any proposed fix. Nevertheless, we agree on at least one thing this is not a question for the courts. Using law enforcement authority to resolve a public policy debate undermines the trust invested in our offices and threatens free speech.We are concerned that our colleagues' investigation undermines the trust the people have invested in Attorneys General to investigate fraud. Investigatory subpoenas were issued to at least one company and one non-profit believed to have made statements minimizing the risks of climate change. At the press conference, one of our colleagues noted that ""e are pursuing this as we would any other fraud matter."" We routinely investigate fraud, and have done so with many of the states present at the press conference. But this investigation is far from routine. We are unaware of any fraud case combining the following three characteristics: 1) the investigation targets a particular type of market participant; 2) the Attorneys General identify themselves with the competitors of their investigative targets; and 3) the investigation implicates an ongoing public policy debate.Read the rest at the link above.",0_0
"Both Kyoto and LOST purport to regulate Parties' land-based pollution, and as such also provides a vehicle for far-reaching unconstitutional regulatory regimes. Unlike Kyoto, however, LOST has a Tribunal, one which made clear in an early ruling that it will decide its own scope and jurisdiction for Parties subject to its authority, ad hoc. This Tribunal would have authority over Americans and their economy, and would be unaccountable under our laws or limited by our Constitution.",0_0
Correlated Discount Rates and Economic Growth Rates,0_0
"The USDA announced one week later that the genetically engineered sugar beets would be ""partially deregulated"" even though the EIS had not yet been completed. In an attempt to comply with the court order barring complete re-approval, the USDA issued four pages of mandatory, quite draconian limitations and conditions that will at least make it possible for some growers to plant the variety in 2011. Nevertheless, as a result of all this dithering, the uncertainty in the entire regulatory process will discourage breeders from developing and farmers from cultivating not only genetically engineered sugar beets, but other genetically engineered crops as well.",0_0
"on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 at 1:42 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"""My new op-ed in Monday's Wall Street Journal with Mercer law professor David Oedel, ObamaCare and the General Welfare Clause, explains why the new Medicaid mandates imposed on the states suffer from the same General Welfare Clause problem as did the Cornhusker Kickback:""",0_0
"Today we filed a federal lawsuit to block nanosilver, a potent antimicrobial pesticide, from market access. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has conditionally registered nanosilver for use in textiles including such things as clothing, baby blankets, and pillow cases.",0_0
3/27/2008: I uploaded a figure about beta error. The figure is supplied by reader martin ringo.,0_0
"This article will focus on workers comp. from the employers point of view (most state web sites are useless to employers - they have reams of detail for workers on how to file claims or complaints, but nothing to help employers learn how it all works).",0_0
David Archer: The Global Carbon Cycle. Princeton University Press 2010 ISBN: 978-0-691-14413-9,0_0
Australias antarctic runway melting | Sun City News,0_0
Jay Richards frequently writes for the Enterprise Blog and is a contributing editor of THE AMERICAN.,0_0
"settings for those debates, but not the only ones. The broader public square",0_0
the office to discuss their 100-day strategies should they win. Back in June,0_0
We must escape the Environmental Insane Asylum in which they want us to live.,0_0
"After cap-and-trade was thoroughly rejected by the American people and defeated in a Democrat controlled congress, President Obama promised that he wouldn't give up in his efforts to stop coal development. He also said ""Cap-and-trade was just one way of skinning the cat. It was a means, not an end. I'm going to be looking for other means to address this problem.""",0_0
"Similarly, many local assets around the world remain in common ownership in reality, owned by no one. Initiatives such as India's privatization of forest resources seek to address this problem by enabling the titling of assets by indigenous peoples, who can then tap into those resources for access to credit to open up new opportunities. Estimates suggest that similar initiatives could be extended to 900 million plots of land across the developing world.",0_0
Baos research is funded by the National Science Foundation and by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.,0_0
"Good morning. My name is Jonathan Adler. I direct the Environmental Program here at CEI. And as both Senator Craig mentioned and Fred Smith mentioned, there is a lot of discussion about the planet. And we are going to be hearing a little bit more about that this afternoon. But we also thought it would be useful at the beginning of the day to try and give everybody an idea of where the science is and where it isn't in terms of climate change.",0_0
"NYC Councilman Leroy Comrie Proposes Bill Banning ""Happy Meals':",0_0
"That ""the Voting Rights Act of 1965, codified and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized.""",0_0
usually an approach that is designed to fit the particulars of the times and the,0_0
"""If you want to know who is getting the big bucks for climate change research one needs look no farther than our own government. Your government will spend in the neighborhood of 4 billion dollars this year to study climate change. And that?s just this year! You only need to look at the American Association for the Advancement of Science?s 2011 budget request to get the answers. Go down to chapter 15, Climate Change in the FY 2011 Budget. Here you will find out how much money is going to be spent in just one year to save you from climate change. The numbers are staggering. In 2011 your government will spend $10.6 million dollars a day to study, combat and educate people about climate change.""",0_0
"\] is positive for space-like-separated points \(x,y\). It means that the values of the fields at these points, \(\Phi(x)\) and \(\Phi(y)\), tend to have the same sign. Why? The vacuum is full of random oscillations of fields which is the reason why our measurements (of the values of the fields) tend to have somewhat random outcomes; it's quantum mechanics, stupid. Note that the fields and their time derivatives can't be both strictly zero because that would violate the uncertainty principle.",0_0
Q. Lets go to the next slide. And what didExponent conclude as a statistical matter aboutvariability?,0_0
The Heritage Energy Model (HEM) is a derivative of the National Energy Model System (NEMS).,0_0
"Rather than let the issue be reopened, Obama relied on a tight circle of close",0_0
"Lets now see how McCarthy addresses these issues. Vitters questions are in bold type, McCarthys responses are indented, my comments are in blue.",0_0
"Margaret River News, sport and weather | Augusta-Margaret River ...",0_0
"Hagen, Eric. ""The Bungle in the Jungle: Fact and Fiction,"" The Dartmouth Review, February 17, 1993, p. 8.",0_0
An undetermined amount of revenue from sales and use taxes.,0_0
"* Next up is an office vignette. The boss tells his employees, from on high, standing on a ledge Evita-like looking down on them, to cut their carbon emissions or else. When he asks them who doesn't want to do this, he gets out his button and kills three or four people. POP! POP! POP! POP! Like they were in a post office in the 80s.",0_0
""" Last year Duke sought permission from the North Carolina Utilities Commission to classify two of its coal-fired power plants as renewable facilities, because the company wants to burn a combination of wood chips and coal at the plants. NCUC determined the renewables statute allowed that wood derived from whole trees in primary harvest is a biomass resource and thus a renewable energy resource, and therefore approved Dukes application. Environmental Defense Fund and the NC Sustainable Energy Association with Southern Environmental Law Center providing legal help challenged the ruling, and the Court of Appeals sided with NCUC and Duke""",0_0
"Anders Bolling have both on Progress blog, for example Storm Warning avblst, and in book form was one of apokalypsivrarnas's premier critics:",0_0
"OSTP may felt, at first, that it had little choice but to concede that Holdren's statement was information provided by the White House, since it was made in a video posted on the White House web site, and touted on a White House blog.",0_0
"Big Oil is coming out of the closet. Exxon Mobil confirmed earlier this month in a Bloomberg Businessweek article that they support a carbon tax. Shell and BP have signed a Climate Price Communiqu that was distributed on 29th November at the eighteenth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is meeting in Doha, Qatar, this week and next.",0_0
Proof that we honest Americans are powerful and united against the evil empire. We can win if we stick to our beliefs and fight together.,0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Senior Fellow Gregory Conko on why the current compromise won't stick:,0_0
"Swetnams co-authors are Christopher H. Baisan and Ramzi Touchan of the University of Arizona; Anthony C. Caprio of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in Three Rivers, Calif.; Peter M. Brown of the Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research and Colorado State University in Fort Collins; R. Scott Anderson of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff; and Douglas J. Hallett of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.",0_0
"One of my most illuminating discussions was with a senior Israeli military intelligence officer whom I had first met in 2007. He told me he saw both good and bad news regarding the Palestinians. The good news: ""There is cooperationtactical, military, and with civilian infrastructure,""and ""the PA has established order with troops trained in Jordan."" The bad news: ""We cannot implement peace because does not have Gaza. . . . The PA is not capable of taking back Gaza unless we do it for them, which we don't want."" Reclaiming Gaza is indeed a necessary step for any Israeli-Palestinian agreement to take hold. But both Israeli and Palestinian optimists argue that it need not be the first step.",0_0
"Molly: OK, well, I just thought Id ask. (under her breath) Stupid pin-oak .",0_0
UK residents: Feel free to add any information you can find that will help. Still looking for the high temperature time on 8-10-2003 at Gravesend.,0_0
"Malaria is nothing new to Nairobi. Outbreaks occurred there in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. What got malaria ""under control"" there as well as in other areas, including parts of the United States, was the introduction of DDT after World War II. The World Health Organization specifically credited DDT use for preventing a malaria epidemic from reoccurring there after a flood in the early 1960s. But after DDT use stopped due to environmental pressure, malaria returned in many places where it had been nearly eliminated, such as Sri Lanka. And DDT was banned before a malaria eradication program could be launched for most of southern Africa, where the disease now kills to million a year. In fact, the World Health Organization recently just reversed its long-held policy and now encourages DDT use there to combat malaria.",0_0
"Alexander and her team developed a resilience-measuring index for human responses that examined certain long-term security indicators, including economic stability, human health conditions, adult education levels, social connectedness, environmental health, and food and nutrition security. The researchers then tracked those indicators as different weather-related events naturally occurred.",0_0
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"All this is becoming quite the soap opera. Apart from the entertainment being provided for the climate blogosphere, there are three really important issues at stake here:",0_0
"The lower notch at about 1 m is about 2000 yr BP. This level can be found elsewhere, including China and Brazil.",0_0
"Lawfare writ large. The problem is that while trying to quash this ridiculous subpoena, other groups and individuals will be silenced, or at least, have their First Amendment rights curtailed by this bullying.",0_0
"But the most remarkable thing is this. Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining Its not fair before you can say Jack Robinson. A nation may say treaties do not matter, but then, next minute, they spoil their case by saying that the particular treaty they want to break was an unfair one. But if treaties do not matter, and if there is no such thing as Right and Wrong- in other words, if there is no Law of Nature-what is the difference between a fair treaty and an unfair one? Have they not let the cat out of the bag and shown that, whatever they say, they really know the Law of Nature just like anyone else?",0_0
"CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman said, ""CEI is going forward with our motion for sanctions because Walker's withdrawal only strengthens our claim that this subpoena was a constitutional outrage from the very beginning, violating our right to free speech and our donors' right to confidentiality, and threatening the right of all Americans to express views that go against some party line. This subpoena was an abuse of process, plain and simple, and we're determined to see that Walker faces sanctions for his illegal actions that he refuses to recognize.""",0_0
"In the heart of this vision arrival Trofim Lysenko, a self-taught geneticist who promised to transform the desert into the garden of Eden Russian cargo of wheat.",0_0
Air quality in the U.S. has improved considerably since NSR was adopted. The NSR program probably had little to do with this improvement.,0_0
"It seems that whenever government expands either its powers or its enforcement efforts, you should be worried that it could go too far. But such worries have to be balanced against necessity.",0_0
"""PayPal was attacked by Anonymous last year when they had blocked the Wikileaks accounts transactions. Now PayPal has finally come up with enough evidence to strike back at Anonymous with the help of the FBI. PayPal has come up with a list of over 1,000 IP Addresses left behind when they were attacked by Anonymous.""",0_0
"CASH FOR CLOTURE: ""You can't even dignify this squalid racket as bribery: If I try to buy a cop, I have to use my own money. But, when Harry Reid buys a senator, he uses my money, too. It doesn't ""border on immoral': it drives straight through the frontier post and heads for the dark heartland of immoral.""",0_0
"From a Competitive Enterprise Institute PDF by David Murray, ""The Political Economy of Climate Science, Print Media and Climate Change Coverage"", noting Arizona Republic reporter Steve Wilson's November 24, 1995 article quote about ASU professor Robert Balling:",0_0
"Our scientists say that the 5.5 million population can sustain this kind of event, but it has to be managed with the lower hunting quotas, he said.",0_0
"There are things that could be done longer term to make this problem easier to fix, but New York is not known for being bright about such things. For example, YOU could waive union rules and licensing rules during disasters and allow crews from other States free license to join in the repairs. (There have been news reports of crews turned back for not having union cards, for example). YOU could change the permitting and building codes such that large buildings do not have their electrical switch rooms below grade, where a minor storm surge results in a flooded and destroyed electrical room. Or just dont let so much be built on sand bars and coastal flood plains. (YOU can change the building codes)",0_0
"[ UPDATE: My thanks to Paul K, who pointed out in the previous thread that my formula was slightly wrong. In that thread I was using",0_0
"By Mike Wade & Paris Gourtsoyannis, The Times , Via GWPF, Aug 13, 2015",0_0
Survey: 66% think turbines make Scotland a less appealing place to visit,0_0
"It has been pointed out by many opponents of the saturated fat/cholesterol theory of coronary artery disease (CAD) that a paper from January, 2009 shreds this notion. The work is entitled Lipid levels in patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease: An analysis of 136,905 hospitalizations. You can obtain an abstract here , with a link to a free full text version.",0_0
Congress has never voted for the Act to be used as such a framework.,0_0
I suspect we would all agree that assessing any president after 100 days is,0_0
"24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.",0_0
"Now that some of their private communications are exposed a dichotomy has become visible between their public pronouncements and their private thoughts, agreements and schemes. As they lie strewn before us they make an ugly landscape.",0_0
"EPA's reform recommendations and the Bush administration's Clear Skies Initiative would fix some of the biggest problems encountered by an aging, inefficient, and expensive environmental regulatory program. Replacing the NSR program as it affects utilities with the Clear Skies Initiative is a step in the right direction, though judgment must be reserved until legislation for the Initiative is made public.",0_0
The 2014/15 El Nio Part 11 Is the El Nio Dying?,0_0
"Farther downriver, the universities that support learned research and hire scientists to conduct it depend upon federal and state agencies (again from us). To compete for that money they must address topics that are recognized by the orthodox mainstream as being very important. Only then can they hire and produce people who write successful proposals to support staff to do the research to prepare the papers that get published in the respected journals.",0_0
Early action crediting stirred up controversy because it was a strategy to mobilize lobbying for cap-and-trade. Emission-reduction credits worth peanuts or nothing at all in a free market can be worth millions in a carbon-constrained market. Thus every early actor has an incentive to lobby for a cap.,0_0
Thanks to Donald Mitchell and Scott Scarborough for pointing this out.,0_0
"including unfinished business from 2008 (SCHIP, Lilly Ledbetter), things that",0_0
"Its Rickys way of saying, Im the true believer; these guys are the heretics,' said Mike McKenna, a Republican energy strategist who isnt affiliated with a primary candidate. Its very smart and it does have traction. For good or ill, climate change has the feel now of a religious item on both sides.",0_0
"Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker this week plans to introduce a Senate bill targeting U.S. EPAs decision to increase the amount of ethanol allowed in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent, according to a spokesman for the senator.",0_0
"The NSR law was written to apply to new sources only if they exceed threshold levels established in the NSR regulations, and to existing major sources only if they are undergoing modifications that result in significant net increases in emissions.5 The expectation was that older plants would eventually be phased out and newer, cleaner, plants would take their place. This ""grandfathering"" of existing sources of emissions was driven partly by politics, to be sure, but also by economics and common sense.",0_0
"""Slavery and abortion are the two most horrendous things this country has done, but when you think about the immorality of wild, lavish spending on our generation and forcing future generations to do without essentials just so we can live lavishly now, it's pretty immoral."" U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas.",0_0
"But is biology the most reliable source of information on bushfire? Biologists usually use statistical induction, which is a useful tool, but can be misused. Logical blunders have been noticed in refereed natural science journals. Could the broader scope of philosophy help us to get closer to the truth? History, and practical experience, can be astringent cross checks on findings by the scientific method, or a version thereof.",0_0
"One of the unfortunate consequences of the globalization theology of the 1990s has been the withering away of geopolitical thinking in the West. This eclipse of geopolitics is not totally negative, to be sure, for as one pundit put it, ""few modern ideologies are as whimsically all-encompassing, as romantically obscure, as intellectually sloppy, and as likely to start a third world war as the theory of ""geopolitics.'""21",0_0
"At the same time, political consultants focus the bulk of their energies on a two-prong strategy for driving the base voters one way or the other both making sure that your party's base is energized and that the other party's base is depressed. The obvious fallout is that the issues that dominate are the ones that excite or infuriate the bases abortion, same-sex marriage, guns, immigration and the language used to whip up the bases is harsh and extreme. All this does even more to turn off voters in the middle.Other countries like Australia have ameliorated this dynamic by implementing mandatory attendance at the polls Down Under, if one does not show up, even to cast a ballot for ""none of the above,"" a fine of roughly $15 is imposed. The result has been turnout of 90 percent or more. High turnout is nice in and of itself. But Australian politicians of all stripes say that the main impact has been to turn the campaign, the issues and the discourse away from the extremes and toward the persuadable voters in the middle.",0_0
"Since then, Hansen has received better press than Mother Teresa. In hundreds of interviews and glowing profiles, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been treated as objective and/or infallible by an adoring mainstream liberal media.",0_0
"On May 19, 2009, the European Union announced a $4.5 million (3 million euro) project to study retreat of Himalaya glaciers, with TERI being one of the institutions.",0_0
"The summary of the book published by Cambridge University Press is,",0_0
"The website declares: Apart from being a professional medium pace bowler, Dr Pachauri is also a good top-order batsman and a fielder with a sharp catching arm.",0_0
"It offers no reason other than ""as a society, we must reduce gasoline consumption.""",0_0
Desperate Americans Buy Kidneys From Peru Poor in Fatal Trade:,0_0
Chantrill may do better splaining why Piketty is an economics duufus,0_0
"My one regret is that I could not listen to the presentations of all seventy-three of the distinguished speakers. Tracks were set up from which conference participants could select those speakers they wished to hear based on their interests. Four tracks were available at each of the five sessions, three on Monday and two on Tuesday. Two of tracks were devoted to Science and one track each to Economics and Public Policy. Each of the four tracks in every session featured either three or four guest speakers. With this in mind, as a participant who attended all five of the sessions, I was limited to hearing, at the most, seventeen of the featured speakers. Additionally, however, there were two keynote speakers at Sunday's opening supper and two each at breakfast and lunch on both Monday and Tuesday.",0_0
"Agreement signed at Addis Ababa August 24, 2005; entered into force August 24, 2005.",0_0
"For a detailed discussion of air pollution and climate change, see Joel Schwartz and George Taylor. 2005. Air Quality False Alarm, http://www.joelschwartz.com/pdfs/AIR QUALITY FALSE ALARM.pdf.",0_0
Ernst-Georg Beck confirmed Jaworowskis work.,0_0
"Pielke, Jr., R. A. and C. W. Landsea 1998. ""Normalized Hurricane Damages in the United States: 1925-1995,"" Weather and Forecasting, 13: 621-631. Available at http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/USdmg/.",0_0
"25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.",0_0
"G tet, gr nast i landet r",0_0
"By Daniel J. Graeber, Wellington, New Zealand (UPI), Aug 6, 2015",0_0
"Robinson Jeffers saw it ... when you read those lists of famous last words, nobody ever says I wish Id spent more time at the office. Dont mail the envelope in, push the envelope, the journey will end long before any of us wish it to. Live your most impossiblessed dreams, my friends, because any other kind is just a dream. Chance the widdershins steps of the tarantella, lift the ancient curses and look under them for old coins and lost loves and dust bunnies with a vest and a gold pocketwatch, opt for an immediate increase in the uncertainty levels, stay away from the world of adrenalin deficit spending, hold your dearest warm under your heart while you dare the icy seas of life, for the night is assuredly coming ...",0_0
"The Obama Administration announced on Thursday the final rules for new fuel economy standards. By 2016, passenger cars and light trucks (SUVs and pickups) will have to achieve an average of 35.5 miles per gallon. At 36 mpg, the two-seater Smart Car is one of the few current models that already surpasses the average required. These new rules are an amalgam of what Congress mandated in the 2007 anti-energy act and new EPA regulations under the Clean Air Act derived from the Endangerment Finding. As my CEI colleague Marlo Lewis points out in a comprehensive analysis , the new fuel economy rules will trigger a regulatory cascade under the Clean Air Act. CEI sent out a press release criticizing the new rules from several angles. Lawsuits are sure to follow.",0_0
Ms Phyland is a permaculturalist* and teacher with South West TAFE and leads education and consultancy business Thornbill Eco Education.,0_0
"""I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,"" Chambliss said. ""And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail."" After all, a couple of hours with Nanny ought to be enough to sooth anyone .",0_0
"If we measure the spins separately, we get either \(\ket{\uparrow\uparrow}\) or one of the three other options, and all these states are non-entangled! The non-entanglement is guaranteed already when we decide that we measure these ""isolated properties"" of the two subsystems. On the other hand, if we measure the total spin or something like that whose eigenstates are entangled states of the two spins, we're guaranteed to bring the wave function into an entangled state after the measurement.",0_0
"Tim Yeo has been de-selected by his local constituency party, and its a beautiful day. :)",0_0
"(b) You didnt see many new faces on the program because 50 warmists invited to speak refused to show up, and we had set aside space on the program for them. Ive said after nearly every conference since the 3 rd one that this is probably our last conference, and Ive made a fundraising pitch, because the ICCCs are expensive and I suspect they are subject to the law of diminishing returns, but we keep doing them due to popular demand. Stay tuned for news about ICCC-8.",0_0
"This page contains a poll about their fate... Pen Hadow and two companions want to get to the North Pole and supply the Copenhagen conference with the required ""doomsday data"" to ban carbon, the main hallmark element of life, on Earth.",0_0
"The number of Americans worried a great deal about global warming has fallen from 40 percent in 2000. As an issue, however, it has always ranked near the bottom of a list of the top ten environmental problems that Americans worry a great deal about, with only acid rain ranking lower.",0_0
"For a thorough and complete presentation on the true state of climatological research in this area, come hear Dr. Malmquist present his views on global warming and sea level rise in Washington, D.C. at a Cooler Heads science briefing on May 27 at 12:00 noon, Rayburn House Office Building, room 2325. He will be available to answer questions from the press.",0_0
"Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) was the chief promoter of early action crediting in the U.S. Congress. Unlike EPA, however, Lieberman never pretended federal agencies already possess authority to award or certify credits for ""early' reductions.",0_0
"When people use it, I know they have not thought too hard about the issues.",0_0
WAtoday Breaking News from Perth & Western Australia,0_0
"The call for compact cities, filled to the brim with humans, is part of the UN?s depopulation agenda for sure. Within these proposed mega-cities humans will be allowed to use RFID technology so they can be kept in check. The rest of the world, the ?countryside? as one of the scientists told MSNBC, is reserved for the elite.",0_0
"However, a new system is in place, but as with many standards transitions the details are tricky. It will be interesting to see how this mostly free-market transition goes in comparison to government enforced transitions (e.g. television broadcast standards).",0_0
"Now, I don't mind wedge issues per sethough liberals have been decrying them for decades. Still, this is beyond the pale. Ginning up a lot of anger on both sides of the issue without any serious hope of success will in all likelihood send the signal that Washington still thinks it's all a big, unserious game. And that is precisely why we will get more laws like Arizona's and real immigration reform will become that much harder, if Washington ever tries to pursue it seriously.",0_0
"And of course, the rise of independent work isn't just a boon to independent workers, either. It also allows businesses to find more targeted and better qualified talent to address their needstypically at lower costs. Rather than bringing someone in full-time, with benefits and a salary, a company can hire a consultant who's ideally suited to a particular project. And that consultant is likely to have more resources to tackle it than at any time before.",0_0
"Very good, Ben. Well done. More to follow I hope.",0_0
"""Many of the most popular applications, or ""apps,"" on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying informationin effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' namesto dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.""",0_0
"It is time for the Transatlantic chattering class to realize that there is a time for problematizing, and a time for strategizing and that its first order of business should be to stop mistaking a simple transatlantic time lag for a metaphysical problem. In the wake of 9/11, there was an extreme disconnect between an America that had just experienced its first continental aggression since the ""second war of independence"" (the war of 1812) and a Europe convinced that the then-imminent opening of the Brussels constitutional convention was, if not the beginning of universal peace, at least the world's most important event since the Philadelphia Convention of 1787.",0_0
"Upper East Side Woman, Darbe Pitofsky, Ticketed For Using City Trash Can:",0_0
"The real problem, Solomon found out, is that Kim Dabelstein is protected by a Wikipedia administrator named William Connolley.",0_0
"The potential for collaboration between the U.S. and India has grown exponentially in various fields of research and development. With the removal of Indian defense and space organizations from the ""entity list,"" partnerships can be forged between the companies of both countries. Joint research in the field of green energy is another arena, as is American assistance in the fields of agricultural productivity, weather and crop forecasting and water harvesting.",0_0
"National Wildlife Federation, ""Educator Guide,"" Produced by NWF for National Wildlife Week, 1993.",0_0
"These developments are far too typical. Left-Liberal thought police refuse to debate their failed ideas and policies, because they have no answers to inconvenient questions and cannot stomach dissenting views.",0_0
"By the way, do not wait until the last minute to pursue your workers comp policy or renewal - expect at least 2 weeks for a decision, and even then the decision could be ""no, we won't cover you"" and you will have to start from square one. (Update: I have been told that in CA, if you go directly to the state fund, it can take 4-6 weeks to get a decision, but a private broker can get you into a State Fund policy in days. I never tried to go direct, but I have a State Fund policy via a private broker and can attest it was pretty quick that way. As you should with any other aspect of California business, assume that CA workers comp. is more expensive, more difficult, with more litigation land mines and more anti-business traps than most any other state you deal with).",0_0
"The severe conditions in climate brought about crop failure, starvation, disease, death and social unrest.",0_0
"When my kids were about 2, we had trouble with them getting out of bed and coming into our room. Increasing the likelihood of STD's in order to discourage sex strikes me as similar to if I had spread tacks on the ground around my kids bed to keep them from wandering around at night. When we come up with an HIV vaccine, are these groups going to oppose that as well?",0_0
"Today, they say, Republicans stand where Democrats did in 1989. They need to be more moderate.",0_0
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.,0_0
"In some cases, the WTO-UNEP discussion reads like ""on the one hand, and on the other."" The report is bound to provide environmental groups with ammunition to argue that CO2 border taxes are WTO-compliant. However, the issues and their legal precedents are not that clear-cut. What's more likely is that the introduction of border taxes or similar measures will open up a flood of retaliatory actions and disputes.",0_0
"Braidwood News, sport and weather | Braidwood Times",0_0
"The Warden of the Cattle, Richard Marsh, accompanied us and answered all of our questions. I noted that unlike domestic cattle, they are stronger in the forequarters and lacking the large rear ends, so I asked him about their unusual build. He said that they are all like that, built for speed and for fighting rather than for meat. Overall they are an amazing herd, about a hundred bulls, cows, and calves, and the warden was obviously proud to be their champion.",0_0
"According to the book, ""Eco-Sanity,"" ""If deforestation in Brazil accounted for half of all rainforest deforestation in the world, as is generally assumed, then the new estimate means the global rate of rainforest deforestation was just 3 million hectares per year (app. 7.5 million acres) during much of the 1980's. As a percentage of existing rainforests, the annual loss was less than a tenth of one percent.""(Eco-Sanity, p.84)",0_0
"14 Philippe Saunders and Charles Lutes, ""China's ASAT Test: Motivations and Implications,"" INSS-NDU (June 2007); Bernard Cole, The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the Twenty-First Century, 2002; James R. Holmes and Toshi Yoshihara, Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan, 2007; Joshua Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power is Transforming the World, 2007.",0_0
"military nuclear program, it tests the other side's sincerity to see if there is a solid basis for negotiations. Yet there is",0_0
"Always the optimist, I opened with: ""This is an exciting time to be alive!"" and addressed the fact that we were on the cusp of achieving the holy grail of energy security that had eluded decades of American presidents. I pointed out how the Keystone pipeline was an important part of that goal. I talked about my visit to the Canadian oil sands and Mexico's new energy reforms. I bragged about New Mexico's energy riches.",0_0
"I've written extensively on Abengoa, as a part of my ""Obama's green-energy, crony-corruption"" series, and done a detailed report published by The Daily Caller. I've interviewed many former employees and followed its shenanigans. Therefore, I wasn't surprised when, on August 3the same day Obama's Clean Power Plan was toutedheadlines announced, once again, that Abengoa shares ""plunged.""",0_0
"The man serving as the national chief of police in the West Bank is Hazem Atallah, a remarkably fit fifty-six-year-old Jordanian-trained former paratrooper who coordinates closely with Israel's military and clandestine services and calls Israelis ""cousins"" because, as he puts it, ""We are all sons of Abraham."" In our talk he admitted that ""there is coordination with Israelis,"" adding, ""We are not ashamed. We try to show people, do it in the sunlight because we believe it's good for our people.""",0_0
"By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Aug 9, 2015",0_0
"A little-noticed global chasm is occurring today in terms of geopolitics: As the center of gravity of world history is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Western mind, traditionally maritime, is rapidly closing itself to anything other than continental matters, while the Asian mind, traditionally continental, is becoming increasingly maritime in outlook.",0_0
"This, naturally, was music to the ears of the Socialist International (SI), the worldwide organization of socialist and communist parties, which plays an important role at all UN conferences. The Socialist International ? which counted Obama?s ?Climate Czar? Carol Browner among its leaders until she left SI to join the new U.S. administration ? joined the call for committing at least $100 billion per year into a United Nations ?Green Fund,? ostensibly to save the poor.",0_0
"High Noon sponsored a conference in New Delhi, India on May 13 and 14, 2009 (see here ).",0_0
Jennifer Granholm explained that she was chosen to moderate Tuesday,0_0
"It has always been a problem for me to respect superiors who are incompetent, uneducated, inconsistent in their opinions, or incapable, if I had to use one word. On the contrary, I greatly respect the ""bosses and commanders"" who are the ""right men on their places"". For the latter men, I would be able to work for them until the amortization, as Czechs figuratively say...",0_0
"However, given the importance of the issues and the strength of the two dissenting opinions, the case may go to the Supreme Court. Last week, I reviewed Judge Janice Rogers Brown?s dissenting opinion. Today, I review Judge Brett Kavanaugh?s dissent.",0_0
The day the world went mad | George Monbiot | Environment ...,0_0
"This has rightly caused many to point out that it is the oppositions job to hold the government to account, but Miliband had not done so. And moreover, Miliband had given his support to the interventions in question, including the plan he now claims was absent, in 2011:",0_0
Figure 1 includes the weekly sea surface temperature anomalies of the 4 most-often-used NINO regions of the equatorial Pacific . From west to east they include:,0_0
"Life has a way of sending you down unexpected back alleys. One minute, you are firing along on the main street, 4 lanes each way, the whole world makes sense. Traffic cops are just traffic copes and the people on the sidewalk are just shopping. Those 3 gray cars behind you just an accident of lots of folks liking gray and the light being dim enough you cant tell that one of them is really seafoam and not gray",0_0
"Their object: to persuade America and other industrialized countries to sign up for another round of greenhouse gas reductions, and to set up a $100 billion fund to help developing countries reduce their emissions. Early indications are that the meeting will achieve little.",0_0
"The smart money is on Peterson, who now has all the leverage. That could be bad news because environmentalists will do anything to get a climate law, even if it means they have to embrace ethanol.",0_0
Vclav Klaus grades EU politicians,0_0
"But for most environmentalists currently writing on the subject, the story of man's impact on the rainforest is nothing but one of exploitation. Tucker tells of how in SE Asia, the extraction of spices, woods and other products were done for 300 years without hurting the forest ecosystem. And in Africa, only small amounts of hardwood and oil palm nuts were harvested. But in the America's there was a different fate. ""Some New World forests were entirely eliminated by plantation agriculture before the French Revolution transformed Europe's colonial regimes. The agent was sugar, the first widespread tropical monocrop .The Portuguese, taking control of coastal Brazil after 1530, leveled a long forest belt, replacing it with sugar plantations."" These sugar plantations were later moved to Caribbean islands. And besides sugar, hardwood timber was the other early-modern rainforest export.",0_0
This outlook is available here in Adobe Acrobat PDF format,0_0
It's time for taxpayers to stop subsidizing status symbols for the wealthy.,0_0
Help Heartland Celebrate #OurAmerica Throughout July,0_0
"Environmentalists are correct in calling President Obama's decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline a ""symbolic"" victory, but that description is too generous. For them, it's a Pyrrhic victory of the first order because the main factor behind Obama's decision is something environmentalists hate even more than Keystone: hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.",0_0
"Prior to his trip to the region, these allies and partners were crying out for President Obama to offer credible and convincing statements about America's staying power in Asia, and how Washington intends to create economic opportunities and enhance stability in the region.",0_0
"My column in The Times is on the undeniable truth that western countries are preventing Africans getting access to the cheapest power, which is fossil-fuelled.",0_0
Mandatory GMO Food Labeling Implies Risks Where There Are None,0_0
"But in the latest issue of Issues in Science & Technology, Dan Sarewitz shows that, on the evidence of Obamas presidency so far, science-led policy-making is easier said than done. Take Obamas moves to change US stem-cell policy. Bush infamously restricted the use of federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research, limiting research to existing stem-cell lines. Writes Sarewitz:",0_0
"And the establishment itself, divided over its level of support for Trump, battered by a horrible political year, targeted both by the purists and the populists, will have little traction to craft the kinds of policies that both fit its broader philosophy and can achieve meaningful compromises with Democrats.",0_0
But Smith agrees that it is a travesty not to admit STEM graduates educated at American universities who want to apply their talents in this country.,0_0
"And ""some"" media outlets, who don't understand or don't care that Gore is spinning them, allowed him to peddle the biggest set of urban myths to appear on the Internet since Gore ""took the initiative in creating"" it.",0_0
"Eisenhower's Farewell Address reminds us that the risks to our future stem from the fatal conceit to which too many intellectuals are prone. Ike may not have been an intellectual, but he had seen firsthand the destruction that efforts to make the world anew could engender. He recognized the risks of seeking to do too much. Considering all this, like Mitch, I reach a similar conclusion: ""I too, like Ike!""",0_0
Mark Steyns new book on Michael Mann,0_0
"Some of these organizations, the Sierra Club in particular, have squelched local chapters interested in challenging the project. Again according to the Los Angeles Times:",0_0
Amazon.com opens a movie download store.,0_0
"This division of labor creates an inescapable network of human interdependency in which each person specializes in producing one or a small handful of goods, and uses it as his means of payment to purchase from others in society all the other things that he wants, but which they are better at supplying than himself.",0_0
"S was someone lacking the flesh on the festival, there was few klagoml? Ola Broquist, a founder of Way out West meant the radio program P4 Extra that it was only an occasional karlslok who lacked his sausage",0_0
"Whatever happens in November, the fractured Republican Party will struggle for a long, long time to find an identity and a center of gravity. Almost certainly, given the retirements from Congress and the vulnerable incumbents, the relative influence of the Freedom Caucus radical lawmakers who want no compromises will be significantly greater.",0_0
"Ive been working on adaptation for the last 10 years in the Least Developed Countries of Africa and Asia, and Bangladesh is several steps ahead of anybody else.",0_0
"It is also currently being staudio or being built several power in the USA, Spain, Israel, Mexico, India, Morocco.",0_0
Boxer's Own Experts Contradict Obama on Climate Change,0_0
"Anderson recalls that most of the Patriots footballs measured 12.5 psi, though there may have been one or two that measured 12.6 psi. No air was added to or released from these balls because they were within the permissible range. According to Anderson, two of the game balls provided by the Patriots measured below the 12.5 psi threshold. Yette used the air pump provided by the Patriots to inflate those footballs, explaining that he purposefully overshot the range (because it is hard to be precise when adding air), and then gave the footballs back to Anderson, who used the air release valve on his gauge to reduce the pressure down to 12.5 psi.",0_0
"Some light refreezing may take place before the end of September, which could minimize the ability of wind to sharply change extent like we saw recently.",0_0
"Got a person on your christmas list that is fully deserving but cant find that lump of coal at K-Mart at the last minute? Thanks to the good folks at Free Carbon Offsets , you too can join the ranks of the carbon purified. Just visit: www.freecarbonoffsets.com and you can print your own Carbon Offset Certificate suitable for a stocking stuffer forthe most deserving person on your Christmas list.",0_0
Alison Farmer explained that we had made no interview because I apparently asked some completely crazy questions about the quark gluon plasma while her research is mostly about Saturn's rings (I really had to confuse her with someone else during my internet search) while Franziska Michor is in Japan and did not attend.,0_0
"However, Lomborg directly addressed his alleged switch in a Guardian article cited indirectly:",0_0
"Where the foxes caper ... Tally ho! The recently elected mayor of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, has infuriated Britain's politically powerful homosexualist lobby by attempting to withhold local funding for this year's Gay Pride celebrations. The funding for this year's event in June went through, but Mayor Peter Davies, a member of the English Democrat party and the father of Tory MP Philip Davies, has scrapped all future funding for the annual Gay Pride event. ""I'm not a homophobe,"" he said, ""but I don't see why council taxpayers should pay to celebrate anyone's sexuality."" Davies is only the second mayor of Doncaster to have been elected directly by a popular vote rather than by council members. He campaigned on a popular platform, that has reportedly alarmed the political classes on both the Labour and Tory sides of the House, in which he pledged to ""stamp out political correctness"" in every area of Doncaster's local government. To accomplish this, Davies has recruited the group Campaign Against Political Correctness (CAPC) to consult on his planned reforms. A spokesman for the CAPC, John Midgley, said that ""people are crying out"" for an end to the wave of politically correct policies in Britain. ""We commissioned a survey by ICM,"" Midgley said, ""that said 80 per cent of people are fed up to the back teeth with it."" Davies promised to end council funding for ""politically correct initiatives"" and to ""scrap politically correct non-jobs"" such as ""community cohesion officers"" and ""encourage the former employees to seek meaningful employment."" In his first week in office, Davies fulfilled his promises by cutting his own salary from 73,000 to 30,000; reducing the number of councillors from 63 to 21, saving the town 800,000 a year. He immediately announced plans to reduce council tax by 3 per cent and got rid of the mayoral limousine. He ended a ""twinning"" arrangement with five towns around the world, which he described as ""just for people to fly off and have a binge at the council's expense."" More at the Daily Mail and Telegraph . (link fixed) Read 'em both. h/t Edward Michael George",0_0
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2015/08/11/how-agriculture-is-booming-in-africa/,0_0
Twitter users may be interested in two new members of the Twitterati:,0_0
"These jackasses deserve to live in a world without food, then they will saywell gee, producing food is good, and sometimes it produces things like dust.",0_0
It will be interesting to see how they defend their profligate and environmentally harmful ways.,0_0
Thanks to everyone who emailed their comment to the Board. Your voices were heard. Well done!,0_0
"These differences follow through to the social issues. Senator Paul is pro-life. He favors giving states the authority to define marriage as they want, but he does not favor same-sex marriage. He is opposed to gun control. And his views on immigration are far from those held by Post-Moderns. In short, on a range of issues, Senator Paul himself is not the sort of person that Post-Moderns will flock to.",0_0
Daily Alternative News Desk GrahamHancock.com,0_0
"With the election of FDR, the pilgrims had their chance. Those conservatives who lately have inclined to some sentimental affection for FDR (this includes Conrad Black and, occasionally, this writer) will be roundly disabused by the damning portrait Shlaes offers. ""Roosevelt was not an ideologue or a radical,"" she judges, but his affinity for experimentation and improvisation yielded inconsistent and destabilizing economic policy at a time when certainty was the most needful thing. FDR's intellectual instability was terrifying in its fullness; fortunately, it was tempered by the rivalries and disagreements within his menagerie of New Dealers, and by the countervailing power of American political institutions (which prevented him from, e.g., packing the Supreme Court).",0_0
"LIKE VIRTUALLY ALL modern revolutions, the latest Russian one was started by a hesitant liberalization ""from above"" and its rationale extended well beyond the necessity to correct the economy or make the international environment more benign. The core of Gorbachev's enterprise was undeniably idealistic: He wanted to build a more moral Soviet Union.",0_0
would approach a particular bank and explain how the money that flowed through,0_0
"""Abraham went on to assemble a list of things Christopher Monckton begin of the skype highlighting end of the skype highlighting didn't say, complained about things he didn't cite (even if he did and it's printed on his slides), pretended he couldn't find sources (but didn't take ten minutes to ask), and created a litany of communication pollution in an effort to denigrate Monckton's character.""",0_0
"CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.",0_0
"Kruauthammer rips oil company congressional ""show trials': ""A disgrace':",0_0
"Such developments would be beneficial to New York, and especially to New York City, where 1199 now seems like an irresistible force for the progressive Left. But progressivism won't always be ascendant. New York will never be a conservative city, but it has traditionally thrived when some right-leaning force has imbued its inherent liberalism with sanity. ""Sanity"" is about the last thing New York gets from 1199's dominance.",0_0
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"In the 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court decided to re-prove this old maxim. Overwhelmed by the assumed righteousness of various states and environmental groups that were appealing the decision of the Bush administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reject their demand that regulatory controls be imposed on carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act, the Court ordered the agency to do so, in a decision of surpassing silliness and great potential damage.",0_0
"11 H. H. Lamb, Climate, History and the Modern World (London and New York: Methuen, 1985), 387 pp.",0_0
balance sheets of the banks and other financial institutions because of carbon,0_0
"These differences did not arise with Bill Clinton, though. The seeds for this Democratic division extend much further back in our political history, to the start of the current political era in the 1960s. Each side in this progressive civil war draws different lessons from what happened in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, lessons that carried through into their different paths in the 1990s and remain to the present day.",0_0
"Moreover, as its name indicates, the Prevention of Significant Deterioration statute is designed primarily to prevent ?deterioration? of an attainment area?s air quality. The relevant air quality standards that define whether an area is in attainment are the NAAQS. In a statute expressly linked to the NAAQS and designed to ensure that air quality does not ?deteriorate? with respect to the NAAQS, it is somewhat illogical to read the statute as requiring pre-construction permits simply because a facility may emit substances that will not affect attainment of the NAAQS. Under EPA?s approach, a facility could be covered by the permitting requirement even if it emits no NAAQS air pollutants at all. That, too, makes little sense and suggests that EPA has misread the statute.",0_0
Drinking the Kool-Aid on Cholesterol: An Oldie But Goodie,0_0
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"But he is taking too narrow a view of his relevance. It is important to the nation that he establish that relevance not only here but to an increasingly belligerent China, which is mocking America by shoring up Putin with pre-payments for natural gas and oil, challenging our allies' territorial claims, refusing to rein in North Korea's expanding nuclear arsenal, and otherwise treating our president as if he is, well, irrelevant, a man with a pivot about as threatening as that of a ballerina.",0_0
"Two other factors affecting deforestation are also worth noting. First, is that not all deforestation is the same, or has the same characteristics. For example, while much attention is paid to so-called ""rainforest"" destruction in the Amazon, according to wildlife ecologist Thomas Lacher of Texas A&M;, fires reported for Legal Amazonia are very often in the savannah areas where ranching and other activities are being conducted, but it is made to sound like it is in the middle of lush, green jungle.",0_0
"I will kindly avoid the discussion of some additional concepts they use such as the ""superinformation medium"". Those things are bullit on steroids. Reality does in no way emerge from a ""cosmic copyright law"" and their mixing of buzzwords from classical and modern physics with the words from everyday life such as ""kettles"" and ""copyright laws"" and ""Sherlock Holmes"" or with sensationally sounding redundant new clichs such as ""constructors"" or ""superinformation medium"" or ""subsidiary theories"" or ""output attributes of substrates"" (no kidding) is beyond the pale. All these things are used by them not only to mask that they're complete morons but even to look as smart folks in the eyes of people who are even more hopeless morons than themselves. I just can't stand such games that are all about people's pretense.",0_0
"Meanwhile, those Gulf refineries will still import crude oil, only from the Middle East. Surely it makes more sense for them to depend on Canada rather than oppressive and often volatile regimes halfway around the world.",0_0
"Then one Christmas Eve, the farmer came with an axe instead of food.",0_0
President Obama has a new climate change message for America: Protect the children!,0_0
"The game official mentioned something about their efforts to locate a usable football. Shortly after, Jackson noticed that the Patriots were using the Colts footballs late in the first half. Jackson said it was odd to him that New England couldnt find a football to use, especially in the AFC Championship Game.",0_0
"Mark Christian MD is a former muslim, groomed for leadership in Egypt as the son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader, who is now a Christian. He is an eloquent voice warning of the dangers of the jihadi schemers. He understands the Islamic concepts of deceit, , taqia, dawa and kitman but most well-intentioned westerners are not aware of the viper in the sheets that is intent on destroying infidel culture for the greater glory and tyranny, the ultimate goal, the world-wide sharia caliphate.",0_0
Thanks to Steve McIntyre for suggeting I do this analysis and helping me figure this out and a special thanks to RomanM who was patient to answer my questions and thanks to Eric Steig who made this so much more entertaining than it should be.,0_0
The U.S. extends its control over the internet by agreeing to a new contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).,0_0
"To date, at least $390 million of the GEF's funds have been channeled to projects in which Green lobbying organizations are listed as the ""executing agencies"" or ""collaborating organizations"" (see chart). Lobbyists for environmental regulations like the World Wildlife Fund, International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and even the extremist Greenpeace have been on the receiving end of this green pork.",0_0
"It's part of a long line of broken promises, such as Obama's pledge to enact a ""net spending cut,"" which he discarded by offering mind-bogglingly large budgets that will explode the national debt through $9.3 trillion in massively increased deficit spending.",0_0
"An interesting drama is playing out in the Mojave Desert where major national environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council among others, are on board with a plan to effectively destroy six-square miles of public lands. The project is a national energy pet project-a solar energy production facility. According to the Los Angeles Times (Feb 5, 2012),",0_0
"James L. Gattuso and Diane Katz, ""Red Tape Rising: Six Years of Escalating Regulation Under Obama,"" Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 3015, May 11, 2015, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/05/red-tape-rising-six-years-of-escalating-regulation-under-obama.",0_0
"Myron Ebell, who leads the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), said the GOP's efforts could dismantle the Paris agreement.",0_0
"He could then add: ""You might call me what you will, and if my State Department translators are right, you have used some pretty disrespectful language, of the sort you usually reserve for leaders of countries powerless to make an effective response. I call me ""relevant'. Refuse to cooperate and you will make my day and the last two years of my presidency.""",0_0
"Just last month, 24 state attorneys general, including one quarter of all Democratic state attorneys general, filed suit to overturn Utility MACT because of the devastating effects it will have on jobs and their states' economies; these are Democrats from Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, West Virginia, and Wyoming. In other words, it appears that Democrat AG's from several states are trying to save coal, while the Democratic Senators from these same states are carrying out President Obama's war on coal.",0_0
"In a press release issued August 10 assessing the state of nuclear power worldwide, the International Atomic Energy Agency regretted the lack of progress on Kyoto.",0_0
"At first the audience was puzzledafter all, both the environmentalists and the unions are ""friends"" of the Administration. I asked: ""What have the unions done lately?"" And answered: ""Publically embarrassed Obama on his signature legislation."" The lights came on.",0_0
"Scott's brief history is only two sentences, but it contains two glaring errors. First, many people predicted that the bill's passage in the House was its high water mark. I was far from being the only observer to think that the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill faced dim odds in the upper chamber.",0_0
"33 Admiral Mike Mullen, ""What I Believe: Eight Tenets That Guide My Vision for the 21st Century Navy,"" Proceedings (January 2006); ""We Can't Do It Alone,"" Honolulu Advertiser (October 29, 2006); ""Principles for a Free and Secure Global Maritime Network,"" RUSI Journal (February 2006); Amy Klamper, ""The 1,000 Ship Navy,"" Sea Power (February 17, 2007). See also Joel Sokolsky, Projecting Stability: NATO and Multilateral Naval Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era, 1998",0_0
"As one of the few long-standing democracies in Asia, India shares deep values with the United States. The 3 million-strong Indian-American diaspora has enriched American life for decades and contributed in all spheres of American politics, economy and academia. Further, over 100,000 Indian students come to study in the U.S. every year, and when most of them return to India they carry back with them American ideas and American understanding, which helps to deepen the bonds between the two countries. Rantan Tata, the head of one of India's oldest and largest companies, Tata Sons, recently announced a $50 million donation to his alma mater Harvard University.",0_0
"""I don't have much patience for people who deny climate change"" the American President said last Wednesday. His new Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said, ""I am not interested in debating what is not debatable.""",0_0
Corporal Smith remembered as a great leader | Namoi Valley ...,0_0
"Sir Humphrys wife, Katharine, came from nearby Howick Hall. Howick is yet another Grey property and once part of the Chillingham Estates. So they have brought Grey blood home to ChillinghamCastle once again. Sir Humphry bought the lands around the Castle but was gifted the ruined building which had never been sold in its thousand-year history.",0_0
"This attack on CEI is the latest in an ever increasing trend of the government intimidation of conservatives. It follows the IRS targeting scandal and the ""John Doe"" investigation in to Scott Walker's allies in Wisconsin.",0_0
New data and methods paint clearer picture of emissions from tropical deforestation,0_0
"Yes, and it was getting warmer when the First World War broke out. And didnt Napoleon start his campaigns in Winter a lot? And last week, during that cold snap, a fight broke out at the local pub. Maybe that was caused by climate change.",0_0
Microsoft has told us about a fresh bug in its Internet Explorer web browser which is being exploited in a zero day attack.,0_0
"Roughly 5,500 farmers across the country had planted more than a quarter million acres of Roundup Ready alfalfa when, in 2007, Judge Charles Breyer revoked its approval over concerns about Roundup-resistant weeds and potential effects on organic farmers concerns that USDA scientists and regulators had already considered and rejected. Fortunately, Roundup Ready alfalfa had not yet been widely adopted, and Judge Breyer's decision permitted farmers to continue to grow and then harvest the alfalfa crop they had already planted. The court's injunction only prohibited the sale of new seed until the USDA could complete the EIS and then re-approve the variety.",0_0
"In this case (in which attorneys with my Competitive Enterprise Institute served as co-counsel), the two-person Nevada accounting firm Beckstead & Watts challenged the constitutionality of the board that issues the costly accounting mandates under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. In her October 2009 brief for the Supreme Court, Kagan argued that the court should throw the case out before even considering the constitutional merits.",0_0
"CFACT's team arrives in Rio June 12. Our delegation will cover the UN organizing meeting in Rio, June 13-15, send part of its delegation to the ICLEI/Agenda 21 World Congress in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 14-17 and regroup for the Rio+20 summit, June 20-22.",0_0
You could not ask for a more clear expression of the iron law of climate change and its implications that that which was given by President Obama today in a press conference (emphasis added):,0_0
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio . Tonight, for your delectation, here are Saskia Konz and the Lugansk Philharmonic Orchestra performing Greensleeves , Kurt Schmid conducting, in Austria, in 2007 (4:08). Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.",0_0
"Organic dairy producers, who are desperately in need of reasons to get consumers to buy their more expensive products, nevertheless try to scare consumers about conventionally produced milk even though the Department of Agriculture has stated that ""organic"" is strictly a marketing term without any health or environmental connotations, and the FDA and state regulators specifically have warned organic dairy producers against scaring consumers about rbST.",0_0
"Smith further notes that while such ideas ""widely disseminated in the media and among decision-makers in sociopolitical life have created the impression that Amazonia is essentially a `clean- slate' this latest wave of clearing is taking place on landscapes that have often been through several slash-and-burn cycles in the distant past.""",0_0
"* New polls show that Obama is doing well in swing states. In the latest Gallup survey of key swing states, Obama has a 9-point advantage.",0_0
"This is a morally and politically repugnant view. What right does the West have to dictate poverty to the rest of the world? To insist that through our hard work we can live in nice houses and drive fine cars, but they should not? Yet this is the orthodoxy embodied in the notion of sustainable development.",0_0
"Restore federalism and the separation of powers for Congress and state governments, and end the deference that courts too often give to agency discretion and authority for even outrageous actions and power grabs by federal agencies.",0_0
"""The biggest change is for the Flip digital video camera business which is being closed down. Cisco acquired Flip as part of its acquisition of Pure Digital Technology in March of 2009 for $590 million.""",0_0
"WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 1997 Competitive Enterprise Institute announced today that its president and founder, Fred L. Smith, Jr. will testify before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. The Committee is holding the hearing in order to examine global warming policies and the impact on the American Economy.",0_0
"Given the vast scope of the Federal government now, any conceivable agenda from any president barely scratches the surface of the thorough unshackling of American enterprise that needs to be done.",0_0
"Kerry: Tonight, were joined by Senator Penny Wong.",0_0
Context clearly narrows the meaning of ?pollutant? in the CAA regional haze and NAAQS non-attainment provisions:,0_0
"Cheryl Dybas, NSF (703) 292-7734 cdybas@nsf.gov",0_0
"The following article is an excerpt from the original posting at Orange Punch, a blog at the Orange County Register.",0_0
South Australian Liberal party votes in leadership spill | Mudgee ...,0_0
opposing some things said by people like Chris Landsea who has said all the,0_0
"So what of Crimea and the explosion of the Islamic State and al Qaeda across the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia? What of the nearly half-million Syrian lives lost or that country's 4 million refugees? What of Iran's sequential violations of its missile deals with the West? Of China's growing menace in the South China Sea? What of the exploitation of the youth Obama professes to care for in Cuba and Venezuela? What of America's stand as a beacon of democratic capitalism, of humane leadership, and compassion?",0_0
"Kicking sand in this administration's face is a one way bet for the Russians. The Americans will sulk and pout and make inspiring speeches about the arc of history, but the weaker they look the less anyone cares about all that. There are no consequences to embarrassing Obama, hanging Kerry out to dry, or to walking away from a deal the Americans spent months begging you to accept. Under this President, they will just come back for another round of negotiations from a weaker bargaining position.",0_0
The Act requires EPA to regulate air pollutants which in its judgment endanger public health or welfare.,0_0
"17.	""Law on financial support for renewable energies "" No. Policies which mimic the style of controlled economies will torpedo the Social Market Economy, the basic pillar of our prosperity.",0_0
"what the absolute values of the energy imbalance were in the past, are presently and will be in the future.",0_0
"In the same way that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's background as a prosecutor contributed to the law-and-order ethos of his administration, the activist cast of the de Blasio administration finds its roots in the progressive union culture of 1199. As the liberal- and labor-friendly New York Times put it: ""In Bill de Blasio's City Hall, it seems more and more, there is only a left wing."" What distinguishes New York's progressive establishment from those in other cities is its political successwhich would not have been possible without 1199's financial and organizational support.",0_0
"TSN is much more than an attempt to make a virtue of necessity. The Thousand Ship Navy the ""Great White Fleet"" of the twenty-first century represents a revolution in military affairs in that the concept raises the ""network-centric"" paradigm established by Admiral Cebrowsky from the domain of strategy (Network-Centric Warfare) to that of security (Global Maritime Partnership). In the process, it brings back a much-needed balance between techno-centric and culture-centric skills as components of success. Just as important, the TSN concept also represents a revolution in diplomatic affairs, in that a global maritime partnership would go beyond the traditional military-to-military contacts and, as Admiral Mullen points out, would unite ""maritime forces, port operators, commercial shippers, and international, governmental and nongovernmental agencies to address mutual concerns.""",0_0
"Also today, in a joint letter from a dozen free market and conservative groups, CEI cautions the Senate Energy Committee that a provision in Senator Chuck Hagel's S. 388, the Climate Change Technology Deployment and Infrastructure Credit Act, would give DOE the authority it lacks under current law.",0_0
Meet the skeptics at CFACT's COP16 press conference,0_0
"Oil prices fluctuate over time, but the tax and regulatory burden seems headed in only one direction up. Since Washington created this burden, Washington can also reduce it. If the federal government wants to get serious about dealing with high gasoline prices, this should be the place to start.",0_0
"The productive class consists of natural liberals who want a system in which people reap the rewards of their accomplishments and receive the just consequences of their misdeeds. Such people believe in liberty and are willing to accept the personal responsibility without which liberty cannot exist. The nation's aristocracy, by contrast, needs a powerful, controlling state in order to maintain their perks, privileges, and prestige based on an elaborate scheme of mannerisms and shibboleths no less rigid and arbitrary than those of the court of Louis XIV.",0_0
"This description of the situation is perhaps too optimistic but we may get pretty close to it so next week, I will be watching what is actually in the report and the summary.",0_0
Conclusion #1: Congress's intent in adopting NSR in 1997 was to protect air quality by requiring major emitters of air pollutants to install state-of-the-art emission control technology when building new plants nad when making major modifications to existing facilities that would result in significantly increased emissions.,0_0
"program. Well, I have run the numbers, and it is at least 83% welfare.",0_0
"Moderate, regular alcohol consumption is generally associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular events but data in patients with chronic heart failure (HF) are scarce. We evaluated the relations between wine consumption, health status, circulating biomarkers and clinical outcomes in a large Italian population of patients with chronic HF enrolled in a multicenter clinical trial.",0_0
"President Bill Clinton has nominated UN Ambassador Bill Richardson as Secretary of Energy, where he will oversee the federal government's alternative energy subsidy programs. Clinton said that a top Richardson priority will be global warming. ""I believe that this challenge will require the greatest energy from our labs, from our scientists and technology, from an Energy Department that can work clearly with the private sector on what plainly will be one of America's most important priorities for years and years to come,"" Clinton said (Reuters, June 18, 1998).",0_0
"The late Petr Beckmann, a Czech physicist, fled to the U.S. in 1963. He became known here for his pro-technology and anti-environmentalist writings. In 1991, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prof. Beckmann visited Leningrad and talked to a young reporter about defending science against the Luddites. They had this exchange:",0_0
"Flush It will be premiered at the Battle of Ideas festival in November well worth a visit, for the film, and for the many debates relating to the subject, whatever your views.",0_0
"Amy Solomon, Lisa Goddard, Arun Kumar, James Carton, Clara Deser, Ichiro Fukumori, Arthur M. Greene, Gabriele Hegerl, Ben Kirtman, Yochanan Kushnir, Matthew Newman, Doug Smith, Dan Vimont, Tom Delworth, Gerald A. Meehl, and Timothy Stockdale.",0_0
Did the new president get his team in place quickly? Savvy presidents start,0_0
"Liberal and leftish economists in the audience, please explain the line in bold.",0_0
"a) Asian women working full-time in 2014 earned more per week on average ($841) than black ($680) and Hispanic men ($616). Stated differently, Hispanic men earn only 73 cents for every $1 the average Asian woman earns, and black men earn only 81 cents for every dollar the average Asian woman earns. Do those pay disparities reflect gender discrimination against men? Or minority (Asian) privilege?",0_0
"announced in your budget, for national health insurance, for a cap-and-trade",0_0
"The Obama adminisitration's global warming strategy was left lying on a hotel computer where it was discovered and leaked to John Vidal of the Guardian. According to this document the American delegation intends to press ahead towards a treaty, is prepared to take unilateral action in the U.S. and plans a large-scale campaign to placate environmental NGOs, spin the media and bypass it as needed. Details at www.cfact.eu.",0_0
"Nambucca Heads News, sport and weather | Guardian News",0_0
"You'd think by now Sen. Boxer would get it. Maybe she does. Maybe what really bugs her is that the Bush administration today narrowly avoided a public policy disaster. Just think, if EPA had rushed to set CO2 standards for new cars and trucks, the ensuing regulatory cascade could have given us the equivalent of a dozen Kyoto Protocols, yet without Sen. Boxer or any of her allies on the Hill voting for it or taking responsibility for the economic fallout. It would all have been George Bush's mess. How convenient for them!",0_0
"Apple Inc rejoined the EPEAT environmental ratings system on Friday, acknowledging that its decision to stop participating in a program that rates the green credentials of electronic products was a mistake.",0_0
Boom & Bust Madness: An Empirical Look at the Fed's Dollar Binge,0_0
"Ryan Young: As predicted, he is not acknowledging that while a higher minimum wage would give raises to some workers, there is a tradeoff. Other workers will be fired, or will not be hired at all. It's perfectly fine to argue that the increase is worth that tradeoff. But one must acknowledge that the tradeoff exists. If it didn't, I'd propose a $1,000/hour minimum wage.",0_0
"BP Supported Obama Stimulus Package, Global Warming Bill, and Corporate Welfare; BP Bankrolled Obama Campaign",0_0
Jimmy Carter hung a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Georgia Capitol. Bill Clinton combined Arkansas roots with East Coast education and connections.,0_0
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) discussed the role of the U. S. Senate during the treaty process and expressed concern that the Clinton Administration is negotiating a treaty without input from the Senate.,0_0
"Families will face severe sleep deprivation, greater stress and depression, and more drug and alcohol abuse, spousal and child abuse, theft and robbery. Nutrition and medical care will suffer. More people will have strokes and heart attacks. More will die prematurely or commit suicide. More elderly people will perish from hypothermia, because they cannot affordto heat their homes properly.",0_0
>> From: Mike Hulme,0_0
"The U.S. Agriculture Department last week raised its estimates of food price inflation due to soaring grain prices tied to the drought, saying prices could rise as much as 3.5 percent this year and another 3-4 percent in 2013, led by meat.",0_0
"John: Sorry, should have mentioned it earlier. The Labor Party will be resigning on Monday. Well probably be the first government in history to resign in protest at their own incompetence.",0_0
"some witty dialog (clever), a dangerous wagon ride (cruel), Calvin acting like a",0_0
"The April issue of AEI's Political Report covers polls on the presidential contest, environmental and energy issues, and world affairs.",0_0
"It is amazing to me that there can be numerous health care plans in Congress plus a jillion speeches on the topic by the President and not once does anyone mention ""torts."" Now, I am not one to ascribe all cost problems in the medical field to defensive medicine and tort settlements. Buthey t certainly are a factor. It is just stunning that a President can stand up and talk numerous times about ""unnecessary tests and procedures"" and ascribe all of these to some weird profit motive by the doctors - weird because generally, the doctor gets no extra revenue from these tests, so somehow he or she is motivated by the profits of a third party lab.",0_0
The Cooler Heads Coalition has posted a remarkable criticism by Professor Ross McKitrick on globalwarming.org .,0_0
"The author of Energy Freedom, Marita Noon serves as the executive director for Energy Makes America Great Inc. and the companion educational organization, the Citizens' Alliance for Responsible Energy (CARE). Together they work to educate the public and influence policy makers regarding energy, its role in freedom, and the American way of life. Combining energy, news, politics, and, the environment through public events, speaking engagements, and media, the organizations' combined efforts serve as America's voice for energy.",0_0
The following discussion is Chapter 4.7 of my book Who Turned on the Heat?,0_0
"These, naturally, are by no means the only issues upon which the President should focus. Other policy issues such as salmon restoration, charter forests, wetlands restoration, biotechnology, and clean air also come to mind as important environmental topics. Of course, the likelihood that all these matters will be settled over the tenure of his next four years is far-fetched, and no one should expect miracles from any Administration, leave alone this one. But it is clear that this President has a unique opportunity to make an imprint on weighty subjects with the clout and support few of his predecessors ever enjoyed. Only time will tell if he can do so effectively.",0_0
Yale holding conference on conferring personhood on animals,0_0
"Consider Immelt's non-sequitur: ""I'm a businessman. That's all I care about, is jobs."" Since when is creating jobs all that businessmen care about? Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of businessmen. Most love giving people productive jobs to do. But if all businessmen cared about was creating jobs, most of them would go out of business. Good businessmen care about creating and satisfying customers, and in the case of publicly held corporations like GE they care about increasing shareholder value. Or, at least, that is what they are supposed to care about.",0_0
"On June 13, 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Report to the President on New Source Review (NSR), a program created by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 to regulate emissions from new or substantially modified factories and power plants. We have been asked whether the recommendations for NSR reform contained in EPA's 2002 Report to the President are justified by the record and consistent with the need for continued protection and improvement of air quality, Congressional intent, and benefit-cost analysis.",0_0
"The FOE claim that any President can possibly ""protect communities"" is absurd. That is a lie.",0_0
"on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 5:22 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
In view of the damage done by this ethical approach this report calls for a public debate on alternative approaches to intergenerational equity and for an end to the measures that are currently being used to address it.,0_0
"The GOPthe entity that prides itself as ""the party of ideas""began losing its identity a few years ago from an ideological standpoint.",0_0
2015 US Budget Plan includes permanent PTC,0_0
"Mark Feldhausen, associate superintendent for educational services, this week sent a letter to parents who complained, including the wife of U.S. Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska, outlining the committee's findings.",0_0
"on Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at 4:32 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for CFACT and the Congress of Racial Equality. He is the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power Black Death available in German and English from CFACT Europe.,0_0
"Amazon deforestation in 2009 declines to lowest on record Annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell below 10,000 square kilometers for the first time since record-keeping began, reported Brazil's Environment Minister Carlos Minc on Sunday. No more committee action on climate - Patrick O'Connor and Lisa Lerer - POLITICO.com The bills path through Congress is reminiscent of The Little Engine That Could, with a determined core of Democrats pushing the legislation forward despite significant opposition from many of their own colleagues. ... But Peterson, a blunt, independent-minded chairman, has become something of a stalking horse for other Democrats who would rather not vote on the bill but wont speak out for fear of angering Waxman and the speaker. Some dislike the legislation itself, while others are quietly prodding their leaders to take up health care reform before addressing climate change.",0_0
The banner from Judith Currys blog. Click to visit.,0_0
Bwin To Maintain Majority Ownership in PartyGaming Merger:,0_0
"Meanwhile, protesters think all we have to do is spread the wealth around. Sounds enticing, doesn't it? Kind of like your parents raising your allowance only now you and your friends are old enough to vote on getting your allowance raised. Cool!",0_0
"A slew of new and highly regarded environmental books in 2004 is testimony to the persistence of environmental apocalyticism, despite growing signs of environmental progress in the United States and the developing world. The persistence of doomsaying is an indicator of the staleness of popular environmental thought, which is increasing removed from political reality and closed-minded toward innovative thinking about real environmental problems and their solutions.",0_0
KY hospital sues SEIU for harassing phone calls:,0_0
"Hur hgt pris mste vrlden betala fr den grna galenskapen? frgar tnkaren Walter Russell Mead. Hur mnga r kommer att frloras, hur mycket trovrdighet, hur mycket frslsade pengar innan vi har en miljrrelse som har den intellektuella stringens, politiska visdom och mognad, nykter bedmningsfrmga som krvs fr att ta fatt i de stora frgor som vi str infr?",0_0
"The super PAC Restore our Future, which supports Romney, attacked Gingrich in the days before the election for having so much in common with President Obama, such as supporting cap and trade and expressing belief in climate change.",0_0
"My guess is that 2012 will hold more good news for lukewarmers, both in terms of supportive scientific findings, and also in a migration of folks towards the middle of this issue. As being lukewarm becomes a bit more comfortable, I imagine that more folks will join the happy middle?and maybe my lunch calendar will start to fill up!",0_0
"These changes give poorer countries a demographic dividend. For several decades the bulk of their population will be of working age, with relatively few dependents, old or young. This should lead to higher per capita incomes and production levels. Nations with low fertility rates, meanwhile, will face major fiscal and political problems. In a pay-as-you-go pension system, for example, there will be fewer workers to finance the pensions of retirees; people will either have to pay more in taxes or work longer.",0_0
The original design by Simpson is often designated as an IGY neutron monitor . From that link:,0_0
"Barack Obama delivers a speech on the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe.",0_0
"Qui tam is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur , meaning Who sues on behalf of the King as well as for himself. Such actions are brought by an informer or relator. Usually, these cases are filed under some statute which establishes a penalty for particular violations, and monetary damages are split between the relator and the state or other institution. In popular parlance, these relators are known as whistle-blowers.",0_0
"Goondiwindi News, sport and weather | Goondiwindi Argus",0_0
"At a press briefing this morning, representatives of the G8 leaders insisted that much had been achieved on climate change. And the announcement, for its certain there will be one at about 10.15am EST, is expected to be a compromise that would allow both Europe and America to claim victory. Leaked documents from last night, show no agreement, only an impasse.",0_0
"Health Care, Climate Change and Nobel Economics",0_0
"(WASHINGTON, DC, OCTOBER 27,1998) --General Motors, Monsanto, British Petroleum, and the World Resources Institute (WRI), today called for actions to reduce the risk of climate change. The group announced that for proactive leaders there are major business opportunities in meeting the climate challenge, if the policy environment is right. The comments were made at a Washington, DC, press briefing introducing the collaboration entitled ""Safe Climat~e, Sound Business.""",0_0
"These debates also replayed old progressive debates on how to engage in American politics. Moderate progressives, who believed that liberal progressivism was to blame for prior defeats, emphasized the role independents would play in the election and counseled ameliorative incremental measures. Liberal progressives, who believed that lack of boldness and improper campaign tactics were responsible for prior defeats, focused on policies that would energize liberal progressiveswho supposedly normally do not voteto show up at the polls.",0_0
"How can the politicians make sure America never experiences another Rita? They need to go straight to the top. Disasters are exacerbated by moving the responsibility for things up, up and awayas far from the things themselves as possible.",0_0
"PS. Copies to concerned citizens, politicians and theologians",0_0
"Agreement signed at Gaborone October 5, 2006; entered into force November 19, 2006. With annex.",0_0
"""The purpose of the whole exercise"" was to ""force the nation's major metropolitan areas to reduce levels of ozone and particulates and greenhouse gases all within the same regulatory framework,"" says Cohen. ""Had the court not faulted the way EPA arrived at its new standards the country could well be on the way to implementing a treaty the Senate will probably never ratify.""",0_0
"If you want to read all the gory details in this sordid case, visit www.OregonStateOutrage.com. If you want to tell OSU what you think of its actions, send a message to President Ray at pres.office@oregonstate.edu and todd.simmons@oregonstate.edu in the OSU press office.",0_0
advisers to help orchestrate the drawdown of troops and prioritize achievable,0_0
"Speaking afterwards to reporters, Kosciusko-Morizet said the United States ""has yet to back"" to the proposal, citing questions of sovereignty.",0_0
"Emails acquired by CEI showed that Carlin's boss rejected the report's findings because they ""do not help the legal or policy case for this decision,"" according to Fox News.",0_0
"Dear RegBlog: Special Interests Can Capture Agencies, Too",0_0
"American pediatricians, as might be predicted, are cautiousthey are a cautious bunch in my experience and conservative about interventions.",0_0
"Just look at the actions of our governor and folks like Joe Arpaio. If it really were the case that illegal immigrants are all criminals uninterested in legal work, then why is so much recent legislation aimed at business owners that hire illegal immigrants? Or at day labor centers? Why are all of Sheriff Joe's immigration sweeps raiding lawful businesses rather than, say, crack houses? After all, if illegal immigrants are all just drug dealers not looking for real work, why spend so much time looking for them, uh, doing real work?",0_0
and the interestingly named King Arthurs Round Table Henge,0_0
"Churchman, C.W. (1948): Theory of experimental inference. Macmillan, New York, 292 pp.",0_0
"For President Obama, our first post-American president, surrendering sovereignty seems perfectly reasonable, consistent with his essentially European social-democratic worldview. Obama sees his foreign-policy role less as an advocate for America's ""parochial"" interests and more as a ""citizen of the world,"" in his own phrase.",0_0
"on Monday, February 1st, 2010 at 6:29 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"From an op-ed in today's WSJ titled ""In Defense of Carbon Dioxide"" by Harrison Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an Apollo 17 astronaut, and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico; and William Happer, professor of physics at Princeton University and a former director of the office of energy research at the U.S. Department of Energy:",0_0
CEI: With the late Julian Simon you wrote It's Getting Better All the Time. Is it really? Why? And what do you mean by that?,0_0
"Let us now Allocating on a ramp instead for a pulse, what applies addition to the atmosphere estimates lies in dagslget p more than about 1% contribution from fossilfrbrnning per year to the existing multitude of. We assume for simplicity, 1%, and terstller now atmosfrens concentration to 1 concentration unit:",0_0
Two Fed officials favor aggressive easing options:,0_0
"For four years, Obama's actions have undermined his rhetoric on transparency and on standing up to the special interests. So it's fitting that he'll kick off his second four years with reduced disclosure regarding large contributions from politically connected corporations.Timothy P.Carney, The Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted at /* */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--;)if(t.getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling)){p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail')){for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16)).slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e)),c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* */ His column appears Monday and Thursday, and his stories and blog posts appear on washingtonexaminer.com.",0_0
"on Saturday, October 30th, 2010 at 11:00 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"I especially like his reminding us of Charles Dickens?s Bleak House and Mrs. Jellyby, the so called ?telescopic philanthropist? who tries to help at a distance, but neglects her own children. I also like his point that by asking for a higher discount rate ?it is not that we do not care about distant generations. It is that we do care about the present generation and about our children?s generation? (p. 83).",0_0
"While Sanger delves into the Obama team's exertion of American power to discern a policy style, James Mann is interested in their deliberate efforts to devise a foreign policy framework matching their",0_0
Lee Lane is resident fellow and codirector of the AEI Geoengineering Project.,0_0
"8 Robert Kagan, ""Power and Weakness,"" Policy Review (June/July 2002).",0_0
"Sheerness, England - READ flaterco.com/pol.html",0_0
"As you read this, I'm doing two things in separate browser windows. First, I'm shopping around for that Shelby limited edition turbo pacemaker that I've always wanted. The other is shopping around for a private health insurer in Quebec that can help me get that puppy installed. Yeah, baby !",0_0
"Joseph Bast is president of The Heartland Institute and coauthor of Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1996). Jay Lehr, Ph.D., is science director of The Heartland Institute and editor of McGraw-Hill's Standard Handbook of Environmental Science, Health, and Technology. James Taylor is managing editor of Environment & Climate News, a national monthly publication produced by The Heartland Institute.",0_0
"The homeowner would not only require the other experts to be men but also to have male, technical attitude to this technical question.",0_0
"Yes, we have problems. Some people are using terror to achieve their goals, and we don't seem to be able to stop themafter all this time, Ralph Nader is still on the loose.",0_0
The White House is giving fishermen and lobster boats who rely on the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument seven years to leave the area after regional fishing groups lobbied the administration to allow for fishing to continue in the region.,0_0
"on Monday, April 13th, 2015 at 9:44 pm and is filed under News.",0_0
Quoted in Donald Gillies' submission to the House of Commons Science and Technology COmmittee. H/T Judith Curry.,0_0
"For owners of sports utility vehicles (SUVs), that pretty much sums up the last holiday season. They went into Thanksgiving under fire from the ""What Would Jesus Drive?"" campaign. Then the New Year started with Arianna Huffington's charge that they were aiding Osama bin Laden. To top it off, in late January the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) declared that SUVs were simply too deadly for his children.",0_0
"The duos first book called on policymakers and businesspeople on the right to show they had better ideas for protecting the environment and creating jobs than government did. The new book is a collection of essays by various businesspeople and scientists to be edited and stitched together by Gingrich and, mostly, Maple, a former chief executive of the Palm Beach Zoo.",0_0
"Health Care. As table 2 shows, about half (almost 47 percent) of the indirect energy consumed within health care involves the preparation of pharmaceuticals. Physician services come next, accounting for roughly 18.5 percent of health care's indirect energy use. Some of this energy consumption is undoubtedly well spent, but some of it may result from bad incentive structures that encourage doctors to use unnecessary and energy-intensive tests and machinery. In addition, prescription drug waste is extensive. As Representative Tim Murphy (R-Ohio) observes on his web site, unused medications may account for as much as $1 billion in wasted drug costs among elderly Americans each year, and waste at long-term care facilities is quite high. The value of unused drugs in long-term care facilities may be as high as $378 million, with more than 90 percent of the wasted medication due to change in prescription, death, or transfer of the resident.",0_0
James K. Glassman is a resident fellow at AEI.,0_0
"Now that BP is ""back to petroleum,"" perhaps now its moniker should be ""Beyond Puff-power.""",0_0
"The Cooler Heads Digest is the weekly e-mail publication of the Cooler Heads Coalition. For the latest news and commentary check out the Coalitions website, www.globalwarming.org.",0_0
"New perils, then, but also new promises. The maritime dimension is an opportunity for European allies to go beyond the ""EU sandbox"" and play a global role at relatively little cost, if only because public opinion will always find a maritime commitment more palatable than a continental one. For many allies like Norway and Greece, a greater maritime commitment on the part of NATO would also be a way to display niche capabilities (it's not as if the U.S. Navy had a surplus of mine-sweepers) that they don't necessarily possess in land operations. Last but not least, for a country like France, a middle-sized power as a land power but a maritime superpower of sorts (the third largest EEZ in the world thanks to its South Pacific possessions), a greater maritime commitment would be a way to maintain a leadership position. When it comes to NATO, to be sure, France, since 1958, has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. With Chirac and Villepin gone, however, it may well be that France will no longer confuse History with histrionics, and volonte de puissance with capacite de nuisance.",0_0
"The difficulty for plaintiffs in all of these climate change lawsuits is that their legal theories have little basis in positive law or judicial precedent. The common law theories relied on by U.S. plaintiffs require courts to make vast leaps from prior judicial rulings, while the international law claims made elsewhere require courts to extract concrete legal rules from vague principles like fairness, sustainability, and the precautionary principle.",0_0
Nurse caught on CCTV turning off paralyzed patient's life support machine:,0_0
I thank you for your understanding and assertively request your endorsement of my application.,0_0
"Vclav Klaus, preface to the Czech edition of Nigel Lawson?s ?Appeal to Reason? (?Vra?me se k rozumu. O globln m oteplovn st? zliv? a bez emoc ?, Doko?n Publishers, Prague, 2009); translated from Czech by Michaela Dvo?kov.",0_0
"rubber hits the road as it inevitably will, to conquer Congress.",0_0
"Since NEPA was enacted, however, prodding by environmentalists and decisions by compliant judges have expanded its coverage to such an extent that courts now interpret the term ""human environment"" to include not just tangible ecological harms that affect people and human communities, but also impacts that are economic, social, cultural, historic, or aesthetic. One decision by a federal district court in Minnesota illustrates just how liberally the statute is interpreted:",0_0
"How unfortunate that this is not required reading in the schoolroom. Meanwhile, please do have a look.",0_0
"When you store it in a freezer, it tastes different, Oomittuk said.",0_0
Social Capitaltrustworthiness in relationships and strong communities,0_0
"""While most Transportation Security Administration employees are busy groping people or taking naked pictures of them, the cops say one of those employees was putting fliers' electronics down his pants.""",0_0
"China's one-party autocracy can ignore such arguments. Our two-party democracy can't. Thomas Friedman may lament what Barack Obama on Wednesday night called ""bickering."" But in a democracy citizens don't always take the advice of their betters, even that of Friedman and the three experts he quotesa climateprogress.org blogger, a former Clinton budget official, and a ""global trade consultant who teaches at Baruch College.""",0_0
"G F(x,y)\neq 0\text{ for } (x-y)^\mu (x-y) \mu \lt 0.",0_0
"we felt that we needed to voluntarily withdraw the paper in press with the journal, amend the text and add some extra supplementary material justifying our method...",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on the impact of the new rules:,0_0
"The implications of such a finding are enormous; most commentators say fostering growth is a critical driver of support for developing countries. As the excellent new book by AEI visiting scholar R. Glenn Hubbard and Columbia Business School lecturer William Duggan, The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2009), explains, most aid, though well intentioned, actually undermines the local business sectors in the poorest nations and should be refocused to help local businesses. Prosperity Index data broadly support this conclusion.",0_0
Roger Bate is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.,0_0
"/s/ Robert F. Thompson JSC, Program Manager, Space Shuttle, 44 years/s/ Frank Van Renesselaer Hdq., Mgr. Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters, 15 years",0_0
"12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that ""air pollution is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone."" Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during ""smog disasters"" in New York and Los Angeles.",0_0
"Indians applaud President Obama's open appreciation and acknowledgement not only of Indian history and culture, but of the independent path India took toward prosperity. This path, which included a socialist economy and non-alignment, was one of the key causes for estrangement between these two democracies during the Cold War era.",0_0
"What I think folks are missing who make this argument about precedent is that while many examples exist of the Executive Branch excercising proprietorial discretion, the circumstances are without precedent in both scale and well as in its explicit defiance of legislative intent. One can argue that Reagan's executive actions vis a vis immigration provide a precedent, for example, but Reagan was essentially following the intent of then-recent Congressional legislation, arguably just fixing flaws with executive orders in the way that legislation was written. What he did was what Congress wanted.",0_0
"A key element of AWEDs efforts ispublic education. Towards that end, every 3 weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream mediaabout energy and environmental matters. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.",0_0
Benjamin Zycher is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.,0_0
"Moghissi brilliantly quotes Thomas Jefferson in his presentation, who said, ""I know no safe repository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it away from them but to inform their discretion by education.""",0_0
"A coalition of environmental advocacy groups is pushing for the implementation of a federally financed environmentalist agenda in the curricula of all public schools.The benign-sounding No Child Left Inside Act, HB 3036, won U.S. House of Representatives approval on a 294-109 vote September 19, with only one Democrat (Rep. Brad Ellsworth of Indiana) opposed and two ranking Republicans on the Education Committee (Reps. Howard McKeon of California and Michael Castle of Delaware) in support.Congress went into fall recess before the Senate acted on the measure, but the bill could be integrated with the No Child Left Behind reauthorization next year or attached to a spending bill in the post-election lame-duck session.Two dozen environmental groups, led by the Sierra Club and Chesapeake Bay Foundation, are lobbying for the measure, which would award grants for integrating environmentalist precepts into curricula, academic standards, and teacher preparation.The money could go not just to school districts but to the very nonprofit advocacy organizations working to pass the bill.Objectivity Voted DownBy a 230-172 vote, the House rejected an amendment proposed by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) that would have barred lobbying groups from receiving the grants and would have sought scientific accuracy and balance in what students were taught about the environment through the funded programs.The coalition's Web site, hosted by the Chesapeake Bay group, indicates the slant it would seek in classrooms by defining ""the problem"" as, among other things, climate change, childhood obesity, and something called ""nature-deficit disorder.""That is a term author Richard Louv coined in his book Last Child in the Woods, where he argued children are losing touch with the natural world and hence becoming vulnerable to maladies such as attention deficit disorder, depression, and obesity.The theory is an intriguing (if unproven) one, but should Washington take over from parents, churches, and community groups the task of taking kids out on hikes to commune with nature?Humans BlamedAs for climate change, the coalition asserts, ""the issue of global climate change requires Americans to understand the human-created challenges facing our world and the options facing our nation moving forward. It is projected that major societal change will be needed in response to global warming. To that end, each of us may be called upon to make changes to reduce the impact on the environment.""That statement assumes global warming is occurring as a result of the activities of man, and that drastic, mandatory changes in modern living will be necessary to curb it. Clearly, the federally funded curriculum would side with the forces led by former Vice President Al Gore falsely contending the science is settled on all this and no room exists for debate.If enacted, No Child Left Inside, the chief sponsor of which is Maryland Democrat Rep. John Sarbanes, would require state grant recipients to show how they were measuring ""student environmental literacy"" and instilling environmental know-how in teachers. Advocacy groups receiving grants would design their own evaluation and accountability plans.Important Story OverlookedIn a September 22 statement, EdWatch Action, a citizens group in Minnesota, called HB 3036 an ""unconstitutional expansion of the federal government into the realm of education that promotes unscientific, non-academic, politically correct environmental propaganda.""The environmental standards, curriculum, and programs funded by this bill that are to be put in every subject would take valuable time and resources from core academic issues,"" the group continued. ""The grants also promote programs that are supposed to teach bogus, subjective, and political concepts like self-esteem and environmental justice.""In an early autumn dominated by news of a mind-boggling $700 billion federal bailout of financial institutions, this effort to use federal power to mandate environmentalist indoctrination throughout the nation's classrooms received little ink or airtime.No Child Left Inside deserves a lot more attention in the context of the larger question of whether Americans should be able to choose the kinds of schools they want for their children or have to accept the standardized, politicized versions mandated by politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups.Robert Holland (rholland@heartland.org) is senior fellow for education policy with The Heartland Institute.",0_0
UN Watch - Top Rights Prize Nominee Supports Killing Israelis,0_0
The plan drew immediate criticism from the Competitive Enterprise Institute.,0_0
Americans and Europeans will ignore this Dutch court decision at their peril. The ruling will be cited widely as similar cases come before courts around the globe. It should be roundly dismissed for what it isa blatant affront to democratic government and a dangerous departure from the rule of law.,0_0
"Similarly, a wise NATO policy should always make sure that NATO-Russia security cooperation is always stronger than Russia-China security cooperation. By the same token, and given the always-possible energy Finlandization of Europe, a wise NATO policy should make sure that the NATO-Russia Council always remains one step ahead of the EU-Russia Permanent Council.19",0_0
"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Policy Analyst Michelle Minton on the alternative celebration of ""Human Achievement Hour"":",0_0
"Message to EPA""You Have Done Enough"" Let Them Know Your Thoughts",0_0
"FOR MORE INFORMATION To contact a CEI expert for comment or interviews, please call the CEI communications department at 202-331-2273 or email to pr@cei.org.",0_0
very much enjoyed will let you know when it hits the Mission Beach,0_0
The Securities and Exchange Commission prepares to relax some of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate accounting rules.,0_0
"It's tough to have a tea party these days. Regulations and permits were not a part of the first one. The good folks from MillionTeaBags.org ought to know. They dropped by CEI on April 15 with a problem. The Park Service told them that while they had a perfectly legal permit to demonstrate in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, that day, they hadn't specifically asked if they could display the one million bags of tea they had trucked in.",0_0
"One common refrain, however, was that this is just a start. We're told we need to do more. How much more? What can we do to parlay this ""monumental success"" into the solution the president spoke of? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said this in Paris:",0_0
"Personally, I prefer Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts",0_0
"Also important is the remarkably symbolic involvement of the host of the Kyoto talks, Japan, as a founding member.",0_0
"> >> placed to do it. Either way, it should work with people at Cape Town,",0_0
"""New Source Review"" (NSR) refers to a permitting program whose basic requirements were established in 1977 as Parts C and D of Title 1 of the Clean Air Act.1 The purpose of the program ""is to ensure that when new sources are built or existing sources undergo major modifications: (1) air quality improves if the change occurs where the air currently does not meet federal air quality standards; and (2) air quality is not significantly degraded where the air currently meets federal standards.""2 The NSR program attempts to achieve its mission by requiring best available control technology (BACT) or lowest achievable emissions rate (LAER) technology be installed when new units are built or when major modifications are made to existing plants that would lead to a significant increase in emissions.",0_0
"Obama caves on promise, Internet to be regulated by FCC",0_0
"Nasser al-Kidwa, Yasser Arafat's nephew, member of Fatah's governing central committee, and for many years the quite able Palestine Liberation Organization representative to the United Nations, was equally vehement: ""We lost elections because we failed to deliver on promises to our people. We failed to deliver a Palestinian state. We failed to deliver independence. The overwhelming majority of people would definitely support a reasonable settlement that offers peace, that offers a better life.""",0_0
"The regime's apparent concessions help it play for time on sanctions, about which AEI scholars Bolton, Danielle Pletka, and Paul Wolfowitz have written extensively. In congressional testimony, Pletka said tough sanctions could be a means to persuade ""Iran's leaders to consider serious negotiations with the international community."" In a recent op-ed, Bolton says, ""we must ask whether the harm will be sufficient to dissuade Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons. Objectively, there is no reason to believe that it will."" Wolfowitz writes that ""normally, even the toughest sanctions would be unlikely to persuade Tehran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons. . . . However, circumstances in Iran are no longer normal."" He argues that tough economic sanctions could be used, along with other forms of support, to push for regime change in Iran. He urges the United States to do ""what we can to support the forces of reform in Iran, both symbolically and practically. . . . That means the toughest possible sanctions, and soon. Time is running out."" Pletka says sanctions ""are not a silver bullet, and they may not deliver an end to the Iranian nuclear program."" On the Enterprise Blog, she recently suggested that the administration take ""French lessons"" from French president Nicholas Sarkozy, whose government has been out in front of the United States in urging a hard-edged approach to Iran. Bolton argues that ""adapting tougher sanctions is simply another detour away from the hard decisions on whether to accept a nuclear Iran or support using force to prevent it.""",0_0
"Fayyad has gone further in security cooperation with Israel than any previous Palestinian figure, an approach that he defends as beneficial to both societies: ""Security is not only an Israeli need; it is equally a Palestinian need. And given the distances between us, it's a small neighborhood, and a rough one at that. Security is a shared interest, definitely.""",0_0
"In the forests of India, something exciting is going on. Villagers are regaining property taken from them when the British colonial authorities nationalized their forests. Just as exciting, in urban Kenya and elsewhere, people are doing away with the need for banks by exchanging and saving their money digitally. All over the world, poor people are discovering the blessings of bottom-up capitalism.",0_0
"GROUPS FIGHT CARBON TAX IN WASHINGTON STATE, NO MONEY FOR THEM",0_0
"on Friday, July 23rd, 2010 at 10:21 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"In our system of government, the president is traditionally afforded much more latitude for discretion and unilateral authority in dealing with national security issues than we permit him in other arenas. This, I think, is quite proper. Precisely for this reason, however, decent people should start to squirm when expressions of frustration with the inability of our democratic process to reach the ""correct"" conclusion on key public policy issues come to coexist with assertions that matters such as childhood obesity, climate change, health care, education policy, and government debt are ""national security"" challenges. We should be wary when our government approaches that intellectual frontier. As the old mariners' maps used to put it, there be dragons.",0_0
"The peacekeepers are now also building a ""standing justice and corrections element"" to go with the semi-permanent police force a permanent strike force to establish courts and prisons in nations where peacekeepers are stationed.",0_0
"on Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at 6:01 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"The reality, then, is that Kyoto is doomed and it is its greatest champion, the European Union, which is destined to reveal this to the world. Tony Blair cannot be ignorant of this. When the G8 comes to meet, do not be surprised if the leaders discuss other ways of combating global warming rather than the targets and commitments approach of Kyoto. Technology, energy efficiency and scientific research will probably all be mentioned, along with further tentative steps down the road to nuclear power (if the Greens allow that particular method).",0_0
"Friedman declares that ""our one-party democracy is worse"" than the Chinese model.",0_0
"Many domestic import terminals are petitioning the government to convert their facilities for exports. So far, the administration has approved exports to nations with which the US has a trade agreement, but only one of about fifteen facility applications to export LNG to non-free trade countriesCheniere Energy's Sabine Pass facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. However, even in the case of Sabine Pass, final approval has been held up by the opposition by anti-fracking environmental groups, led by the Sierra Club, and in anticipation of the now-released DOE impact study.",0_0
"A more turbulent schism developed in the 1970s, when the antiwar and antiestablishment liberal wing led by Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern fought the establishment of Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, and Richard Daley, with a bloody confrontation in Chicago in 1968, McGovern's short-lived triumph in 1972, and a resurgent liberal movement in the Watergate elections of 1974. The liberal wing resisted many of the policies of Jimmy Carter; the liberal challenge of Edward M. Kennedy to Carter in 1980 helped to doom his reelection chances. But more consecutive presidential losses in 1980, 1984, and 1988 by liberals Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis moved the party in a more pragmatic direction with the Clinton eraBill Clinton having been a moderate governor of Arkansas and the leader of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council.",0_0
David Shorr is a career-long analyst and commentator on national security affairs and U.S. foreign policy. He blogs at DemocracyArsenal.org.,0_0
"Hoover Institution Press today released Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order by Ken Anderson. In this book, Anderson examines the relationship between the United States and the United Nations and analyzes their interaction on issues including security, human rights, and development. Anderson scrutinizes key functions of the UN and, importantly, lays out principles that address the crucial question of whether, when, and to what degree the US should work with the UN.",0_0
"Following the announcement, several heads of Canadian oil companies strongly criticized Prime Minister Jean Chretien for his decision. Gwyn Morgan, chief executive of EnCana Inc., North America's largest independent energy company, wrote a strongly worded, eight-page letter to Chretien, which said that ""signing the Kyoto Protocol would go down in history as one of the most damaging international agreements ever signed by a Canadian Prime Minister.""",0_0
"Video: Salt Guru debunks Heart Association ""body count' study",0_0
"Enclosed are copies of Senator Craig, Senator Hagel, and Paul O'Sullivan's remarks and a copy of the conference schedule. Please contact Emily McGee at 202-331-1010 if you would like to get a transcript of any other speakers or if you have any other questions.",0_0
"Organizations whom we expect to tell the truth keep telling us that ""climate change is one of the biggest global security threats of the 21st century."" This was a recent statement by ""world leaders"" like the G7, a group of finance ministers and central bank governors of seven advanced economies, the International Monetary Fund, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States. On April 17 they adopted a report about the ""threat"" put together by think tanks that included the European Union Institute for Security Studies and the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.",0_0
"Mitchieville is the funniest blog in Canada, if not the entire western spiral arm of the galaxy. I know this because the mayor himself has written this fact on the back of a photoshopped picture he sent me of him holding a gun to my head. You can vote for the Mayor here .",0_0
CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller on the regulatory obstacles to developing a bird flu vaccine:,0_0
"Potential nuclear operators can apply for an optional ""early site permit"" from the NRC to address preliminary safety and environmental issues at a particular site. Such permits would be good for 10 to 20 years, allowing companies flexibility. Two potential projects- Exelon's Clinton in Illinois and Entergy's Grand Gulf in Mississippi- have won early site permits from the NRC after application periods lasted over three years. Two other projects continue to wait.",0_0
"""The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has borrowed a populist Democratic theme for its latest round of attack ads, featuring red flags, menacing-sounding songs, and Asian calligraphy fonts to accuse vulnerable House incumbents are outsourcing jobs to you-know-where.""",0_0
"XIAN, China ? Congress should not waste time debating a comprehensive climate change legislation in the coming year.",0_0
"House to Obama on Nuke Waste: No Yucca, no deal",0_0
"If you have any of the missing files, please send a copy to info@gallopingcamel.info",0_0
"Instead hes concerned about its effect on the hearts and minds of American college students. (That one goes back to Vietnam, where the U.S. campaign to win hearts and minds was a failure.)",0_0
"""On the other hand, Virginia spends big money on advertising to entice people to wager on the games it runs, the Mega Millions and Pick 3 of the state lottery.""",0_0
"* While originating as an agro-ecological design theory, permaculture has developed a large international following. This permaculture community continues to expand on the original ideas, integrating a range of ideas of alternative culture , through a network of publications, permaculture gardens, intentional communities , training programs, and internet forums. In this way, permaculture has become both a design system and a culture of rewilding the human species. So now you know. ( source )",0_0
"""A U.S. federal appeals court has denied a request by the Winklevoss twins to release them from their settlement with Facebook over their allegations that Mark Zuckerberg improperly appropriated their idea for the social networking site.""",0_0
"The NSR program may have reflected state-of-the-art thinking on air pollution regulation when it was adopted 25 years ago, but considerable thought since then has been given to finding better ways to reduce emissions and protect the environment. It should hardly be a surprise that NSR could be based on obsolete ideas and techniques.",0_0
"Rivera and the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), which represented 175 hospitals and nursing homes in the city, began working together almost as soon as he became president. The partnership took concrete form with the creation of the joint Healthcare Education Project, which now forms the cornerstone of New York's ""medical industrial complex"": the coalition of unions, providers, and advocates that keep health-care costs high by promoting ""institution-focused care"" over less expensive home- and community-based options.",0_0
"Now legislation is moving to give the president trade promotion authority, without which the Obama administration will be unable to complete the ongoing negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.",0_0
"This was, said James Murray, disgracefully confected outrage over Ed Milibands foreign policy speech, as though Ed Milibands speech wasnt the self-same confected outrage and worse, confected outrage from a man who actively supported the intervention and failed to ask questions of the Government in the following four years, in spite of weekly opportunities to put such questions to the Prime Minister directly. And even worse, this criticism came from the leader of a party whose own record of poor judgement has left hundreds of thousands dead across the world under the doctrine of humanitarian intervention.",0_0
Maine Superior Court rules against state agency,0_0
"Heading into the Guadalajara meeting, numerous questions have been raised. Now that Bush is gone, will the controversial SPP continue at all? Given summit fatigue and domestic priorities, do these leaders really need another annual meeting on their calendar? And in Washington, there is the question: Do we need to devote a whole summit to just Canada and Mexico?",0_0
"conservative columnist David Brooks, from one of the Democratic Party's deepest",0_0
"A Border Collie puppy came into our lives on Sunday 11th August 1996 rather sooner than expected. Wed agreed to buy him for 50 a couple of days earlier after we saw him at Rabbit Farm in Criccieth, North Wales. When we went to see him again on Sunday, we were told that we could take him away there and then, so we did. There we were with a new puppy on a Sunday with no food, bowls, or lead and there were few shops open. I remember that he cried all the way during the car journey back to our touring caravan that we kept at my in-laws sea-side home in Dinas Dinlle. We left him with our two children and went off to purchase the essential items.",0_0
Did the newly elected president treat the first 100 days as beginning the day,0_0
"The governor's chief energy adviser, Steve Walz, says the Kaine administration has taken no position on whether reversing the ban makes sense. ""That's why we wanted to see the results of the study, to help us make a determination.""",0_0
"America needs a new approach on immigration. The amnesty-only approach of the 1980s failed, while the ""get tough"" attitude simply seems to be driving more newcomers into the shadows. The new approach should focus on reducing government barriers -- and government handouts -- to immigrants. That is a hope that all aspiring immigrants, conservatives, and indeed even liberals could and should unite around. Virginia is not a border state; perhaps this means it is well-placed to lead the way.",0_0
"The CFACT team is continuing to make inroads with the people of Peru, just as it did with the people of Poland last year. CFACT continues to create strong bonds of friendship with people in all parts of the world who are ready to join the fight to promote freedom and progress. We are excited as our organization becomes increasingly international in reach and scope.",0_0
"George W. Bush's economic programfocused on tax cuts and (somewhat) restrained spendinghas come under criticism from many quarters. The strangest critique, however, came even before the President took office. ""I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency,"" said Sarah Jessica Parker, actress and budding policy analyst. ""I'm worried about the kind of cuts he might make in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including people in my own family who depend on certain things from the government.""",0_0
"Protocol amending the agreement of November 16 and 18, 1993. Signed at Washington and Mexico City November 25 and 26, 2002; Entered into force August 6, 2004. With appendices.",0_0
"then get out a strategy called ""escalate and exit' inside the White House."" While the president was keenly interested in whatever progress an enhanced nato operation could attain, he was also leery of letting it drag out for years on",0_0
"According to the Wall Street Journal, a White House letter to House Speaker John Boehner inadvertently acknowledged that EPA alone is still working on new regulations that the agency itself calculates will impose $105 billion in additional regulatory burdens and compliance costs. Win or lose in November, the Administration will likely impose these and other postponed rules after the elections. We, our children and grandchildren will pay for them in countless ways.",0_0
Some GOP legislators contend U.S. not at risk for default if debt ceiling not raised:,0_0
"""A fake boycott from a place that sells fake beef.""",0_0
"on Saturday, June 18th, 2011 at 3:01 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.",0_0
"Kerry, the unnamed advocacy group spokesman, and others have let the cat out of the bag. They are saying in effect, Give us an energy bill, any energy bill,we want to snooker you with it to get cap-and-trade. Wellconferenceany energybill passed by the Senate with Waxman-Markey in a lame duck session, and neither you nor the American people will be able to stop us. Hah!",0_0
"The company was working with the Environment Agency and South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service ""to minimise the risk of this happening again"", he added .",0_0
"More importantly,the endangerment finding prerequisite to establishing GHG emissions standards for new motor vehicleswould be precedential for similar endangerment findings under other CAA provisions,includingCAA Sec. 108, the cornerstone of the NAAQS program.",0_0
"""Georgia's Valdosta State University has updated its network with software that can pinpoint students who use P2P software. The university is committed to stop file-sharing on its network even if that results in prison sentences for students. Offenders will be disciplined by the school and then handed over to the police, the university has announced.""",0_0
Originally published at http://www.drroyspencer.com/,0_0
"Leaving no doubt which side of the fence those friends and allies stood on, the letter said, ""On June 20, in Washington, DC, we will announce a campaign that will specifically focus on communicating to those Americans across the country that supported your election in 2012.""",0_0
"Thankfully for West Virginia, clean coal technology is at the heart of these solutions. And I don't intend to allow deliberate misinformation to undermine our push for major national investments in the clean coal research and facilities that can help solve this problem.",0_0
"after the election, or starting at noon on Jan. 20? Smart presidents who squeeze",0_0
"(Margaret Wente har helt rtt i detta. Stormedia var som vanligt helt ovetande om hur utsikterna infr Kpenhamn sg ut realpolitiskt sett. Och inte ville de veta ngot heller. Istllet eldades hysterin infr Kpenhamn upp till euforiska niver: Nu skulle ntligen den absolut ndvndiga globala och bindande verenskommelsen att minska koldioxidutslppen ske! Alla var optimistiska, fick vi hra frn TV, radio och storstadstidningarna. I sjlva verket var utgngen relativt uppenbar redan flera mnader fre mtet. Den hr artikeln fick jag slutligen in i Barometern efter att flera ointresserade och oinitierade debattredaktrer i SvD och DN gjort tummen ned. Glasbubbla ngon?)",0_0
"The ACESA provisions on technology forcing should be reviewed in light of the findings of a recent conference on climate and technology conducted at Stanford University. Among these findings attendees agreed: ""The single greatest impediment to an R&D; program that is directed at achieving a commercial objective is that it will be distorted to deliver subsidies to favored firms, industries, and other organized interests. The best institutional protections for minimizing these distortions are multi-year appropriations, agency independence in making grants, use of peer review with clear criteria for project selection, and payments based on progress and outputs rather than cost recovery.""",0_0
"Now that Congress has passed thanks to the peeling off of a bare minimum of Senate Republicans and President Obama has signed a financial regulatory bill with a massive scope and untold costs, and a bill extending unemployment benefits without paying for them, he and the Democratic leadership have two more big items to rush through before Congress's August recess. They are a bill that will ostensibly help small business and the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan. While Congress is claiming it wants to help small business, confirming Kagan could mean great harm to business owners crippled by costly regulation. Based on her writings and her arguments as Obama's solicitor general (which is all we have to go on, since she has never served on the bench), not only is Kagan likely to rule against constitutional challenges to Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and other onerous laws, but she is also likely to do what she can to make it nearly impossible for smaller ""regulated firms,"" as she calls them, to have their day in court in the first place.",0_0
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"Standing with Giants: A Collection of Public Health Essays in Memory of Dr. Beth Whelan, A. Alan Moghissi and Gilbert Ross, eds., American Council on Science and Health, 2016, 212 pages, ISBN-10: 0991005562, ISBN-13: 978-0991005567; $10.95 on Amazon.com.",0_0
"On campuses, free expression is limited to boxing-ring-sized free speech zones. Conservative speakers are banned from university events, or shouted down if they do appear. The Universities of Michigan and Maryland tried to ban American Sniper because a couple hundred students out of 27,000 objected. Oberlin and Georgetown students railed that Christina Hoff Sommers mere presence required trigger warnings, caused them distress and discomfort, and constituted violence against women.",0_0
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"The first overarching question, of course, is what is meant by the global average surface temperature?? The 2005 National Research Council Report (see page 19 and page 21 ) provides a definition as",0_0
"The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), of which Dr Rajendra Pachauri is the director-general, has given corporate awards to companies such as Pepsi and Honda, as well as Indian businesses.",0_0
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"30 EPA, New Source Review: Report to the President, p. 26.",0_0
"One of the members of that attorney general cabal, Claude E. Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands, has subpoenaed the non-profit Competitive Enterprise Institute for a stunningly wide array of documents from 1997 to 2007 related to policy work on climate change.",0_0
"Piltz talks about what he believes ExxonMobiil should do, and he's got every right to do so. But there is a big difference in his doing so and two U.S. Senators doing the same: He has no power to subpoena company executives into hearings or impose taxes or regulations. Yes, the Senators have free speech rights to say whatever they want, but there is a difference between their personal opinions and those they convey on behalf of their office.",0_0
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The Food and Drug Administrations seeks input about online advertising of drugs and other medical products.,0_0
"Obamacare is collapsing, with average premiums set to increase by 25 percent in 2017 and health insurers jumping ship. Obamacare's defenders call for harsher tax penalties against the uninsured and more subsidies for those who use the government's insurance exchange. But if our goal is to help people obtain high-quality and affordable health care, then saving Obamacare shouldn't be the goal. We need to expand exemptions from fines and encourage people to leave a flawed system. READ MORE",0_0
"The administration has been criticized by many for not engaging in Clintonian triangulation, in not bending to the political winds to pass something incremental and obtainable. Speaker Pelosi's decision to push her caucus to a floor vote on cap-and-trade legislation that was unlikely to pass the Senate might cost dozens of Democrats their seats. The decision to push the health-care bill after Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election to the Senate has helped to define the entire 2010 campaign. Had they not done these things, many moderate progressives argue, Democrats could have staved off the massive defeat they are now certain to suffer.",0_0
Our schools need to end the indoctrination and ensure that students are presented with and taught to ponder and debate all sides of important and complex questions. Parents need to make sure they do so.,0_0
Kevin A. Hassett is a senior fellow and the director of economic policy studies at AEI. Aparna Mathur is a resident scholar at AEI. Gilbert E. Metcalf is a professor of Economics at Tufts University.,0_0
"Leah Vukmir, President, Parents Raising Education Standards in Schools (PRESS)",0_0
"The conference president, Mexican Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa, told the delegations Sunday she had assigned teams of two ministers, one each from a wealthy and developing country, to focus on specific issues and give political guidance to the negotiators.",0_0
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"We now know that the progressives, despite their dissatisfaction with many elements of President Obama's agenda, largely won those fights. The result is that large segments of the American electorate feel that the administration and Democrats in Congress don't understand and don't care to understand their aspirations and fears. This sentiment is most keenly and strongly felt among conservative Republicans, but it is sharedfor different reasonsby many nonconservatives. This sentiment is particularly strong among the white working class and among Catholics.",0_0
"Now that the dust has settled on the 2014 midterms, we can get a sense of how things will change in Washington under a Republican controlled Senateand energy will be front and center.",0_0
"That same year, the American Lung Association launches the anti-coal ""Fighting for Air"" platform, using donations from Chesapeake Energy.",0_0
"Smaller tar sands-related contributions to Tides came from the Oak Foundation, endowed by Duty Free Shoppers tycoon Alan Parker;the New York Community Trust; and the Schmidt Family Foundation, whose millions come from Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy.",0_0
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"""King?s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, KY is suing a local union that represents more than 600 of its employees, claiming it is trying to harass the hospital?s CEO. The complaint against Service Employees International Union District 1199 was filed on Dec. 29, the day before the union voted to reject KDMC?s latest contract offer. The complaint alleges the union violated federal statutes by causing hundreds of automated telephone calls to be made to KDMC, but the union claimed it was in full compliance with the law.""",0_0
"From bringing in top-notch speakers and conducting student polls, to having students testify at local and regional hearings, and making their presence felt at international UN conferences, Harrelson trumpeted Collegians' efforts and exhorted the audience to continue reaching out to youth and to work with CFACT's local chapters wherever possible.",0_0
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"9 Hew Strachan, ""The Lost Meaning of Strategy,"" Survival (Autumn 2005); Julian Lindley-French, ""The Revolution in Security Affairs: Hard and Soft Security Dynamics in the 21st century,"" European Security 13 (2004); Mary Kaldor, ""Human Security: A New Strategic Narrative for Europe,"" International Affairs 83:2 (2007).",0_0
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"So, it appears that Guadalajara may represent the abandonment of the SPP nominally, but work toward its objectives will continue through the annual leaders meetings where Obama, Harper and Calderon will task cabinet officials to meet to work on specific shared priorities; and cabinet ministers will in turn assign personnel to work out differences so that a report can be made to the leaders on progress in time for their next meeting or phone call.",0_0
"""He was key in the transformation of the party into a destructive and delegitimizing force in American politics """,0_0
"A few days ago, during a private dinner, Giuliani said that Obama's speeches do not display the same kind of love for America that the Americans had known from the previous presidents both Republican and Democratic ones.",0_0
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"Post-election, the Keystone pipelinewhich the State Department has projected would create more than 40,000 jobshas suddenly leapt to the front of the lame-duck-legislation line. Months ago, Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and John Hoeven (R-ND), along with 54 others (including 11 Democrats), reintroduced legislation to authorize building the Keystone pipelinebut Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has blocked the popular bill by repeatedly denying requests to take up the legislation. The House has already approved eight previous Keystone bills and quickly passed an identical bill sponsored by Landrieu's election opponent Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA).",0_0
"President Obama declared in May that ""As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against chronic hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others."" He saluted U.S. global food programs but noted with characteristic understatement that ""when tens of thousands of children die from the agony of starvation, as in Somalia, that sends us a message we've still got a lot of work to do. It's unacceptable. It's an outrage. It's an affront to who we are.""",0_0
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"The groups behind most of the resolutions are the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an association of 275 religious institutional investors, and the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, a coalition of 70 groups that includes ""environmental activists and investors, managers and analysts representing $300 billion in assets.""",0_0
"It is hard for Jacksonians to mobilize politically. Neither party really embraces a Jacksonian agenda. Combining a suspicion of Wall Street, a hatred of the cultural left, a love of middle class entitlement programs, and a fear of free trade, Jacksonian America has problems with both Republican and Democratic agendas. Any Jacksonian political movement will start as a party insurgency, and the Jacksonians will on the whole be less well funded, less experienced and less institutionally powerful than their party opponents. Jacksonians are neither liberal nor conservative in the ways that political elites use those terms; they are radically egalitarian, radically pro-middle class, radically patriotic, radically pro-Social Security. They are not, under normal circumstances, joiners in politics; they are individualists who organize in response to threats, and their individualism goes to their stands on what outsiders sometimes think are the social issues that unite them.",0_0
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"Monday lunchtime next week join us at Parliament House in WA, meet Matt and Janet Thompson , Peter Spencer (the 52 day hunger-striker who has won the right to challenge in the High Court), and Maxwell Szulc (a WA farmer who, I understand, cleared fire breaks on his own land, and was jailed for it. Incarcerated! He is being released this Monday morning , which is why the protest is Monday).",0_0
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"When presidential candidate Ronald Reagan remarked that ""fascism was really the basis of the New Deal,"" liberals and the media hooted; the Washington Post huffed that ""several historians of the New Deal period questioned by the Washington Post said they had no idea what Reagan was referring to."" Thanks to Shlaes's book, journalists in the future will not be able to plead such ignorance: She notes that FDR's first attempt at centralized economic planning, the National Recovery Administration (NRA), owed its inspiration in part to Mussolini's Italian model. The NRA's ineffectuality could be demonstrated in a number of theoretical or technical ways, but Shlaes captures the futility of the enterprise in two magnificent sentences: ""In a period of a year, 10,000 pages of law had been created , a figure that one had to compare with the mere 2,735 pages that constituted federal statute law. In twelve months, the NRA had generated more paper than the entire legislative output of the federal government since 1789.""",0_0
"As I have noted here before, the main contours of the health care plans on the table resemble both the moderate Republican alternative to the Clinton plan proposed by the late Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.) and the Massachusetts plan championed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney (R), which was actually enacted into law. We know that the Massachusetts plan had issues as it was rolled out, including higher-than-expected costs and serious strains on primary care physicians as the newly insured came into the system and put new demands on them. It required major adjustments on the way.",0_0
"18 See quotations and sources cited by Dana Joel Gattuso, ""Why the New Source Review Program Needs Reform: A Primer on NSR,"" Backgrounder #1518 (Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation), February 21, 2002, pp. 1-2.",0_0
"The workers compensation system, which is generally run state by state, has evolved as a win-win for workers and employers. Workers are guaranteed some minimum level of medical treatment and disability pay for their on-the-job injuries, and employers avoid the possibility of lawsuits for work-related injuries. As summarized in this Insurnace Information Institute article:",0_0
"For more news and analysis, updated throughout the day, visit CEI's blog, OpenMarket.org.",0_0
"Coming from a court in a nation that purports to adhere to the rule of law and the constitutional separation of powers, these declarations are astonishing. The Dutch court takes upon itself the clearly legislative task of determining what costs are acceptable to the Dutch people and their government. Resources expended on carbon emission reduction are resources not available for other public purposes. Choosing among the alternatives is not a judicial function. And the court's declaration that rights and freedoms are contingent on social context and changes in society as monitored by the judiciary is a transparent abandonment of the rule of law.",0_0
"""It turns out Google's Street View cars found out more about Internet users than previously acknowledged. Last Friday, the company said the cars, which roam the world taking pictures for its location-based applications, scarfed up e-mail addresses, URLs and passwords from residential Wi-Fi networks they passed by in dozens of countries.""",0_0
"Centene, another Obama inaugural donor, is a health care company described by investors as ""a pure-play Medicare and Medicaid company."" Some parts of Obamacare boost Medicare and Medicaid spending while other parts cut these programs. As Obama administration officials craft the details of the law, Centene's profits hang in the balance.",0_0
That changed after World War II. Strong presidential candidates appeared from different parts of the Democratic coalition. Each rose above stereotype. John Kennedy was an Irish Catholic with the demeanor of an English lord. Lyndon B. Johnson was a Texan who passed civil rights bills. Hubert Humphrey was an Upper Midwest progressive with a cheerful temperament.,0_0
"Blog feature: For more news and analysis, updated throughout the day, visit CEI's blog, Open Market.",0_0
"With this sort of history as a guide, what business does Congress have leading us into a questionably-illuminated future?",0_0
"Happily, at least C.J. Pearson the 12-year-old boy from the video above (which has 300,000+ views after 2 days) has endorsed Rudy Giuliani. Pearson could very well be ready to replace Barack Obama tomorrow. The White House has a different idea about the political qualities of the future U.S. presidents, however. So Obama chose a different black kid as the ""kid president"", a sycophantic boy who is proud of being able to sit in a chair .",0_0
"WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 1998 ""Every high school civics student knows that two-thirds of the Senate must approve a treaty before it becomes law, yet the Clinton Administration is acting and encouraging others to act as if the non-ratified Kyoto Protocol were already a controlling legal authority. Senator Ashcroft's legislation will help expose and stop such chicanery,"" said Marlo Lewis, Jr., Vice President for Policy and Coalitions at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI).",0_0
"Available from the Hoover Press is To America's Health: A Proposal to Reform the Food and Drug Administration, edited by Henry I. Miller. To order, call 800.935.2882 or visit www.hooverpress.org.",0_0
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"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Special Projects Counsel Hans Bader on how the government is rewarding so-called ""liar loans"":",0_0
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"CEI Expert Available to Comment: Former Journalism Fellow Tim Carney on how the ""Ex-Im"" bank subsidizes U.S. manufacturers:",0_0
"The National Center for Policy Analysis is holding a congressional briefing on Earth Day, April 22, on ""Global Warming: What do We Really Know vs. What We are Told."" Speakers include David Legates of the University of Delaware, Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia and the Cato Institute, and Alexandra Liddy Bourne of the American Legislative Exchange Council. The event will be held from 10 to 11:30 AM in Room 406 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. To RSVP or for more information, please call (202) 628-6671 or e-mail mmoore@ncpa.org.",0_0
"Friends of the Earth is correct, though. The email states: ""Now, with both the Republican Senate and the House salivating and ready to sink their teeth into our most basic environmental laws, the President's environmental legacy is truly at stake."" The Republicans are likely ""salivating""though not specifically about ""basic environmental laws.""",0_0
"""Hannan recently agreed to answer 10 questions about his new book and other issues of interest from The Daily Caller. """,0_0
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"He hates their instincts at home, too. It is Jacksonians who, as I wrote in Special Providence back in 2001, see the Second Amendment as the foundation of and security for American freedom. It is Jacksonians who most resent illegal immigration, don't want to subsidize the urban poor, support aggressive policing and long prison sentences for violent offenders, and who are the slowest to ""evolve"" on issues like gay marriage and transgender rights.",0_0
"I leave it to military experts to advise the president how to do that: they know the ways and he has the means, plus John McCain will be in the chairman's seat at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to back him up.",0_0
Two Colorado Democrats who provided crucial support for a package of state gun laws were voted out of office on Tuesday in special elections,0_0
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute's 2006 Annual Dinner and Reception paid homage to Hollywood. The evening, themed ""A Night at the Movies,"" featured P.J. O'Rourke, one of the nation's foremost political satirists, as Keynote Speaker. Also appearing that night were ABC News Correspondent John Stossel, who was presented the 2006 Julian L. Simon Memorial Award; National Review Editor Rich Lowry, who acted as master of ceremonies; and Bloomberg columnist Amity Shlaes, who delivered the Warren T. Brookes Testimony. In addition, CEI experts acted as the cast for a series of famous movie scene parody shorts. P.J. O'Rourke's dinner remarks are excerpted in this issue of CEI Planet.",0_0
"For further comment on such issues and what the Bush administration and Congress can do in the next four years to reform regulatory policy and help realize the vision of a free, prosperous and confident future that offers new choices un constrained by old rules, contact analysts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute today and this evening.",0_0
"As he deployed 1199's resources to shore up New York's medical and political establishments, Rivera also burnished his progressive bona fides, championing tenants' rights, gay marriage, universal health care, and the withdrawal of the U.S. Navy from the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. In the modern incarnation of 1199, forged in Rivera's image, the line between politics and ideology becomes increasingly blurry, as does the distinction between power as a means and as an end in itself.",0_0
"Another vital cog in the 1199 machine is the Working Families Party (WFP). Founded in 1998 by 1199 and several other unions and activist networks, the WFP is a creature of New York's ""fusion"" electoral system, through which minor parties can cross-endorse major-party candidates.",0_0
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"The NSR program is by no means the primary regulatory tool to address air pollution from existing sources. The Clean Air Act provides for several other public health-driven and visibility-related control efforts: for example, the National Ambient Air Quality Standards Program implemented through enforceable State Implementation Plans, the NOx SIP Call, the Acid Rain Program, the Regional Haze Program, etc. ... he national cap on SO2 emissions established under the Acid Rain Program applies to all existing electricity generating units, without regard to the date of construction or whether a given source has been modified.6",0_0
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"The Heartland Institute is a 27-year-old national nonprofit organization with offices in Chicago and Washington, DC. Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. For more information, visit our Web site at http://www.heartland.org or call 312/377-4000.",0_0
"2 David Yost, NATO Transformed: the Alliance's New Roles in International Security, 1999.",0_0
"""Missouri's Democratic attorney general broke with his party on Monday and urged a federal judge to invalidate the central provision of the new health care law.""",0_0
"12 Tech Environmental, Inc., ""Progress in Reducing National Air Pollutant Emissions, 1970-2015,"" June 1999, report produced for the Foundation for Clean Air Progress, Washington, DC, p. 3.",0_0
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"Having once been on either SEIU's or 1199's payroll appears to be almost a prerequisite for working in the de Blasio administration. Many members of the mayor's inner circle, including de Blasio himself, were once employed by SEIU or 1199. First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris was an 1199 consultant, and de Blasio's former chief of staff, Laura Santucci, was an 1199 political aide who went on to work for the Democratic National Committee. Emma Wolfe, de Blasio's deputy campaign manager and now director of intergovernmental affairs for New York City, has worked for 1199 and the Working Families Party.",0_0
"The Alliance recently brought on other veterans of national political campaigns: Steve Hildebrand, the Obama campaigns deputy national campaign director, is working as a consultant for the project. Steve Bouchard, a veteran of the 2004 and 2008 Democratic presidential campaigns, is campaign manager for the Alliance. Brian Rogers, spokesperson for John McCains presidential campaign last year, has come on board as research director.",0_0
"Our next move was to rally support and inform the public. On May 18, CEI ran a full page advertisement in The New York Times. The ad was an open letter signed by 43 organizations and individuals who agree that this abuse of power by state attorneys general is unlawful and that we must protect the First Amendment rights of all Americans.",0_0
"The Heartland Institute has joined other nonprofit groups this July to bring our country together to emphasize what makes America fundamentally good and what distinguishes it from other nations. The goal of this new #OurAmerica coalition is to reenergize and provide hope for mainstream Americans who are demoralized by the erosion of American liberty and the constant assault on our core principles. Visit Heartland's web page dedicated to this project, where you'll find memes, videos, resources, and more! To celebrate American exceptionalism, use the hashtag #OurAmerica on your social media accounts to help express your pride and hope for the country's future. LEARN MORE",0_0
"The New Coalition at a GlanceMissionTo develop and promote a conservative multicultural perspective on economic and social policies.DirectorLee H. WalkerEmailwalker@heartland.orgProgramsmonthly seminarsspeakers bureauquarterly newsletter, Coalition Issues and ViewsCrain's Chicago Business columnoccasional studies and research papersMemberships$19 - Coalition member$39 - combined Coalition and Heartland memberTo Join or Contributemake checks payable to The Heartland Institute, with ""New Coalition"" on the memo lineWebhttp://www.newcoalition.orgAddress19 South LaSalle Street #903Chicago, Illinois 60603Phone and Fax312.377.4000312.377.5000THE NEW COALITION""Though you'd never know it by the coverage in today's media, or by the voting patterns of most black Americans today, black America's original voice was conservative,"" notes Lee H. Walker, who directs The New Coalition at The Heartland Institute. Frederick Douglass championed universal self-reliance and personal responsibility, Walker points out, and Booker T. Washington wrote, ""I have learned that success is to be measured, not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed.""In DemandWalker, a leading mainstream conservative black spokesman, is in high demand as a speaker who effectively and persuasively brings conservative and libertarian ideas to nonwhite audiences.On November 15 and 16, Walker addressed two town hall meetings on ""reparations"" for black Americans, hosted by the westside and southside locations of the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago. Walker, who puts himself in the ""undecided"" column on this controversial issue, expressed his concern the issue will ""preoccupy too many of the best and brightest people of all races over an extended period of time,"" preventing them from focusing on more pressing issues such as education, black-on-black crime, and unemployment.Walker also spoke on behalf of maintaining the Rosenwald Apartments as a historic site on the National Register. The complex--a five-story walkup built in 1929 as the first middle-class housing project for blacks in Chicago--was built by Julius Rosenwald, a trustee of Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee school. Rosenwald said Washington's autobiography changed his life.On January 15, Walker will be the keynote speaker at birthday festivities for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the law school at Northwestern University. On April 26, he will address the annual convention of the Libertarian Party of Indiana. He is also scheduled to speak on National Public Radio in Chicago on a call-in show focused on racial and educational issues.New AdvisorsSince The New Coalition joined forces with Heartland in October 2002, the effort has attracted the support of scores of Americans from California to Virginia. Three new members have joined The New Coalition's advisory committee:Anthony Paul Andrews Ph.D., university professor of economics at Governors State University;Clarence S. Wilson Jr., an attorney at law practicing in Chicago; andLester Blair, principal with Kenilworth Asset Management.Media CoverageThe October announcement of Walker's new partnership with The Heartland Institute attracted press attention from Alabama and Florida, with articles appearing in the October 21 and November 3 editions of the Jacksonville, Florida Advocate (weekly circ. 36,000) and the October 17 edition of the Birmingham, Alabama Times (weekly circ. 16,500). In addition, Walker's latest Crain's Chicago Business (weekly circ. 50,000) column, titled ""Playing Great Golf is Tiger's Game, Not Social Reform,"" ran on November 4.Walker has submitted op-eds to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and Chicago Defender. We haven't seen the clips yet, but will report when we do! The text of these essays can be found on The New Coalition's Web site by visiting www.heartland.org and then clicking on ""Links,"" or go directly to www.newcoalition.org.OUTREACH EFFORTSOn December 7-9, 2002, at the Council of State Governments' Annual Meeting in Richmond, Virginia., 15 elected officials became new members of Heartland's Legislative Advisory Board. Joseph Bast, Publisher Nikki Saret, and Public Affairs Director Greg Lackner represented Heartland at this year's event, attended by an estimated 900 state legislators from around the country, their legislative staff, government officials, businesses, and special guests. An evening cocktail reception cosponsored by Heartland and International Truck & Engine Corp. drew some 125 enthusiastic guests.On December 13, Bast addressed some 150 legislators--including 80 newly elected officials--during a summit session on education reform at the American Legislative Exchange Council's State and National Policy Summit held in Washington, DC. On the evening of the first day, Heartland once again cohosted a reception with International Truck & Engine Corp., this time attracting more than 100 guests. Saret staffed Heartland's exhibit throughout the event and reported strong interest in our publications.On November 14, Bast discussed free-market health care reform at the annual meeting of the Illinois Life Insurance Council in Oak Brook, Illinois. On November 20-21, Environment & Climate News Managing Editor James M. Taylor was in Houston, Texas to attend a conference organized by the American Petroleum Institute on voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. His write-up of the conference appears in the January issue of ECN.On December 4, Bast participated in a day-long series of meetings in Washington, DC on health care reform with Bush administration officials and state-based think tank leaders. The meetings were scheduled by State Policy Network. Bast also attended Grover Norquist's weekly ""Wednesday Morning Meetings"" held at the offices of Americans for Tax Reform in DC. Copies of all three of Heartland's monthly newspapers are delivered to ATR for distribution at these important networking meetings.Current Heartland donors and members may request a free copy of ""Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation"" by calling Cheryl Parker at 312/377-4000 or sending an email message to think@heartland.org. (Please put ""request for Broadband Study"" in the subject line.) The executive summary and full text of the study are also available on Heartland's Web site at www.heartland.org.NEW POLICY STUDY RELEASEDIn communities across the country, AT&T; and the Baby Bells have failed to deliver on promises they made a few years ago, at the height of the telecom bubble, to wire the entire country for broadband. Many communities think they can do the job themselves.Heartland Policy Study No. 100, ""Municipally Owned Broadband Networks: A Critical Evaluation,"" written by Heartland President Joseph Bast, warns the costs are higher and risks greater than taxpayers are being told. ""The real issue is not availability but price and who should pay it,"" writes Bast. A small number of heavy users of Internet services wants everyone else to subsidize access, even though this means spending millions of dollars building a system few people want or would voluntarily pay for.Copies of the Policy Study were mailed to local officials in Illinois known to be considering a municipal broadband system; members of the Illinois Commerce Commission and state legislators; daily newspapers in Illinois and key media outlets nationwide; members of Heartland's legislative advisory board; and donors, friends, and think-tank colleagues.Local media coverage of the study's release was extensive, with articles appearing in the Daily Herald (a northwest suburban chain with a daily circulation greater than 150,000); Northwest Herald (circ. 33,800); and three appearances in the Kane County Chronicle (circ. 14,000)--including an October 31 article that was the top page 1 story.ENVIRONMENT UPDATEJanuary 2003 issue of Environment & Climate NewsApproximately 30,000 copies of the January 2003 issue of Environment & Climate News were distributed to every state and national elected official in the U.S., environment reporters at daily newspapers, and thousands of grassroots activists across the country. The lead story on page 1 reports the November 2002 elections revealed voters are no longer swayed by the scare tactics and anti-business rhetoric of environmental advocacy groups.Feature articles by S. Fred Singer, Patrick J. Michaels, and Managing Editor James M. Taylor address new research on the declining threat of ""global warming."" Taylor describes several peer-reviewed articles suggesting temperatures are not rising as expected. Singer's report describes a new study on the role atmospheric soot particles may play in global warming, introducing a new element of uncertainty in climate models and shifting responsibility for curbing pollution to developing nations such as China and India.Another page 1 article reports the Bush administration's November 22 announcement to move ahead with reforms to the New Source Review provisions of the Clean Air Act. Research published by Heartland in July (Heartland Policy Study #99) suggested such reforms are overdue.Beginning with the January 2003 issue, Heartland will mail three consecutive issues of Environment & Climate News to members of the George C. Marshall Institute. William Waggoner, an elected official from Selma, Oregon, distributes 200 copies of Environment & Climate News every month at meetings and conferences he attends. He met Publisher Nikki Saret at the National Grange event--he's a member of the Oregon state chapter--and now plans to distribute 150 copies of Health Care News as well!Public SpeakingAs reported in the President's Letter of this Heartlander, in November Dr. Jay Lehr spoke to a large and enthusiastic audience at the annual meeting of the National Grange.On December 3, Heartland's newest research associate, Jeff Trigg, attended a meeting of the Subcommittee on Cessation of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health. This government agency, created to coordinate the anti-tobacco efforts of various federal agencies, met in Chicago to discuss successful tactics to discourage smoking. Trigg, who was given the opportunity to testify, cautioned those present about the dangers to civil and economic liberties posed by using the coercive powers of the state to prevent conduct that is not harmful to others. His testimony can be found in The Smoker's Lounge on Heartland's Web site at www.heartland.org.On December 4-5, Heartland Director and long-time advisor Jim Johnston participated in hearings in Chicago organized by the Department of Energy on proposals to improve methods for measuring carbon dioxide emissions in anticipation of creating a ""cap-and-trade"" program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Johnston reports there was considerable skepticism about the government's ability to establish and enforce rules sufficiently stable to allow businesses to invest in the tradeable credits.EDUCATION UPDATEDecember and January School Reform NewsDecember and January issues of School Reform News, Heartland's monthly newspaper for school reformers, were sent to approximately 45,000 readers, including state and national elected officials, journalists, grassroots activists, and teachers and principals at charter schools and private K-12 schools nationwide.The December 2002 issue features an exclusive interview with reformer, scholar, and educator Chester E. ""Checker"" Finn Jr. of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. According to Finn, ""the standards and accountability strategy for education reform coexists and may even be co-dependent with the freedom and competition strategy. An awful lot of people sign up for one or the other, and actually come to regard the other one as an enemy. I've come to believe that the two approaches need each other.""The December issue also reports on a school choice conference held in Colorado and addresses such topics as teaching methods in successful high-poverty schools, charter schools, history teaching, and school district size.The January issue of School Reform News offers hard numbers, comprehensive tables, and useful graphs that document in several ways the need for effective school reform in the U.S. The issue's exclusive interview is with John D. Merrifield, an economics professor at the University of Texas-San Antonio and author of The School Choice Wars. Merrifield, who worries current voucher programs are too limited in scope to act as useful models, says ""We don't need school choice as a lifeboat; we need it as a reform catalyst. ... When we talk about duplicating escape hatch programs like Milwaukee or Cleveland or Florida, we're defining too limited a role for school choice in our reform efforts.""Media CoverageHeartland Chairman Herb Walberg, who calculates it costs $181,851 to produce a high school graduate in the District of Columbia public schools, was cited in a Sunday, November 24 article in the Washington Post, reaching a circulation of 808,884 readers! In case you're wondering, it costs more to produce a graduate from the DC public school system than the average cost in any of the 50 states, though some cities are even more inefficient with their funds: Cleveland ($297,282), Milwaukee ($234,886), and Columbus, Ohio ($197,080). Walberg's report, ""Hold Schools Accountable for Cost of Finished Graduate,"" appeared in the October 2002 issue of School Reform News.Heartland's thoughts on school choice also appeared in the October 23 issue of Education Week (circ. 60,000) in an article about Illinois' tuition tax credit measure. The story quoted School Reform News Managing Editor George A. Clowes.The Fall 2002 issue of American Outlook, published by the American Enterprise Institute, quotes from a July 2001 interview of William Bennett conducted by Clowes for School Reform News.Heartland President Joseph Bast's essay, ""Why Conservatives and Libertarians Should Support School Vouchers,"" appears in the Fall 2002 issue of The Independent Review, a journal of political economy published by The Independent Institute.On November 19, Bast discussed school reform and other topics for two hours with host Ron Newman on WBIG radio, broadcast from Aurora, Illinois.HEALTH CARE UPDATEDecember and January Health Care NewsThe December issue of Health Care News, Heartland's national outreach publication for market-based health care reform, was sent to approximately 20,000 elected officials, health care reporters, grassroots activists, and allies. The issue's cover story by Joe Moser documents voter support on November 5 for free-market health care reform. Managing Editor Conrad F. Meier offers a page 1 report on the stunning defeat of Oregon's closely watched single-payer initiative, Measure 23.The December issue also looks at the Bush administration's plan to limit the ability of the makers of innovative drugs to hold off early challenges to their patents, with Meier suggesting the President may have found a middle ground while Robert Goldberg calls the President's proposal ""patently absurd.""The January 2003 issue of Health Care News will be the first of three issues to be mailed, free of charge, to more than 18,000 members of the National Association of Health Underwriters. In exchange for a half-page ad and 600-word editorial, NAHU has agreed to share its membership list with Heartland.The January issue features page 1 coverage of state efforts to protect physicians from excessive jury verdicts and related malpractice insurance costs. Other stories describe the 108th Congress's health policy agenda--expected to include malpractice reform as well as prescription drug coverage, aid to the uninsured, and broad Medicare reform--and efforts by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick to strip away patent protection for America's pharmaceutical and biotech industries.Media CoverageHeartland's work on health care attracted unprecedented media coverage in the final months of 2002. Conrad Meier's observations on the defeat of Oregon's single-payer health care initiative appeared in the Wall Street Journal (circ. 1,752,639); Atlanta, Georgia Journal-Constitution (circ. 327,213); Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer (circ. 161,604); Greensburg, Pennsylvania Sunday Tribune Review (circ. 142,23
); New Haven, Connecticut Register (circ. 128,328); Mesa, Arizona East Valley Tribune (circ. 115,000); Greensboro, North Carolina News & Record (circ. 91,458); Pueblo, Colorado Chieftain (circ. 51,205); Bloomington, Illinois Pantagraph (circ. 49,844); Scottsdale, Arizona Tribune (circ. 18,387); and the Web editions of the Spokane, Washington Spokesman-Review and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Sun News. Meier also was cited favorably in an editorial in the Reading, Pennsylvania Eagle (Wednesday circ. 15,429).The Sunday, December 1 issue of the Columbia, Missouri Sunday Tribune (circ. 18,000) carried an op-ed by Meier on former Vice President Al Gore's recent endorsement of single-payer health care. It won't work, notes Meier, because ""public-sector failure, not market failure, lies at the root of today's problems. Promising more government intervention to solve a problem caused by government is, well, pretty dumb."" Meier's commentary was also picked by the Conservative News Service and distributed nationally.Heartland President Joseph Bast's article, ""Smallpox Vaccine Controversy Grows,"" published in the November 2002 issue of Health Care News, was distributed nationally by United Press International on November 1 and cited in a November 11 editorial in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (circ. 266,590). That editorial subsequently was reprinted by the Victoria, Texas Advocate (circ. 42,285); Joliet, Illinois Herald-News (circ. 51,000); Elgin, Illinois Courier-News (circ. 33,240); Naperville, Illinois Lisle-Sun (circ. 13,000); Jasper, Alabama Daily Mountain Eagle (circ. 8,021); and Fort Morgan, Colorado Times (circ. 4,800). It also appeared on the Web sites of CNN Money and Black Enterprise Magazine.INTELLECTUAL AMMUNITIONNovember/December IAIntellectual Ammunition, published by The Heartland Institute since 1991, is the only public policy magazine with a free-market perspective delivered to every state and national elected official in the U.S. It is free to $49 Heartland members.The November/December issue includes a directory with complete contact information for more than 150 free-market think tanks and advocacy groups. It also features one-page columns written by experts on the staffs of such leading think tanks as Reason Foundation, PERC, and the Tax Foundation. The cover article, by Heartland President Joe Bast, describes how ""lax judges, poorly informed juries, and greedy lawyers have turned asbestos litigation into a giant game of chance that has little to do with either science or justice.""After 11 years of more-or-less bimonthly publication, Intellectual Ammunition will become a quarterly magazine in 2003. Although the magazine is the most popular Heartland product among state legislators, donors have been less willing to fund the multi-issue magazine than our issue-specific products. The first quarterly issue, Winter 2003, will be released in JanuaryCOMING UPHeartland Senior Fellows Jay Lehr Ph.D. and Wendell Cox are scheduled to speak at 15 events in the coming months. Use the table on this page to see if you can attend one of these events, or call Heartland Public Affairs Director Greg Lackner at 312/377-4000 to help plan additional meetings or events that take advantage of this schedule.Upcoming Senior Fellows Speaking EventsSpeakerTopicHostDatesLocationFor more informationJay LehrAgriculture & The EnvironmentLouisiana Agriculture Association Annual MeetingJanuary 15 2003Lafayette LouisianaGermaine Paige318/442-0971Jay LehrRecyclingAssociated Recyclers of WisconsinJanuary 17 2003Lake Delton WisconsinTerry Mesch715/672-5709Jay LehrAgriculture & The EnvironmentManitoba Agriculture & Food Association""Beef & Forage Week""January 20-23 2003(5 events)Winnipeg Manitoba CanadaMelinda German204/945-5402Jay LehrAgriculture & The EnvironmentAGCare CanadaFebruary 11 2003Guelph Ontario CanadaDiana MacDonald519/837-1326Wendell CoxTransportationPreserving the American DreamFebruary 24-25 2003Washington DCRandal O'Toole541/297-6798Wendell CoxSprawl & Smart GrowthNational Association of Office & Industrial PropertiesJanuary 23 2003Raleigh North CarolinaGregg Sandreuter919/460-1062Wendell CoxTransportationStrategy Institute Transit SummitMarch 25 2003Toronto Ontario CanadaDavid Laird416/944-8833Wendell CoxUrban IssuesTRB Urban Street SymposiumJuly 30 2003Anaheim CaliforniaRichard Cunard202/334-2963Merrill MatthewsHealth InsuranceNaperville Chamber of CommerceFebruary 24 2003Naperville IllinoisMike SkarrLee WalkerMartin Luther King Jr.Northwestern University School of LawJanuary 15 2003Evanston IllinoisMargaret Hope Allenm-allen@law.northwestern.eduLee WalkerMulticultural Perspectives on Libertarian IdeasLibertarian Party of IndianaApril 26 2003LaPorte IndianaBrad Klopfenstein317/920-1994Lehr will debate a leading advocate of mandatory recycling programs at the annual meeting of the Associated Recyclers of Wisconsin (AROW) on January 17. The debate takes place at Lake Delton, Wisconsin, part of the popular Wisconsin Dells tourist area.The request for Heartland to participate in this debate was prompted by an op-ed by James Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News, that noted the recent decline in big-city recycling operations and how this was an illustration of the economic pitfalls of mandatory recycling. The op-ed was printed in several newspapers around the country and came to the attention of the head of AROW, who was not pleased by Taylor's statements.Later in January, Lehr will visit Winnipeg, Canada to address a meeting of the Manitoba Agriculture & Food Association, part of a four-day whirlwind of events that includes meetings with civic leaders and local lawmakers. Only someone with the energy and enthusiasm of Jay Lehr would be up for this challenge, but he's looking forward to his visit. And all that activity will surely help keep him warm!Cox Battles Myths about ""Sprawl""Heartland Senior Fellow Wendell Cox, an expert on mass transit and so-called urban ""sprawl,"" has four speaking events booked so far for 2003. He is on the program for ""Preserving the American Dream,"" a conference for supporters of mobility and homeownership, taking place in Washington, DC on February 23-25. Heartland is a cosponsor, along with The Thoreau Institute, The Heritage Foundation, and several other organizations. Conference cosponsors promise the eventwill help you effectively oppose rail transit boondoggles, high-density urban zoning, restrictions on rural property rights, and other so-called smart-growth' policies. It may also lead to the creation of an American Dream Coalition that will promote free-market solutions to urban problems.The conference will take place at the Wyndham City Center Hotel in Washington, DC. For more information or to register, see http://www.ti.org/amdream.html.",0_0
"1.) First things first as the globe has not warmed for 10 years, we no longer use the term global warming, from now on use the term climate change.",1_4
"Now are you going to hear me start yapping that an amazing flip like this over 1-2% of the globe is a sign of global cooling. Of course not since that is pure nonsense. However arguing a cooling trend may be starting because of the cold PDO, which can be seen here with the 3 year meter temperature trend FOR THE ENTIRE GLOBE is something that should be considered.",1_2
"Not only do these charts make it clear that CO2 emissions are not the Earth 's proverbial thermostat, as claimed by the anti-CO2 scientific community, but over the last 10 years the globe has actually been cooling at a trend of -0.5 C per century.",1_2
"Further, weve seen cold in South Africa and Australia / New Zealand as well. This is NOT just a local weather event. Its a regional cooling. That means it is likely to have global implications.",1_2
"According to the measured thermometer data, the hottest decade in the US was the 1930s followed by the 1940s and 1950s. Despite a hot 2012, the current decade only ranks #4.",1_7
"Recent extreme weather cannot be blamed on global warming, because there has not been any global warming. It is as simple as that.",1_7
7] Canadian national winter temperature departure from 1948-2009 trend has been dropping for 3 years from 3.9C in 2006 to 0.3C in 2009,1_3
"To find just the opposite of what the climate alarmists predict should be occurring as a consequence of the ongoing rise in the air's CO 2 concentration must be a real blow to them. And this is not the first such blow. We reported the similar results of another Antarctic sea ice study just a few months ago ( Recent Trends in Antarctic Sea Ice Extent ), as well the finding that Antarctica has cooled slightly over this period ( Recent Trends in Antarctic Surface Temperatures ). And this is supposed to be the place where global warming is first detected? We'll buy that, which means, of course, that it just ain't happening!",1_1
"If we look at the trend of all the extremes in the satellite era, we see a reduced trend in the 1980s, an increase after the 1998 El Nio, particularly due to cold extremes, then a reduction in extremes in the last ten years.",1_7
"As this accompanying chart obviously indicates, snow extent has actually increased over the short term (see 3-year average curve); and since the beginning of the dataset, winter snows have ranged within a narrow band.",1_1
"All three show a period of higher snow fall around the 1960s and early 1970s. However snowfall in the last decade or two is clearly not unusual when compared with the earlier record up to about 1960 and there appears to be no decreasing trend since 1980. The following chart, comparing actual snowfall amounts for the 1940s with the last decade, makes it all abundantly clear.",1_1
"So Ioverlaid the current data on the 1990 IPCC graph, and it turns out that ice coverage now is similar to 1974.",1_1
"First winter snow extent has been increasing, and four of the five greatest snow extents have been since the year 2000. Does Dr. Robinson have trouble understanding his own graph?",1_1
"But it is not the temperature which is rising there, it is the sea-ice extent. And it really doesn't look consistent with the Cowtan and Way global warming trend supposedly due to alleged warming in the polar regions.",1_1
"So we find that, adding the two poles together, this year there has been much more ice at the summer solstice than the 30-year mean. Therefore, much more sunlight has been reflected than usual, and not less as is implied.",1_1
"Yesterday I wrote about sea level rise, and attempts to measure ice loss in Antarctica via satellite. And again, it is very clear that the results of scientific work are being hijacked in an attempt to push a scary message at us. The analysis of gravimeter measurements start with guesses and inferences, and the result is presented with a huge margin of error, and amounts to less than 1% of the annual ice loss Antarctica experiences every year.",1_1
"The animation below flashes between 2006 and 2015. Unless there isanother summer with strong southerly winds like in 2007, theamount of thick multi-year ice will be back to 2006 levels in a year or two, as the ice age increases.",1_1
"Nothing could be further from the truth. The ice cover in the Antarctic has recently reached a new all-(recorded)-time extent and the ice cover in the Arctic appears to be on a similar path. No wonder as the frost-free days in the Arctic, above 80 N have been fewer in the last two summers and the last winter in North America was brutally cold and long.",1_1
"And if that explanation were not confusing enough, the link at the end of the paragraph is to a 2009 New Scientist article about a paper by Turner et al that has a completely different explanation for the rise in sea ice:",1_1
"The oceans sea ice levels were 44.6% higher than the 1981-2010 average, breaking a previous record set in 2008 by 220,000 square miles.",1_1
"???In Southern Hemisphere winter months, ice extent has increased by around one percent per decade.??",1_1
"Bild reports that the vessel was on a 5-week expedition to repeat the route of Antarctic scientist Douglas Mawson of 100 years earlier. Ironically, rather than finding warming and open seas, the current expedition has wound up getting trapped by thick sea ice and blizzards that have yet to be penetrated even by modern ice breakers.",1_1
2010 average ice thickness is approximately the same as 2006 and 2007. It is higher than rotten ice 2008 and 2009.,1_1
"As Glaciergate was breaking, I believe I was the f irst to call for the Nobel Committee to revoke Al Gores and the UN IPCCs share Nobel Peace Prize , despite the fact that Nobel rules prohibit revocation of the Nobel Peace Prize. I said, Screw it, set a new precedent!",1_1
The Antarctic sea ice extent has been at or near record extent in the past few summers; the Arctic has rebounded in recent years since the low point in 2007; polar bears are thriving; the sea level is not showing acceleration and is actually dropping; cholera and malaria are failing to follow global warming predictions; Mount Kilimanjaro-melt fears are being made a mockery by gains in snow cover; global temperatures have been holding steady for a decade or more as many scientists are predicting global cooling is ahead; deaths because of extreme weather are radically declining; global tropical cyclone activity is near historic lows; the frequency of major U.S. hurricanes has declined; the oceans are missing their predicted heat content; big tornadoes have dramatically declined since the 1970s; droughts are neither historically unusual nor caused by mankind; there is no evidence we are currently having unusual weather; scandals continue to rock the climate fear movement; the Uni,1_1
"I wrote about an SPPI report on historical temperature trends in the Antarctic a few days ago. The report summarised several studies that all concluded that temperatures across most of Antarctica had been falling since the mid 20thC, with the exception of the Antarctic Peninsula.",1_1
"In the words of the authors, ""continually increasing sea ice extent over the Antarctic Southern Polar Ocean, along with the observed decreasing trends in Antarctic ice surface temperature ( Comiso, 2000 ) over the last two decades, is paradoxical in the global warming scenario resulting from increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."" Indeed, it would appear to be a major contradiction of that scenario. References",1_1
"During 2003 to 2008, the mass gain of the Antarctic ice sheet from snow accumulation exceeded the mass loss from ice discharge by 49 Gt/yr (2.5% of input), as derived from ICESat laser measurements of elevation change.",1_1
"More to the point, 2007 happened also to be the time of maximum historic sea ice in Antarctica . (There are many credible sources of this information, such as the following website maintained by the University of Illinois-Urbana: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.anom.south.jpg ). Why, I ask, has Mr. Gore not chosen to mention the record growth of sea ice around Antarctica? If the record melting in the Arctic is significant, then the record sea ice growth around Antarctica is, too, I say. If one is insignificant, then the other one is, too.",1_1
"The models roughly describe the shrinking extent of Arctic sea ice observed over the past two decades, but they fail to describe the comparable growth of Antarctic sea ice, which is now at a record high.",1_1
"A paper published today in Earth & Planetary Science Letters evaluates snow and ice-mass changes in Antarctica using both satellite altimetry and gravimetry between 2003-2010. The data shows most areas of the ice sheet are stable to increasing in ice mass, including the East Antarctic ice sheet, which alone contains over 80% of the total ice mass of Antarctica. The Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in West Antarctica, which overlie geothermal heat sources are found to be losing ice, but represent relatively small regions of the ice sheet. The entire Dronning Maud Land north coast of Antarctica was found to have increasing snow accumulation.",1_1
"According to this sitrep report for one of the rescue vessels, the Aurora Australis the Akademik Shokalskiy is trapped in sea ice in the Commonwealth Bay region of Antarctica.",1_1
"Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australias Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m.",1_1
"So much sea ice in Antarctica that a research vessel gets stuck, in summer!",1_1
"By Sept. 22, 2014, sea ice extent reached its highest level on record 7.76 square miles. Antarctica is now in its melt season, but even so, sea ice levels were very high for late December and early January.",1_1
"That is truly amazing, considering that the center of the ice sheet didnt make it above freezing at any time this summer, and that the Petermann Glacier has grown a kilometer since alarmists got hysterical about it in 2010.",1_1
"Greenland isnt melting rapidly after all. We keep hearing that melting there has been accelerating, and thatif it melted, sea levels would rise a catastrophic 7 meters.",1_1
"The thickest ice is over the deepest part of a bedrock bowl 1000-2500 meters deep, e.g. at the NEEM site. It is not going anywhere anytime soon. That bowl interior is where the Greenland Sheet has been accumulating even as the edges sluff/melt. Creep decline becomes increasingly self-limited by underlying geology.",1_1
"The melt season was very short, and ended very early. Greenlands surface gained 200 billion tons of ice.",1_1
The rebound from 2012s record low comes six years after the BBC reported that global warming would leave the Arctic ice-free in summer by 2013.,1_1
"Arctic ice continues to grow at a very fast rate, despite the fact that 2010 is the hottest year on record and the Arctic is the fastest warming place on earth .",1_1
"Some temperature or ice differences are positive, some of them are negative, some of them are greater or smaller than other temperature or ice differences, there are lots of data. But what is important is that there's no evidence that something ""stunning"" is going on. There has clearly been some quasi-periodic behavior as well as noise in the Arctic sea ice evolution over the recent million of years and what we've observed in the recent 34 years is quite certainly ""rather representative"" of the behavior that has existed for a much longer time.",1_1
"???Well, 2013 is almost over,?? Newman points out. ???And contrary to the alarmist predictions by Gore and what critics refer to as his doomsday cult, the latest satellite data show that Arctic ice cover has actually expanded 50 percent over 2012 levels. In fact, during October, sea-ice levels grew at the fastest pace since records began in 1979.??",1_1
"There are claims coming from some communities that the Arctic sea ice is recovering, is getting thicker again, Mark Serreze, director of the Colorado-based centre, told Postmedia News on Wednesday.",1_1
"For instance, you could point out that data collected by The IARC-JAXA Information System clearly demonstrates that contrary to dire predictions of a complete melt, Arctic sea ice concentrations are now rising as they normally do. But that leaves unanswered the one question no one but these musician-scientists have the courage to ask:",1_1
The big green machine has finally successfully lobbied enough FUDto get the thriving polar bear listed as athreatened species. Never mind the fact that the arctic sea ice has melted before in the last 100 years. See the news release from the Department of the Interior here:,1_1
"Despite all of the headlines recently about record low Arctic ice, sea ice extent has actually been regrowing for the last two weeks, and is nearly back to where it was on 22nd February.",1_1
"In August 2007, the East Siberian Sea ice edge was shrinking very rapidly. This year it is expanding.",1_1
"While Arctic sea ice remains below levels of the last decade, it has recovered about 60% of its mass this year, according to a report in the Daily Mail .",1_1
"???About 90% of the increase is due to growth of multiyear ice which survives through more than one summer without melting with only 10% growth of first year ice. Thick, multiyear ice indicates healthy Arctic sea-ice cover.",1_1
Arctic sea ice reaches near-average extent in April Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis,1_1
"Arctic sea ice extent remains the highest since 2005, with only a few weeks left to the melt season.",1_1
"According to US Park Service documents, the Exit Glacier melt rate has dropped in half over the last 125 years.",1_1
"Both the Hotlum and Wintun Glaciers have nearly doubled in size since 1950, says this article on Wikipedia. The Bolam Glacier has increased by half, while the Whitney and Konwakiton Glaciers have grown by a third.",1_1
Average global atmospheric and oceanic temperatures will drop significantly beginning between 2015 and 2016 and will continue with only temporary reversals until they stabilize during a long cold temperature base lasting most of the 2030s and 2040s.,1_2
"First we learned that the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is actually helping us stave off the next inevitable ice age by a few years . Yes, you read that right: the runaway global warming scenario is now off the table; a new ice age is coming for sure , and whatever human warming effects there may be will only make our descent into the deep freeze a little more comfy.",1_2
"Latif made his cooling projections in 2008, and so are not that old (he predicted warm-winters backin 2000). And who can say that the cold winters arent related to his projections of cooling? Latifs projections look to be true, and likely will be truefor the new, current decade.",1_2
"Neither Professor Steffen nor any other scientist can state with certainty whether global temperature in ten years time will be warmer or cooler than today. But given the currently quiet sun, and acknowledging the importance of multi-decadal climatic oscillations such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, many scientists currently hypothesize that cooling is more likely than warming over the next two decades.",1_2
"Among his comments from many years of research on solar climate forcing include: Contrary to the IPCCs speculation about man made warming as high as 5.8(degrees)C within the next hundred years, a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around 2030 is to be expected.",1_2
German Scientists Show Climate Driven By Natural Cycles Global Temperature To Drop To 1870 Levels By 2100!,1_2
"Many climatologists and astrophysicists believe recent sun spot, Pacific Ocean and global temperature trends suggest that our planet may have entered a cool phase that could last for 25 years. If that is the case, the additional carbon dioxide being emitted by China, India and other developing countries could bring a major additional benefit: helping to protect wildlife habitats, enhance oceanic biota and preserve crop yields under sub-optimal climatic conditions.",1_2
"Through influence the temperature will decrease until 2100 to a value like the one of the last Little Ice Age 1870, the scientists wrote.",1_2
"What I mean by the previous sentence is that if the solar activity drops to zero or near zero, e.g. for two decades, the sea level rise will also be zero or slightly negative, indicating a modest global cooling - regardless of the origin of the slow, currently warming underlying trend.",1_2
"In March, this newspaper further revealed that temperatures are about to drop below the level that the models forecast with 90 per cent certainty.",1_2
"According to geophysicist Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera at the University of Mexico, in about 5 years the Earth will enter a Little Ice Age which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.",1_2
"This is right on target with forecasts made by Bill Gray years ago, since you are close to where Dr Gray is, why don??t you ask him, My forecast stands, made 4 years ago, that the cooling would start ( it has as you can see on the observed objective data) and by 2030 we are back to where we were in the late 1970s WHEN THE PACIFIC WAS ENDING ITS COLD CYCLE. Look for yourself at the PDO values below:",1_2
"A little bit of cooling in the First World War time, warmed again to 1940, then it cooled to 1976, then it warmed up to the great El Nino of 1998, then it was static for a while and its been cooling since 2003.",1_2
"During the time from about 1350-1850 a Little Ice Age was experienced and is best documented in Europe. This coincided with a period of very low sunspot activity, frigid temperatures and crop failures. NASA reports that such solar patterns are repeating themselves. Most solar scientists predict continued global cooling, not warming.",1_2
"There are a number of reasons the IPCChas avoided any discussion of the possibility the current hiatus could last for at 3 decades. First, that would mean their projections of future global warming are useless. (More on this later.)",1_2
"US solar scientists have announced years ago that the sun appears to be headed into a lengthly spell of low activity , which means that the Earth is far from facing a Global Warming catastrophe and actually headed into a Little Ice Age.",1_2
"While some scientists say the cold is due to global warming, one scientist at thePulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg sees it completely differently: He sees the next ice age approaching soon!",1_2
"As I warn in Not by Fire but by Ice , I think we could see the greatest floods in 11,500 years as we head into the coming ice age. It has nothing to do with global warming; it has to do with the ice-age cycle.",1_2
"Last year, experts told us that man-made CO2 madeMidwesternMarch weather warm. They also tell us that the past year has seen a record increase in CO2. This explains the fifty degree drop in temperatures since last year.",1_3
"While many Americans welcomed a balmy-like February winter, this minor regional warming in some parts of the U.S. was overwhelmed by an otherwise large global cooling. Last time February global temperatures were colder than February 2012 was in 1994 - 18 years prior.",1_3
"The white storm is ???unprecedented for the past 50 years, with two metres (almost seven feet) of snow falling since Friday??, said an official in Mazandaran province, on the Caspian Sea.",1_3
"We are experiencing near record cold, and unprecedented wet conditions in Fort Collins. Yesterday only reached 66 degrees the coldest July 6 since 1904. July 6 temperatures peaked in the 1980s, and have been generally declining ever since.",1_3
"The first 5 months of this year were also too cold, the Belgian Met Office points out. Looking at average temperatures going back to 1833, the past five months were quite exceptional.",1_3
"While we had a new record low in 2012 for the summer minimum, the 2013 rebound made Gore??s predictions a certain failure.",1_3
"YLE News This month has also been particularly cool, especially in central and northern Finland. Temperatures on average reach over 20 degrees Celsius in July throughout the country. Meteorologists say July hasn't been this cool since 1993 , and hasn't been this rainy since the years 2004 and 2007.",1_3
"Brillianttheory, except that Illinois summers are getting cooler, and July 2009 was the coldest July on record in Illinois.",1_3
"The UN beginstheir meeting tomorrow in New York tostopglobal warming, with temperatures forecast to be26 degrees cooler than they were on the same date in 1895, 95 degrees vs. a forecast 69 for tomorrow.",1_3
"The 5-Year average has dropped to 8.9C, a level commonly seen in the 1940s and 50s. Although the cold Spring has been due in large part to the exceptionally cold weather in March, which was the coldest since 1892, both April and May have also been much colder than normal.",1_3
Scientists in Greenland are getting buried under the ice and snow at -20C during summer.,1_3
"This past winter saw record cold in the Arctic (notable because greenhouse theory predicts ""global"" warming will occur primarily in that region), heavy snowfall and deadly avalanches in the Alps, and record cold temperatures in the United States including an April snow fall in North Carolina.",1_3
It's bitterly cold. Horrifically cold! So what does this tell us about global warming?,1_3
"In case you were wondering why alarmists arent talking about Australia any more. Temperatures are running well below normal, with lots of snow in the mountains.",1_3
"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
AT GALENA?? THIS JANUARY WILL BE THE COLDEST ON RECORD. THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE OF -33.5 DEGREES THROUGH YESTERDAY WILL EASILY ENSURE THAT THIS JANUARY SURPASS THE -31.4 DEGREES THAT WAS OBSERVED IN 1971. WEATHER RECORDS AT GALENA DATE BACK TO 1942.,1_3
"The prairie provinces are in a deep freeze, with temperatures dipping to under minus 30 degrees Celsius , and even British Columbia is suffering with unusually cold weather .",1_3
Last night fell over 1 foot (30 cm) of snow in Gospic so that the total depth is almost 2.5 feet (75 cm),1_3
"The mercury also dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius in one town, making it the coldest June Sweden recording in 20 years. The Local adds:",1_3
"The only colder May on record was in 1957, when the average low was minus 2.6 degrees.",1_3
"Major roads in Beijing and Tianjin, as well as nearby provinces Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, were forced to close due to the heavy snow.",1_3
"Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate The Register Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday - the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922. The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for the last time, in a marathon six hour session.",1_3
"Rain on Wednesday brought 20 millimetres to Uluru and kept the temperature below 13 degrees all day, making it the coldest September day on record. Its more than four degrees colder than the previous record, set a little over a week ago.",1_3
TEMPERATURES AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE FREEZING WILL LIMIT ACCUMULATIONS ON ROADWAYS OVER MOUNTAIN PASSES?? HOWEVER HEAVY ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE AT ELEVATIONS ABOVE 7000 FEET.,1_3
"Stephen McIntyre, a Canadian mathematician who frequently writes articles on climate, stated recently that ???satellite data shows only half the amounts of predicted global warming in the past three decades.??",1_4
Mann says there is evidence that humans are warming the planet. There cant be. For 200 months there has been no warming at all. Get over it. Get a life.,1_4
This is exactly what has happened to atmospherically biased climate scientists who have for years used SST maps to prove that increases in atmospheric temperatures are heating the ocean. With the admission that the atmosphere is not warming it is no longer a believable explanation.,1_4
"This fact has already been scientifically assessed because since 1940, the average temperature of the northern hemisphere has diminished by approximately 0,4C, probably because of a decrease in atmospheric transparency due to air pollution.",1_4
"The trend of global temperature since 2001 has been cooling at a rate of -4.0C (-7F) per century. Computer models had predicted a 1F rise in temperature during this same periodthat did not happen, showing that the computer models are invalid.",1_4
"Experts are talking about heatwaves and telling us that the US summers are getting much hotter. In fact, this has been the 47th coolest summer on record so far, and there has been no trend in summer temperatures since 1895. Every summer during the 1930s was hotter than 2013.",1_4
"It is not clear. Despite the CO2 emissions, the Earth has been in a cooling cycle for the last 19 years, during the same time the IPCC's ""climate experts"" and others were telling us the Earth was going to become dangerously warm.",1_4
"On its own, the CO 2 increase since 2005 should have caused a radiative forcing of 0.24 Watts per square meter, or 0.34 W m 2 after including the influence of all other greenhouse gases. Even without temperature feedbacks, according to the IPCCs methods this forcing should have caused 0.1 C warming. Adding in the IPCCs temperature estimates of temperature feedbacks and of previously-committed global warming should have caused up to 0.3 C warming since January 2005. None has occurred.",1_4
"I know of no obvious reason for the 0.1C temperature rise 1998-2003, nor for the basically flat temperatures before and after.",1_4
"Debates about those claims revolve around several contentious issues. Key among these are: whether there is, in fact, reason for alarm; what reliable evidence supports that supposition; i.e., what degrees of impact do human have versus natural influences on global temperature changes (both warming and cooling); and what trends can be observed and projected to guide prudent responses? It is not my intent to argue that the global climate has been cooling since the late 1970s, but merely to present a case that there is no convincing evidence that it has been warming.",1_4
The IPCC and other scientists have branded this as a pause in climate change. Ball said that characterization implies that temperatures are temporarily holding steady and will inevitably rise again soon. He said that conclusion is dead wrong.,1_4
A large integrated network of Argo ocean buoys operated by the British Oceanographic Data Center in combination with satellite-enhanced data reveal no statistical warming.,1_4
"What this means:The IPCC knows the pause is real, but has no idea what is causing it. It could be natural climate variability, the sun, volcanoes and crucially, that the computers have been allowed to give too much weight to the effect carbon dioxide emissions (greenhouse gases) have on temperature change.",1_4
"The per century cooling trend of this period, a minus 3.5F, took place in spite of the huge warmth produced by two large El Nio events during this 15-year span: 1997-1998 and 2009-2010 .",1_4
"From observations such as these, it is not possible to place any faith in the IPCCs values for climate sensitivity, which have always been highly speculative. In fact, global temperature since 1980 has been rising at half the rate originally predicted by the IPCC in its First Assessment Report in 1990, and, since 1995, has not risen in any statistically-significant sense at all.",1_4
"Finally, I defy anyone to show me an anthropogenic effect anywhere in these results. Most of the proxies that cover the period 1900-2000 show cooling temperatures, not warming temperatures as the authors claim.",1_4
nan,1_4
"Last months Al Gore / AIT Index had Al Gore ever-so-close to positive territory, and if temperatures had gone up a smidgen more in March Al Gore would have recorded only his second month out of the thirty-eight months since An Inconvenient Truth was released with an average temperature above what it was on that date. But, it was not to be for Al Gore. Temperatures took a big dive down from February to March, going down .18F (.10C).",1_4
"The problem with that argument is that we experienced the bulk of that warming between 1979 and 1998 . . . since then, weve actually had temperatures DROPPING !",1_4
"As shown, the 120-month (decadal) trends have been slightly negative since about 2011. In other words, global temperatures have been coolingslightly. Working back in time, they came close to reaching a zero trend (no warming or cooling) for the period ending about January 1997, but they dont quite reach it. That means we have to go back another decade, to January 1987, until we can see the decadal trends reach zero again, but they dont drop appreciably below it. Its not until the late 1970s that a significant decade-long cooling period exists.",1_4
"6) Do you agree that temperatures for the last 40 years are about the same on average as the period 1931-70? If so is there any reason not to regard current temperatures as anything other than ""normal"" (by 20th C standards!!).",1_4
"5. Inconvenient US Cooling. The government's most accurate, up-to-date temperature data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration covering the period from January 2005 to April 2014 reveal a decade-long cooling trend for the US (contiguous 48 states), see chart above.",1_4
"This makes what has happened in the past decade all the more remarkable. Because the greenhouse effect wants to force the temperature up which in the absence of a cooling influence is what would have happened, the fact that the temperature has remained constant indicates that whatever has been cooling the planet has had to increase in strength at precisely the same rate as the CO2 warming in order to keep the temperature a constant straight line.",1_4
"Prominent global warming alarmist James Hansen admits in a new paper that temperatures are not warming as fast as predicted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Hansen observes that carbon dioxide emissions are rising faster than IPCC forecasts, yet global temperatures are not following suit. Hansen speculates that emissions from coal-fired power plants emissions are fertilizing the biosphere and providing valuable nutrients that aid tissue growth. The extra tissue growth soaks up atmospheric carbon dioxide, which mitigates some of the IPCC??s expected warming.",5_2
"You have to laugh at the idea of global warming science moving beyond such simplistic questions as whether the globe??s surface is actually warming. No doubt this change of emphasis is unconnected to the failure of the said surface to actually, erm, get any warmer.",1_4
"Even though CO2 concentrations are increasing, annual mean temperature in Germany is cooling. Originally a warming of 0.4C per decade was announced. Instead a cooling of more than 0.2C per decade has actually been observed! Chart by J. Kowatsch, data from the German Weather Service (DWD).",1_4
"Surely the temperature has to start going up. Thats what all the current fuss is about. A few years ago the Met Office said that most of the following five years would be record breakers. When it was obvious they were wrong a new model said there would be no change. It is not a minor downward adjustment as Hickman calls it. Its the difference between record warming and no warming, the difference between our understanding and ignorance of the science. Say what you will about regional climate change, accumulating energy in the system, natural fluctuations, man-made aerosols etc, the temperature has to rise eventually. We are all, sceptic or otherwise, waiting for the global temperature to rise. We have been since 1997. --David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 10 January 2013",1_4
"Over the last decade, temperatures have fallen. This is due to all the CO2 we pumped into the atmosphere 30-50 years ago.",1_4
"10. The claim that we must act now are misleading because it implies temperatures are rising at a dangerous rate. In fact, global temperatures since 1998 have not passed that 1998 peak, and early 2008 global average temperatures are marginally less than the equivalent period of 1988 (repeating: 1988, not 1998).",1_4
"Rebuttal: Here the Greens make a huge blunder. First off, theres not been any warming in 12 years. So how can anyone claim temperatures continue their rise? The end of the warming coincided with the end of the 60-year PDO warm phase, which has impacted temperatures over the last several hundred years, see the correlation in the chart that follows:",1_4
"Just like global temperatures, Arctic ones have been flat. Yet Arctic amplification is supposed to be driving temperatures there up at much faster rates.",1_4
"Why do you not mention that the global mean temperature of the earth has not risen over the past 18 years, even though the CO2 atmospheric concentration of the atmosphere has risen during the same period?",1_4
"In other words, in 2009 Murphy was writing about a global cooling (not warming) trend that even climate alarmist Phil Jones admitted began in 1998.",1_4
"UN Trapped in Climate Turmoil CHURCHVILLE, VAThe man-made warming activists at the UN are trapped in turmoil over how to deal with the earths lack of warming since 1998. A week or so ago, the UN climate panel circulated a draft statement that would have admitted were unlikely to have any further earth-warming for the next 30 years because climate change signals are expected to be relatively small compared to natural climate variability.",1_4
The stopping of the rise in global average temperature after 2000-2001 indicates that the hypothesis and prediction made by the IPCC need serious revision. I have been suggesting during the last several years that there are at least two natural components that cause long-term climate changes.,1_4
"In all this discussion what happened to global temperature immediately before the standstill is often neglected. Many assume that since the recent warming period commenced about 1980 global temperature rose until 1998 and then the surface temperature at least got stuck. Things are however not that simple, and far more interesting.",1_4
"The ACC report says that 2000-09 was the warmest decade since modern measuring began. But that is because it commenced at a warm level. To pick another decade, 2003-12 was notably cool in comparison.",1_4
"In addition, a paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres finds that daily temperature range in China decreased from 1962 to 2011 , and that this decrease was due to a decrease in maximum temperatures related to a decrease of sunshine durations over this period. Similar to the findings of this paper, examination of the raw global temperature data shows a significant increase in minimum temperatures over the period 1962-1989, and then leveling off 1989-present. However, over the entire period 1940-present, there is no trend in minimum, maximum, or average global temperature anomalies.",1_4
"I suspect in response to that slowdown in surface warming statement we might see some flawed arguments that global warming continues, along with some graphs that show long-term (1900 to 2014) and short-term (1998-2014) trends are comparable. See my Figure 1. Similar graphs have appeared around the blogosphere.",1_4
* There has been no statistical global warming for the past 17 years most of today's high school students haven't witnessed it in their lifetimes.,1_4
"Morano: ""Global temperatures have been at a standstill. How do you make that sound scary? You make a bunch of scary predictions about a hundred years from now and you say ""Hey it's worse than we thought' You respond: ""What's worse? Global temperatures haven't gone up' and the climate activists answer is ""The predictions of the future are now much worse than they were a few years ago.",1_4
"For the first time, half of the world??s heads of government met in one place. And what did they talk about? Ending poverty? Nah. Making free trade freer? Nopenhagen. After 15 straight years with no statistically-significant ???global warming?? on any measure, they talked about the need to Save The Planet from ??? er ??? ???global warming??. After nine straight years of statistically-significant, rapid global cooling, culminating in a snowstorm of unprecedented severity and extent that swept right across Europe and North America, they tried to tell each other, and us, how urgent the ???global warming?? problem was, and how necessary it was to reach a legally-binding deal to shut down the economies of the capitalist West wholesale.",1_4
"Unfortunately, for all those scientists who went along with the scheme, now, over a decade later, there is a big problem. Contrary to what all those scientists living on their Federal research grants predicted, the world hasn??t been getting warmer. In fact, for the last 7 years, there has been no warming at all, which has been verified even by, for example, Michel Jarraud of the World Meteorological Organization. He??s their Secretary General. He reluctantly admitted that global temperatures have not risen since 1998, according to a BBC article. Global snowfall is at record levels and there are fewer, not more, hurricanes.",1_4
"Focussing on the recent period in more detail, the onset of the current pause coincides with a maximum in upper ocean heat uptake around 2002, and may reflect a recovery both from Mount Pinatubo and from the record 1997/98 El Nio. A recent study (Guemas et al, 2013) shows that, in 2002, the upper ocean below the mixed layer took up heat, while the mixed layer and sea surface temperature did not warm. The onset of the pause may therefore have been caused by ocean processes, predominantly in the tropical Pacific, in which energy trapped by greenhouse gases was buried below the surface of the ocean.",1_4
"The new argument therefore is that the temperature has not risen over the last 10 years. This is indeed correct, both the GISTEMP series and the HadCRUT4 dataset in which missing areas have been interpolated by Cowtan & Way show a trend of 0.00 K/decade over 20052014. To investigate further why the trend has been zero since 2005 it is useful to consider the land and ocean separately.",1_4
"The twentieth century warming trend found elsewhere could not be identified in our proxy record, nor was it found in the corresponding meteorological data used for our study.",1_4
"And I say that knowing there has been a pause in temperatures since 1998. Like James Hansen. Its easy to see. But you know what? There have been pauses beforetwo in the modern temperature recordand when they finished, temperatures did not resume a random nature. They just kept climbing. The pause has been a plateau. Looking at the temperature record would have us bet (not the farm, not our livelihood, but a modest wager) that when this pause concludes temperatures will rise again.",1_4
"The satellite datasets had shown no warming for 18 years 4 months (UAH) or 18 years 5 months (RSS), and the ocean, perhaps the best indicator of the underlying warming rate, had been warming at a rate equivalent to less than a quarter of a degree per across the entire 11-year run of bathythermograph data.",1_4
"""Not only does the RSS satellite dataset show no global warming from December 1996 to April 2015, which is more than half of the entire satellite record,"" Monckton writes , ""But the warming trend since 1900 is roughly 0.8C per century, well within natural variability."" NOAA also expects that the higher CO2 levels will remain that way through May, but drop to lower levels as plants in the Northern Hemisphere begin to bloom, utilizing the CO2 for photosynthesis in the spring and summer.",1_4
"Despite the warming hiatus, Knutti is convinced there is no reason to doubt either the existing calculations for the climate activity of greenhouse gases or the latest climate models.",1_4
"Figure 6. Despite a near-linear increase of 2 atm/year in CO2 concentration (NOAA, 2013, gray), the least-squares linear-regression trend (bright blue) on the RSS satellite monthly global mean lower-troposphere anomalies (dark blue) has been zero for 17 years 3 months (207 months).",1_4
NASA has condensed all we need to know about climate change over the last 60 years into a 15 second video. I suppose they mean CAGW when they use climate change. They described the warming as unprecedented and appear to have a new response to the pause in increasing temperature. Gavin Schmidt is concerned that the temperature hasnt decreased over this period. First they didnt predict the pause and now they have another concern?,1_4
"Of course the confusion here may be worsened by the fact that we aren't ""currently seeing"" any climate change by the headline measure: there has been no global warming for perhaps 15 years.",1_4
"6. Inconvenient Lack of Global Warming. According to the most recent Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) satellite data through May 2014, the global warming trend in the nearly 18 years since September 1996 is zero (see chart above, source here).",1_4
"Fossil fuels allowed man to live his life as a proud human, but the IPCC asserts its use causes catastrophic global warming. Fortunately, the global warming claim by the IPCC that For the next two decades, a warming of about 0.2C per decade is projected for a range of SRES emission scenario is not supported by observations as shown in Figure 1, which shows a plateau for the global mean temperature trend for the last decade.",1_4
"From 1910 to 1940 there was an increase in global average temperature of over that 30-year period, Moore said. Then there was a 30-year pause until 1970. This was followed by an increase of during the 30-year period from 1970 to 2000. Since then there has been no increase, perhaps a slight decrease, in average global temperature.",1_4
The plot below needs little explanation. The globally average surface temperature hasnt warmed in over 18 years according to the RSS satellite dataset.,1_4
"#5. CO2 is not even causing the much ballyhooed, hoped-for, at a minimum, tiny ""statistically significant"" warming. Indeed, for time spans now approaching two decades statistically significant warming is nowhere to be found - in fact, the RSS lower atmosphere satellite measurements show no statistically significant warming over the last 23 years",1_4
"Knappenberger noted that despite the panels climate models, the earth does not appear to have warmed over the past 15 years.",1_4
"Dr. Santer also thinks that volcanic aerosols are an important factor in the hiatus, but probably only up to 25%. He acknowledges that natural long term cycles (mainly the AMO and the PDO ) may contribute significantly, but these are poorly understood and not in the models. Some of the models do attempt to capture the shorter term ENSO cycle, or parts of it. ENSO is clearly not the cause of the hiatus.",1_4
"The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 170-month period that ended about 2004 2006, but warming trends have dropped drastically since then. There was a similar drop in the 1940s, and as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. Also note that the mid-1970s was the last time there had been a 170-month period with a global warming rate that lowbefore recently.",1_4
"The Great Pause is a growing embarrassment to those who had told us with substantial confidence that the science was settled and the debate over. Nature had other ideas. Though more than two dozen more or less implausible excuses for the Pause are appearing in nervous reviewed journals, the possibility that the Pause is occurring because the computer models are simply wrong about the sensitivity of temperature to manmade greenhouse gases can no longer be dismissed.",1_4
"The last time global surface temperatures warmed at this low a rate for a 205-month period was the late 1970s, or about 1980. Also note that the sharp decline is similar to the drop in the 1940s, and, again, as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s.",1_4
Over the past 15 years the rate of global warming has slowed and more recently almost stalled.,1_4
"The highest recent rate of warming based on its linear trend occurred during the 163-month period that ended about 2004, but warming trends have dropped drastically since then. There was a similar drop in the 1940s, and as youll recall, global surface temperatures remained relatively flat from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s. Also note that the mid-1970s was the last time there had been a 161-month period without global warmingbefore recently.",1_4
"44) "" This is not an existential threat to the mainstream theory of climate.""",1_4
"Baltimore sea level is rising at about the same rate as it was in 1910, when global temperatures were supposedly cold and falling. Obviously what is happening in Baltimore has nothing to do with global warming.",1_6
"It is seen that the rate of rise during 1930-1950 was comparable to, if not larger than, the value in recent years. This IPCCs analysis does not support an acceleration in the rate of sea level rise in the latter 20 th century, and hence the data does not support the IPCCs conclusion of a substantial contribution from anthropogenic forcings to the global mean sea level rise since the 1970s.",1_6
"The blue line shows atmospheric CO2 during the same period. CO2 has risen substantially during the last 50 years, but the rate of sea level rise has been constant.",1_6
"Temporal comparisons at five bay stations over two periods, 1944-1975 and 1976-2007, suggest that, while RSL continues to rise at some of the highest rates found along the U.S. Atlantic coast, there is presently no evidence of a statistically significant increase marking an acceleration in RSL rise at any of the five bay stations.",1_6
"A new discussion paper published in Ocean Science evaluates multi-mission satellite sea level records and shows that the rate of sea level rise has greatly decelerated since ~2002, as has been documented in prior research finding sea level rise decelerated 31% since 2002, and decelerated 44% since 2004 to less than 7 inches per century . This is obviously the opposite of climate model predictions in response to a steady rise in CO2 greenhouse gas levels, but is compatible with the ongoing ""pause"" of global warming.",1_6
The film suggests that sea levels could rise by 7m causing the displacement of millions of people . In fact the evidence is that sea levels are expected to rise by about 40cm over the next hundred years and that there is no such threat of massive migration.,1_6
"Another grossly inaccurate claim which totally ignores our adaptive response involves sea level rise. Al Gore likes to show maps of what coastal areas look like presently, and what they would look like assuming a multi-meter sea level rise. A dramatic section of Gores An Inconvenient Truth showed some before and afters of coastal locations under Gores scenario of a 20 foot sea level rise that would happen f Greenland melted or broke up and slipped into the seaor half of Greenland and half of Antarctica melted or broke up and slipped into the sea. For a dose of reality, a recent paper published in Geophysical Research Letters pegged the current rate of sea level rise contributed by Antarctica and Greenland combined at 6 inches/century. How inconvenient.",1_6
"Conclusion: Tide gauge station analysis confirms global sea level rise is modest and not dangerously accelerating as long predicted by the IPCC's climate models and its ""experts.""",1_6
"For the last hundred years, the ocean has risen 20 cm but for the previous hundred years the ocean also has risen 20 cm and for the last 300 years, the ocean has also risen 20 cm per 100 years. So there is no unusual rise in sea level. And to be sure you understand that I will repeat it. There is no unusual rise in sea level, Giaever said.",1_6
"This is confirmed by the annual Atlantic Ocean Sea Level data. Refer to Figure 8. Atlantic Ocean Sea Levels remained relatively flat in 2006, then dropped in 2007. http://i34.tinypic.com/m7b994.jpg Figure 8",1_6
Sea level rise is not accelerating. In fact the recent rise since 1993 is similar to the 1930-1950 period.,1_6
(1) The official Australian claim of a present sea level rise in the order of 5.4mm/year is significantly exaggerated (Figure 3).,1_6
"The critics last remark in this section seems to obfuscate the rather obvious point that we currently cannot say that the rate of sea level rise is accelerating. Without such evidence, the choice of whether to be concerned or not is essentially a matter of personal preference.",1_6
"What astonished me was the sea levels first recorded by the Topex Poseidon satellite array showed virtually no rise at all from 1993-2001. Surely not, I thought. I asked sea-level expert Nils Axel-Morner, and he confirmed: ???Yes, it is as bad as that. ??? Now, given that Envisat (the European satellite) showed no rise from 2003-2011 (until it was adjusted) that means we have almost 20 years of raw satellite data showing very little rise.",1_6
"As for records of sea-level change, tide-gauge measurements indicate no acceleration in sea-level rise in the 20th century.24 Records of sea level, based on precise measurements made by the TOPEX/POSEIDON satellites, show a small trend of 2 mm per year in sea-level rise from 1993 to 1997.25 These measurements imply that if greenhouse gases continue to rise and the global temperature increases as much as the computer simulations say, the estimated rise in sea level over the next 100 years will be less than one foot.",1_6
"Sea levels, after allowing for rising/falling land surfaces, have risen over the last 30 years by between 62mm at North Shields, in the North East, and 48mm in Newlyn in the South West. In other words about 6 to 8 inches per century, and about the same rate it has been rising at since the late 19thC.",1_6
Dr Kench says the growth of the islands can keep pace with rising sea levels.,1_6
"If we take Rahmstorfs 1993 2006 period value of 3.3 mm/year, then we see that sea level rise has actuallyslowed down by 3%, and not risen 60%. The tricks being used by alarmist climate scientists are becoming ever more obvious anddesperate.",1_6
"Almost all of the apparent rise in sea level is due to land subsidence, not sea level rise. The rate of rise on the East Coast is at least 10X higher than on the West Coast because the land isnt sinking on the West Coast.",1_6
"A new paper by White et al , concludes that Australian sea level rises are similar to global measurements (so not a bad proxy for the world), and that during times when CO2 levels were much lower ??? like before World War II, sea levels were rising at the same speed (or possibly faster) than they are today.",1_6
"Tide gauge data show that sea level is rising somewhere between 0.5 and 1.5 mm/year. If a short person stood on the beach motionless for one thousand to three thousand years, they might be in danger of drowning.",1_6
"14. Pachauri said that he had seen for himself the damage done in Bangladesh by sea-level rise. Just one problem with that. There has been no sea-level rise in Bangladesh. At all. In fact, according to Professor Moerner, who visited it recently and was the only scientist on the trip to calibrate his GPS altimeter properly by taking readings at two elevations at least 10 meters apart, sea level in Bangladesh has actually fallen a little, which is why satellite images show 70,000 sq. km more land area there than 30 years ago. Pachauri may well have seen some coastal erosion: but that was caused by the imprudent removal of nine-tenths of the mangroves in the Sunderban archipelago to make way for shrimp-farms.",1_6
(Never mind that sea level hasnt risen an inch in California during the past century.),1_6
"Funny that the sea level record shows no acceleration of sea level rise , despite attempts to show otherwise.",1_6
"Right to survive: The rights of some Parties to survive are threatened by the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise. At 2 inches per century? Oh, come off it! The Jason 2 satellite shows that sea-level has dropped over the past three years.",1_6
"What the graph demonstrates is that heavy rainfall spikes have occurred in the past, and they are not exclusive to our present with m ore CO2. h/t to reader Crosspatch for this link.",1_7
"Environment & Energy reports on the Nature paper we highlighted 2 weeks ago finding no increase of climate variability over the past 50 years . According to the authors, ""Our findings contradict the view that a warming world will automatically be one of more overall climatic variation"" and ""Evidence from Greenland ice cores shows that year-to-year temperature variability was probably higher in some past cold periods."" Furthermore, the paper finds, ""Many climate models predict that total variability will ultimately decrease under high greenhouse gas concentrations..."" The paper corroborates other peer-reviewed papers , the IPCC SREX Report , and the Congressional testimony of Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. & Dr. John Christy finding no evidence of any increase of extreme weather or climate variability with global warming.",1_7
"CO2 Science Although climate alarmists continue to claim the world will experience more extreme weather as the planet warms, this study clearly suggests -- as the three researchers who conducted it conclude -- that, in China, global warming may actually imply ""a possible reduction of hail occurrence.""",1_7
There continues to be little evidence that the recent increase in storminess over the UK is related to man-made climate change.,1_7
"Those fearing catastrophic global warming often point to increased drought as one of the scariest scenarios of climate change. But new research at Princeton University indicates there has actually been little change in drought over the past 60 years, and that the index frequently used to predict drought trends has led to inaccurate findings. The study, published in the journal Nature, points out the so-called Palmer Drought Severity Index is too simplistic in its assessment of precipitation and temperature, with one researcher saying it makes it seem as though it will never rain again. It appears these doubts about drought are drying up yet more climate alarmism.",1_7
"Compared with the likely benefits to both human health and food production from CO2-induced global warming, the possible disadvantages from, say, a slight increase in either the frequency or the intensity of extreme weather events is very small beer. It is, in fact, still uncertain whether there is any impact on extreme weather events as a result of warming (increased carbon emissions, which have certainly occurred, cannot on their own affect the weather: it is only warming which might). The unusual persistence of heavy rainfall over the UK during February, which led to considerable flooding, is believed by the scientists to have been caused by the wayward behaviour of the jetstream; and there is no credible scientific theory that links this behaviour to the fact that the earth's surface is some 0.8C warmer than it was 150 years ago.",1_7
"8. The decade of the 2000s, with the highest atmospheric CO2 levels ever, failed to produce any noteworthy temperature records but one, and severe weather records plummeted from the pace established during 1990s",1_7
"The last days with >15mm were in 2008, and neither exceeded 18mm. Contrast this with other years on record, when such days were more frequent, and much more intense. For instance, January 1961, which holds the record of 27.37mm, or the winter of 1979/80 when there were four days of more than 15mm.",1_7
The 1930s also had the most daily record maximum temperatures.,1_7
More inconvenient results for Al Gore and the mouthpiece of ???Forecast the Facts?? Brad Johnson who like to claim that tropical storms will increase due to global warming.,1_7
Emanuel implies other parts of the world do show ???upward metrics??? Which ones? The Global Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index is falling.,1_7
"1. Between 1954 and 2012, there has been a downward trend in the frequency of strong to violent tornadoes in the US, and that decline is statistically significant at the 1% level (see red line in chart). On average, there has been a decline of almost 0.40 violent tornadoes every year since 1954, or a decline of almost 4 violent tornadoes every decade.",1_7
"Despite what you might have heard about ???extreme weather events,?? damage and loss of life from twisters is in retreat.",1_7
"One hundred degree days occur about half as often as they did in the 19th century, and the hottest summer Greg experienced was his very first one, in 1954.",1_7
"The unusually quiet 2013 fire season continued a long-term trend in declining wildfires. From 1962 through 1982, for example, at least 100,000 wildfires occurred in the United States every year. Since 1982, however, not a single year has registered 100,000 wildfires. During the past decade, an average of 73,000 wildfires occurred each year. During the 1970s, by contrast, an average of 155,000 wildfires occurred each year.",1_7
"At the conference, I presented the same original research that I recently gave at the American Meteorological Society conference in New Orleans. I serve on the Probability and Statistics Committee of the AMS. This work was based on a paper I wrote and is about to appear in the Journal of Climate that shows that the number of tropical storms and hurricanes have not increased in number or intensity since we have had reliable satellite measurements. I also find that previous crude statistical methods others have used to analyze hurricanes have given misleading results.",1_7
"But , far more serious were the droughts in the zones to the North and South. In the Sahel between 200,000 and 400,000 died in the drought of 1972-73.",1_7
Death Valley : The summer of 1917 had 43 consecutive days with a high temperature of 120 F or above.,1_7
"A new paper findsPacific cyclone activity is currently at the lowest levels of the past 5,000 years, debunking alarmist claims that Typhoon Haiyan was caused by man",1_7
"Ryan Maue : A year ago, I walked into a Tallahassee Borders and snapped an IPhone photo (thats my thumb) of Al Gores new book cover and marveled at the locations of hurricanes in a globally warmed future. The book was released at the tail end of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, which uncorked one of the quietest years on record . With Copenhagen, Cancun, and the hottest year ever come and gone, you would think that global climate disruption was spinning up cyclones with reckless abandon. Remember, after Katrina in 2005, scientists published alarming papers linking increases in hurricane activity worldwide to global warming. Fast forward 5-years: the inconvenient truth is that aside from the Atlantic basin , global tropical cyclone or hurricane activity during 2010 has tanked to the lowest levels in decades .",1_7
"The past 4 years have seen 51 total landfalling hurricanes, also on the low end -- the least is 41 (1978-1981) and the most is 80 (four periods, most recently 2004-2007).",1_7
"Despite warnings from those concerned about global warming, the 2006 hurricane season passed largely without incident. This points out, according to David Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research, the continuing difficulties surrounding climate science. Comments Ridenour: ???The number of hurricanes was 38 percent below the number originally forecast by our government. And the number of hurricanes that qualified as ???major?? fell 50 percent below those forecasts. If we can??t depend on hurricane forecasts made six months ahead of time, how can we expect to depend on predictions about the behavior of hurricanes decades from now. Sadly much of our climate science seems to be more based on politic science.??",1_7
"In a region of the globe where climate models predict the effects of CO 2 -induced global warming to be most evident, the past quarter-century has seen no change in the number of fall (June-November) storms.",1_7
"Got that? In no US region is there strong statistical evidence for flood magnitudes increasing with increasing CO2. This is precisely the opposite of the conclusion expressed in the draft report, which relies on Hirsch and Ryberg (2011) to express the opposite conclusion.",1_7
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"Despite this strong evidence for a warming planet, greenhouse gas forcing fails to explain the 2010 heat wave over western Russia. The natural process of atmospheric blocking, and the climate impacts induced by such blocking, are the principal cause for this heat wave. It is not known whether, or to what exent, greenhouse gas emissions may affect the frequency or intensity of blocking during summer. It is important to note that observations reveal no trend in a daily frequency of July blocking over the period since 1948, nor is there an appreciable trend in the absolute values of upper tropospheric summertime heights over western Russia for the period since 1900.",1_7
"I find this kind of analysis totally unconvincing, and it does not recognize the role of natural internal variability such as the Arctic Oscillation, La Nina, etc in producing floods. None of the recent floods are extreme in historical context.",1_7
"Active Tornado Seasons, Big Outbreaks and Stronger tornadoes Have been Shown to Be Associated With La Ninas and Natural Variability in the Pacific",1_7
"Consider who the skeptics are that Trenberth is referring to. This quote was supposedly in response to a group of scientists who contend that the link between global warming and hurricanes is thus far weak and undetectable. These skeptics lay out their case in a soon-to-be-published article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) entitled Hurricanes and global warming. The skeptics who wrote the article are: Roger Pielke, Jr., a leading researcher on risk and loss association with severe storms and hurricanes; Christopher Landsea, a leading researcher on hurricanes and climate; Kerry Emanuel, a leading hurricane modeler; Max Mayfield, the head of the National Hurricane Center; Jim Laver, head of the Climate Prediction Center; and Richard Pasch, a hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center. According to Pielke Jr., the papers lead author, the purpose of the paper was to provide a concise, largely non-technical, scientifically rigorous, globally inclusive, and interdisciplinary perspective on the state of current understandings of hurricanes and global warming that is explicitly discussed in the context of policy.",1_7
"Woodhouse and Lukas?? streamflow reconstructions indicated, in their words, that ???the 20th century gage record does not fully represent the range of streamflow characteristics seen in the prior two to five centuries.?? Of greatest significance, in this regard, was probably the fact that ???multi-year drought events more severe than the 1950s drought have occurred,?? and that ???the greatest frequency of extreme low flow events occurred in the 19th century,?? with a ???clustering of extreme event years in the 1840s and 1850s.??",1_7
"So what to expect in 2009? Well, the last Northern Hemisphere storm was Typhoon Dolphin in middle December of 2008, and no ACE has been recorded so far. The Southern Hemisphere is below normal by just about any definition of storm activity (unless you have access to the Elias sports bureau statistic creativity department), and the season is quickly running out. With La Nina-like conditions in the Pacific, a persistence forecast of below average global cyclone activity seems like a very good bet. Now if only the Dow Jones index didn??t correlate so well with the Global ACE lately??",1_7
"During the period 1900-1940, when most of the 20th century's one-degree Fahrenheit temperature increase occurred, there were 7 years of moderate-to-severe drought.",1_7
"Twenty-seven climate scientists concluded decadal variations in the number of U.S. heat and cold waves do not correlate that closely with the warming observed over the United States. The drought years of the 1930s had the most heat waves, while the 1980s had the highest number of cold waves. 7",1_7
"The exact opposite is true. Heatwaves have become much less common in the US, and their duration has become much shorter.",1_7
"In 1933, the US was hit by two major hurricanes a week apart. CO2 was wellbelowHansens safe level of 350 PPM at the time.",1_7
"Yet another article has appeared in a leading journal of this subject. The piece is by Chunzai Wang and Sang-Ki Lee of NOAAs Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami and the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies at the University of Miami; the research was funded by NOAA. The begin their article noting the 2005 hurricane season is the most active year on record, with 28 named tropical storms in the Atlantic basin and 15 of them reaching hurricane intensity. The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity has fueled a debate on the role of global warming in the increase. (Theres the d-word again that we thought wasnt used anymore!). The last sentence of Wang and Lees first paragraph tips the world off that this piece is not headed to the top of the hurricane alarmists lists. This paper uses observational data to demonstrate that the attribution of the recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity to global warming is premature and that global warming may decrease the likelihood of hurricanes making landfall in the United States.",1_7
"Since Obama took office, the US has averaged 0.6 hurricane landfalls per year. This is the fewest hurricanes of any president since at least 1850. By contrast, Grover Clevelands presidency averaged more than five times as many hurricanes per year as Obamas.",1_7
Media hype calls the latest cyclone to hit Pacific island of Vanuatu worst in history. But actual scientific evidence shows cyclones have not increased in energy nor is there any evidence of a higher frequency.,1_7
"Recent analyses in changes in severe local weather (tornadoes, thunder days, lightning and hail) in a few selected regions provide no compelling evidence for widespread systematic long-term changes. (Source: IPCC, 2001, TAR-02-2, Chapt. 2.7.4., Summary, S.163-164).",1_7
""" claims that 2004 set an all-time record for the number of tornadoes in the United States. Tornado frequency has not increased; rather, the detection of smaller tornadoes has increased. If we consider the tornadoes that have been detectable for many decades (F-3 or greater), there is actually a downward trend since 1950.""",1_7
"This year had the fewest tornadoes on record in the US, and the second fewest number of severe tornadoes, with seventeen. Only 1987 had fewer severe tornadoes, with fifteen.",1_7
"Wealthier, more technologically advanced societies are better able to anticipate, withstand, and recover from climate change, extreme weather events, and other natural disasters. There is no evidence that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent or severe in this century.30 But let s assume for the sake of argument that rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide will warm the planet in ways that increase the number and intensity of severe storms. What type of insurance policy would offer the most protection under such circumstances?",1_7
"In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale",1_7
"First things first the title is wrong. We have presented many essays recently showing that hurricane activity is not increasing in terms of frequency and intensity or that any increase is simply a return to what was commonly observed decades or centuries ago. When we were writing about hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, or Gulf of Mexico (or even the Northeast Pacific), our use of the term hurricane was correct. These severe tropical storms appear in many other parts of the world, and when they occur over the Northwest Pacific Ocean and west of the International Date Line, they are called typhoons. Hurricanes near Australia and in the Indian Ocean are sometimes called Willy-Willies by the locals. However, in the scientific community, hurricanes, typhoons, and Willy-Willies are all called tropical cyclones.",1_7
"As EPA's own data show, despite allegedly ""unprecedented"" warming, U.S. air quality has improved decade-by-decade since 1970 as emissions declined. The report blames climate change for the Midwest drought of 2012. But the government's own analysis concluded otherwise: ""Neither ocean states nor human-induced climate change, factors that can provide long-lead predictability, appeared to play significant roles in causing severe rainfall deficits over the major corn producing regions of central Great Plains."" The Assessment ignores substantial data and research finding no long-term increase in the strength and frequency of tropical cyclones and no trend in extreme weather-related damages once losses are ""normalized' (adjusted for changes in population, wealth, and consumer price index).",1_7
"Lin & Chan, 2015, a study published in Nature Communications, finds that the destructive potential of tropical cyclones (???typhoons??) in the most active and hazardous tropical cyclone basin on Earth, the Western North Pacific Main Development Region, decreased by 35% over the past decade.Lin and Chan use a metric called the Power Dissipation Index (PDI) to measure the destructive potential of Asia-Pacific typhoons. The PDI is a product of three factors: storm frequency, duration, and intensity. In the past decade, typhoon intensity increased due to increases in ocean heat content. However, typhoon frequency and duration decreased due to stronger vertical wind shear and lower vorticity in the storm genesis region. The declines in frequency and duration overpowered the increase in intensity, producing a net decrease in PDI of approximately 35%.Based on climate modeling studies, Lin and Chan project that global warming will induce an additional 15% decrease in the Asia-Pacific PDI. In their words, ???Although both the intensity and duration increased under global warming, there was an even larger typhoon frequency reduction of 25.7%. As a result, the typhoon PDI decreased by 15.2%.??",1_7
"The current drought was very unusual in the speed of its onset, with PDSI (Palmer Drought Severity Index) dropping from slightly wet to severe drought in just five months. In the Illinois Division 1 instrumental record, this has occurred only once before, in 1936. But the droughts current severity has been matched or exceeded on numerous occasions in the past, according to both the instrumental and tree-ring records. ?",1_7
"Global hurricane activity as measured by the ACE index has been in general decline since the early 1990s andas of 2011was near its 40-year low. Source: Maue, R.N., 2011: Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity. Geophysical Research Letters , 38, L14803, doi:10.1029/2011GL047711",1_7
"So far, the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season is comparable to 2006 and 2007, much weaker than in 2005, the year that made it so tempting to abuse tropical storms for dirty left-wing politics by emitting foggy hypotheses about SUV-hurricane links.",1_7
"Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. has authored an excellent essay in yesterdays Wall Street Journal that put the kibosh on the new normal meme seen here . As Pielke clearly shows, hurricanes like Sandy are not the new normal and the data tells us the USA is in a hurricane drought.",1_7
"As for hurricanes, like Irene, the skeptical scientists report that storm frequency does not track with global temperature fluctuations and they add that historical trends show that storms were worse during the Medieval period of about 9501250 AD.",1_7
"Over the period 1944-1996, decreasing trends were found for (1) the total number of hurricanes, (2) the number of intense hurricanes, (3) the annual number of hurricane days, (4) the maximum attained wind speed of all hurricane storms averaged over the course of a year, and (5) the highest wind speed associated with the strongest hurricane recorded in each year. In addition, the authors report that the total number of Atlantic hurricanes making landfall in the United States has decreased over an extended 1899-1996 time period, and that normalized trends in hurricane damage in the United States between 1925 and 1996 reveal such damage to be decreasing at a rate of 728 million dollars per decade. What it means",1_7
The first problem they have is that the comparisons are absurd. The Dust Bowl saw muchlongerlasting and more extensive droughts. Compare 2012 to 1934 below.,1_7
"An interesting aspect of the season was its early start, with two tropical storms, Alberto and Beryl, developing in May before the season officially began. Also, this is the seventh consecutive year that no major hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5) have hit the United States. The only major hurricane this season was Hurricane Michael, a Category 3 storm that stayed over the open Atlantic.",1_7
"Florida has not been hit by any hurricane for seven years, the longest such period on record.",1_7
"Hurricanes have not increased in the United States in frequency, intensity, or normalized damage since at least 1900. Currently, the U.S. is enjoying a period of over eight years without a Category 3 or stronger hurricane making landfall. Government data also indicate no association between use of fossil fuels and tornado activity.",1_7
"In a new book worth reading, The Whole Story of Climate by E. Kirsten Peters, the author brings a wealth of knowledge to the subject from the standpoint of a geologist. As to the claim that carbon dioxide emissions are the cause of a warming that is not happening, she points out that The fact is, if human beings had remained hunter-gatherers throughout our entire history, never producing a single molecule of greenhouse gases through agriculture or industry, climate today would still be changing. It would be lurching toward higher temperatures, crashing toward vastly colder temperatures, or at least swinging toward something different from what has been. Thats just the nature of Earths climate.",2_1
"We cannot stop carbon emissions because most of them come from volcanoes, he said. It is a normal element cycled around in the earth and my science, which is looking back in time, is saying we have had a planet that has been a green, warm wet planet 80 per cent of the time. We have had huge climate change in the past and to think the very slight variations we measure today are the result of our life we really have to put ice blocks in our drinks.",2_1
"Michaels, Knappenberger, Lindzen, along with most of us, recognize that global temperatures have been warming in fits-and-starts since the ""little ice age"" ended in the mid-1800s.",2_1
"As the widget shows, my model predicts for the imminent future a slight warming trending from 2011 to 2016. This modulation is due to the 9.1 year (lunar/solar) and the 10-11 year (solar/planetary) cycles that just entered in their warming phase. This decadal pattern should be distinguished from the fast ENSO oscillations that are expected to produce fast periods of warming and fast period of cooling during these five years as it happened from 2000 to 2012. Thus, the fact that during LaNina cooling phase, as right now, the temperature may actually be cooling, does not constitute a proof that my model is wrong as Leif claimed.",2_1
"The variations in cloud water show some interesting low-frequency behavior. I have previously discussed the fact that these cloud water variations are correlated with CERES-measured net radiative flux, and so provide a proxy measurement for the net radiative imbalance over the ocean which suggest some portion of recent warming was simple due to a natural decrease in cloud cover.",2_1
"We have heard a million times that if we dont stop emitting greenhouse gases, our inexcusable actions will result in a warmer earth, and the warming of the planet will cause icecaps and mountain glaciers to melt and sea level to rise. Island nations will be drowned, coastlines around the world will go underwater, Florida will cease to exist, and the World Trade Center Memorial could someday be a sight seen only by scuba enthusiasts. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says very clearly in the Summary for Policymakers Global average sea level rose at an average rate of 1.8 mm per year over 1961 to 2003. The rate was faster over 1993 to 2003: about 3.1 mm per year. Whether the faster rate for 1993 to 2003 reflects decadal variability or an increase in the longer-term trend is unclear. There is high confidence that the rate of observed sea level rise increased from the 19th to the 20th century. The IPCC crew reminds us that Global average sea level in the last interglacial period (about 125,000 years ago) was likely 4 to 6 m higher than during the 20th century, mainly due to the retreat of polar ice. It seems that sea levels fell and rose many times in the past and long before humans had any chance interfere with the natural order of things. There is no reason whatsoever to expect sea level to remain constant it never has and it never will.",2_1
"Since there is no evidence of a manmade component in the warming of the global oceans over the past 30 years, the natural additional warming of the sea surface temperature anomalies of the North Atlanticabove the natural warming of the sea surface temperatures for the rest of the global oceanshas been a major contributor to the natural loss of Arctic sea ice over the satellite era. Add to that the weather events that happen every couple of years and we can pretty much dismiss the hubbub over this years record low sea ice in the Arctic basin. Personally, Id find it comicalif the desperation on the parts of AGW proponents wasnt so evident. That makes it sad.",2_1
"Examination of ice cores suggests that it takes several hundred years for Earths vast oceans to fully adjust to cycles of global warming and cooling. Thus todays oceans may be still warming, expanding and degassing in gradual adjustment to the medieval warm era which peaked about 700 years ago.",2_1
"Update: I am intrigued by the argument made by Professor Murry Salby in a lecture here (and discussed by Judith Curry here ) that the increase in carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere over the past century or so may be attributable 80% to the warming of the oceans rather than to fossil fuel emissions. In other words that the warming generated the CO2, rather than vice versa -- as happened in most of the Vostok ice core record from Antarctica. He points out that the rate of increase dropped sharply after Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and rose sharply after the very warm El Nino in 1998. He also takes issue with the argument that the ratio of carbon 13 to carbon 12 is necessarily a fingerprint of fossil fuels.",2_1
"The current warm period is no anthropogenic product, rather it is the natural result of a repeating 1000-year cycle that goes back far into the past. Todays warm period does not even reach the temperatures seen in the past warm periods, which at times were 1 to 2C higher. Moreover it is important to note that during both of the past temperature maxima of 1000 and 2000 years ago, the CO2 values were at 280 ppm while today they are at 400 ppm. This indicates that the earlier warmer periods likely were related to natural solar activity and not to a rise in CO2 because there was no CO2 rise during those warm phases.",2_1
"Yes, climate really does change. It was likely just as warm during the Roman warm period 2,000 years ago . . . followed by the Medieval warm period 1,000 years later. Global mean temperatures have since been rising in fits and starts since the little ice age ended about 150 years ago. Overall, this amounts to about 1.5 F since the mid-1800s averaging about 0.1 F per decade. Recent increases have been less than half of the rate predicted by more than 100 IPCC computer models.",2_1
"As Ryan Maue responded, the IPCC might have better expressed this as ""we have high confidence that natural variability dominates any AGW influence in observed/historical TC records"". Pielke continues...",2_1
"He told WND that weather does change over time and that the global system goes through cycles, some slightly warmer and some slightly cooler than others.",2_1
"Anyone who has followed my posts over the past 4 years about the natural warming of satellite-era sea surface temperatures understands there is nothing in the data to indicate that manmade greenhouse gases played any part in the warming. That is, the data indicates Mother Nature, not manmade greenhouse gases, was responsible for the warming over the past 31 years. The same holds true for ocean heat content data.",2_1
"But then something happened. The climate swang back the other direction (like it always does.) This was not a CO2 driven monotonic trend, but rather a cycle.",2_1
"As I have often stated, this is an interglacial period, ice is supposed to melt. Otherwise there would still be a mile of ice on top of New York City. But despite evidence to the contrary, warmists continue to claim that glaciers are disappearing at an alarming rate.",2_1
"The simple truth is that the world is driven by the sun and the climate has natural cyclical oscillations longer than our memories. Some run out to about 1500 years, and there is even evidence for a 5000 year cycle. When we define climate as 30 year average of weather, we are simply fooling ourselves that our puny lifespan matters.",2_1
"Isotope data from Greenland ice cores and historic atmospheric and oceanic temperature records show a consistent pattern of fluctuating 25-30year warm and cool periods over the past 500 years. During the past century, five of these climate fluctuations can be tied to glacial oscillations, oceanic temperature changes, atmospheric temperature changes, and solar variation.",2_1
"""In the absence of a convincing explanation for warming since the mid 19th century, as well as the multi-decade hiatus periods, I find the extremely likely confidence level to be logically insupportable."" ""JC message to Gavin Schmidt (as per our discussion on Dan Kahans blog): No I am not making things up re the 50-50 attribution argument. I regard it as a fundamental flaw in logic to infer high confidence in attribution since 1950, without understanding the warming in the early part of the 20th century and the mid century hiatus.""",2_1
"It also points out an essential feature of most credible thermometer records that cover many decades. Our climate is highly cyclical , driven in fact by ocean and solar cycles, not carbon dioxide.",2_1
The more logical explanation is that there are natural cycles in cloud cover which cause multi-decadal periods of global warming or global cooling.,2_1
"The sea level in Israel has been rising and falling over the past 2,500 years, with a one-meter difference between the highest and lowest levels, most of the time below the present-day level.",2_1
"Possible extraterrestrial origins of the observed cyclicities and one off major climate events are discussed, and the natural variation of climate is emphasized at all timescales including our modern epoch. The internal oscillation of energy flows through the ocean are well considered and run as a constant theme throughout the work. Concurrently, the atmospheric processes which result from the interaction of these oceanic energy flows and the direct input of solar energy on the diurnal, seasonal and longer timescales weaves a narrative which supports the often unspoken contention that wind is a powerful and poorly understood driver of climate at all timescales.",2_1
"Has some corroborating evidence to suggest that cosmic rays are affecting the climate, with the extent.",2_1
"The American scientists also performed afrequency analysis of the climatic fluctuations and found the characteristic cycles with periods of 1500, 90 and 60 years ( Figure 3 ). Schmidt and his colleagues interpreted the 1500 year cycle as those that Gerard Bond described earlier. The data set also contained the 60-year cycle, which likely mirrored the Atlantic Decadal Cycle.",2_1
"Kamis doesn't think the air above the Pacific Ocean has enough energy to heat such large swaths of ocean by more than the 0.5 degrees Celsius for such a prolonged period. He also thinks these vent gases have a profound impact on our climate that's only now being understood. ""The emphasis here is that the ocean is vast and largely unexplored. As such, we are finding more and more vents in the most unlikely of places,"" Kamis writes in an email. ""These vents are very big climate controllers. Not everything can be attributed to the trace gas carbon dioxide.""",2_1
"???The amount of the sun??s energy that reaches the earth??s surface is the main driver of the earth??s temperature. Clouds are one of the least understood aspects of climate change. They can block the sun, but light can also bounce off one cloud into another cloud??s shadow and increase the solar energy hitting earth,?? said PNNL atmospheric scientist Evgueni Kassianov.",2_1
"Following the demise of what has been called the Roman Warm Period, the authors note the existence of three consistently cold events that were centered at approximately 500, 700 and 900 AD, during what is sometimes referred to as the Dark Ages Cold Period. Then, from 1100-1300 AD, they report ""the 18 O of Hongyuan peat cellulose increased, consistent with that of Jinchuan peat cellulose and corresponding to the 'Medieval Warm Period'."" Finally, they note that ""the periods 1370-1400 AD, 1550-1610 AD, 1780-1880 AD recorded three cold events, corresponding to the 'Little Ice Age'."" Regarding the origins of these climatic fluctuations, power spectrum analyses of their data revealed periodicities of 79, 88 and 123-127 years, ""suggesting,"" in the words of the authors, ""that the main driving force of Hongyuan climate change is from solar activities."" What it means",2_1
"Now Piers has a very good record of forecasting the weather. He has been bang on about these cold winters. Like JMW Turner and the Aztecs he thinks we should be paying more attention to the Sun. According to Piers, global temperature depends not on concentrations of CO2 but on the mood of our celestial orb.",2_1
"In my enthusiasm to pitch the importance of being explicit about the role of equilibrium, my email suggested that it could provide a test of which theory is right. If these scientists could show that the temperature gradient of the oceans had reached equilibrium by 1970, or 1986, then their grounds for dismissing a solar explanation for late-20th century warming would be upheld. If equilibrium was not reached, that would support the solar warming theory.",2_1
Report shows UN admitting solar activity may play significant role in global warming | Fox News,2_1
"This paper discusses the effect of the greenhouse phenomenon and CO2 on global climate and suggests that numerical models that lack adequate knowledge of fundamental related factors cannot be used to extract ""sound"" conclusions. A very basic demonstration of this is done through a simple comparison between estimates of the forecast for global temperature increase obtained by various independent studies. Observing the global temperature and the CO2 atmospheric concentration though the geological aeons implies no obvious correlation. Physical observation on other planets like Mars and Venus, needing no numerical modeling, demonstrates the effect of the atmospheric-CO2 partial pressure on the temperature of the atmosphere. Moreover the CO2 role as a factor of danger or a benefactor for life is also addressed. On the other hand the role of the sun in the presently observed global warming has been greatly underestimated. Scientific evidence shows that the orbit of the earth and the Milankovitch cycles greatly affect the climate. A discussion follows pointing out the prime role that the sun should have on the earth's climate with regard to solar cycles' activity and irradiance, cosmic rays and cloud formation. The conclusion drawn here is that a natural signal of solar forcing has been mistakenly overlooked for an anthropogenic change, maybe owing to their quite similar effects on climate. For the moment science does not really have a complete and total understanding of the factors affecting the earth's complex climate system and therefore no sound conclusions can be drawn.",2_1
"Secondly, this paper finds strong evidence of a 30-40 year lag between solar activity and temperature response. So what happened ~40 years after the 1960 peak in sunspot activity? Why that just so happens to be when satellite measurements of global temperature peaked with the 1998 El Nino , followed by the ""pause"" and cooling since.",2_1
"""The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars,"" he said.",2_1
"Khabibullo Abdusamatov , mathematician and astronomer at Pulkovskaya Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy almost throughout the last century growth in its intensityAscribing greenhouse effect properties to the Earths atmosphere is not scientifically substantiatedHeated greenhouse gases, which become lighter as a result of expansion, ascend to the atmosphere only to give the absorbed heat away.",2_1
The IPCC mentioning the possibility of a GCR link to clouds is important here. Prof Nir Shaviv in his JGR paper on Using the Oceans as a Calorimeter found a large amplification by empirical study. Cloud change is likely to be proportional to solar change because otherwise our solar planetary model wouldnt successfully hindcast a good match to the paleo reconstructions.,2_1
"That is the total global output by humanity. If the prescriptions of the Kyoto Accord were universally implemented they would reduce it by 0.035 per cent. Diligent mathematicians may, if they wish, apply themselves to calculating Scotlands contribution to that minuscule CO2 production, harmless in any case since solar activity is the likeliest cause of cyclical climate change. That is the threat to our existence in response to which Alex Salmond is destroying the landscape of his country and imposing hardship on its people. To the faithful, of course, this is the Great Leap Forward.",2_1
"That actually shows high-temperature excursions in absolute measure is due to the fact that this episode of relative warming is superimposed on a relatively higher level of solar activity than the others, and from that point of view this observation may be a reason for claiming that the present period of global warming is exceptional.",2_1
"In terms of F10.7 flux, Solar Cycle 24 peaked two years ago. The relationship between F10.7 flux and sea level rise indicates that a flux of 100 is the break-over between climate warming and cooling. The flux level has been at about that value for the last three years.",2_1
"The reduction in Arctic sea ice and increase in Antarctic sea ice has happened before and is called the polar see-saw or polar anomaly. (See Svensmarks attached paper.) The polar see-saw occurs during Dansgaard-Oscheger events (also called Bond events). It is now apparent the later 20th century warming was a Bond event. Gerald Bond found evidence of cosmogenic isotope changes at each of a long series of warming followed by cooling events (he has able to track 25 events through current interglacial Holocene and into the last glacial period, at which point he reached the limit of the range of the proxy analysis technique) which indicates a solar magnetic cycle change caused the warming followed by cooling cycle.",2_1
"The first paper to suggest the hypothesis that the sunspot number time-integral is a proxy for a substantial driver of average global temperature change was made public 6/1/2009. The discovery started with application of the first law of thermodynamics, conservation of energy, and the hypothesis that the energy acquired, above or below breakeven (appropriately accounting for energy radiated from the planet), is proportional to the time-integral of sunspot numbers. The derived equation revealed a rapid and sustained global energy rise starting in about 1941. The true average global temperature anomaly change -trend is proportional to global energy change.",2_1
"My interpretation is much more direct. During our solar maximum, we had more UV that raised cloud levels and atmospheric height, leading to warm days. Now that the sun is taking a nap, UV has plunged, the atmosphere shortens, and we get lower clouds with colder days. Dont see any need for a CO2 thesis at all.",2_1
"Well, the word ""only"" is somewhat cute in comparison with the ""mainstream"" fashionable ideology. The IPCC said that they saw a 90% probability that ""most"" of the recent warming was man-made. The present paper would reduce this figure, 90%, to less than 50% because the Sun itself is responsible for 1/2 of the warming and not the whole 50% of the warming could have been caused by CO2 because there are other effects, too.",2_1
"Recall that the CO2 warmists in their half-baked models stubbornlykeep focusing only on total solar irradiance (TSI), which itself varies only about 0.1% over an 11-year cycle (and thus by itself is no real climate driver) and ignore all the other amplification mechanisms. Well, the results of this study, as do dozens of others studies, show you cant do that. Like it or not the sun is a real player. Eventually the CO2 warmists will have to admit this, as anyone with even just an inkling of intuition would do.",2_1
"Indeed, Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) presented persuasive evidence that solar variability is leaving an imprint on climate, especially in the Pacific. According to the report, when researchers look at sea surface temperature data during sunspot peak years, the tropical Pacific shows a pronounced La Nina-like pattern, with a cooling of almost 1o C in the equatorial eastern Pacific. In addition, there are signs of enhanced precipitation in the Pacific ITCZ (Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone ) and SPCZ (South Pacific Convergence Zone) as well as above-normal sea-level pressure in the mid-latitude North and South Pacific, correlated with peaks in the sunspot cycle.",2_1
Abdussamatovs theory is that long-term variations in the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth are the main and principal reasons driving and defining the whole mechanism of climatic changes from the global warmings to the Little Ice Ages to the big glacial periods.,2_1
"We hypothesise that Saturn and Jupiter provide the background drumbeat which governs the solar cycle. The modulation of that beat by the other heavy gas giant planets and magnetically active inner planets is the subject of further investigation which has been taking place on this blog and others. We are getting closer to solving the puzzle and being able to predict the future evolution of solar activity levels with a high degree of confidence. That will revolutionise climate science, because once we can confidently predict solar activity, climatologists will rediscover the Sun as an important climate driver. Watch this space.",2_1
"In conclusion, the claim that the global surface temperature record is a fractional random signal fundamentally different from the harmonic nature of the astronomical signals is not supported by the data and careful analysis. The global surface temperature record appears to be made of natural specific oscillations with a likely solar/astronomical origin plus a noncyclical anthropogenic contribution during the last decades. Indeed, because the boundary condition of the climate system is regulated also by astronomical harmonic forcings, the astronomical frequencies need to be part of the climate signal in the same way the tidal oscillations are regulated by soli-lunar harmonics.",2_1
"Some solar scientists claim that 20th century solar activity was merely ??? high ?? without warranting the ???grand maximum?? label, but that is a distinction without a difference. Whether ???high?? or ???grand,?? since we don??t yet understanding all of the ways that living inside the sun??s extended corona might affect global temperature (and there is the rub, that this understanding is still very immature), 80 years of any high level of solar activity could very well account for most or all of the modest warming over this period.",2_1
"In sum, the attempts by warmists to dismiss the role of the Sun in climate change are based upon oversimplified and elementary analyses which conveniently ignore hundreds of peer-reviewed papers finding an increase of solar activity over the 20th century to a solar ""Grand Maximum"" at the end of the 20th century, solar-driven ocean oscillations -which have profound and lagged effects upon climate, and many other solar amplification mechanisms described in the literature, all of which provide plausible mechanisms and explanations for all or most of the global warming of the 20th century, as well as the current 18-year global warming ""pause.""",2_1
"The sun has both direct and indirect effects on our climate. Solar activity changes on cycles of 11 years and longer. When the sun is more active it is brighter and a little hotter. More important though are the indirect effects. Ultraviolet radiation increases much more than the brightness and causes increased ozone production, which generates heat in the high atmosphere that works its way down, affecting the weather. Also, an active sun diffuses cosmic rays, which play an important role in nucleation of low clouds, resulting in fewer clouds. In all these ways the sun warms the planet more when it is active. An active sun in the 1930s and again near the end of the last century helped produce the observed warming periods. The current solar cycle is the longest in over 100 years, an unmistakable sign of a cooling sun that historical patterns suggest will stay so for decades.",2_1
"These results agree with the evidence mustered by Hoyt and Schatten and Georgieva, Kirov, and Bianchi for a phase shift circa 1920 in the relationship between solar activity and terrestrial temperatures. However, we can suggest, here, that the supposed negative correlation between solar activity and terrestrial temperatures prior to 1920 rests on a misconstrued understanding of the data. As can be seen in Figure 6, the relationship between the change in the warming rate and solar activity is still positive, i.e. the warming rate is peaking near the peaks of solar cycles 10, 12, and 14, but at a much reduced level, indicative of the lower level of solar activity during the period. Indeed, for much of solar cycle 12, and all of solar cycle 14, the warming rate is negative, but the change in the warming rate is still following the level of solar activity, becoming less negative as solar activity increases, and more negative as solar activity decreases. Still, there is a strong suggestion in Figure 6 of a phase shift circa 1920 in which the relationship between solar activity and terrestrial temperatures changes dramatically before and after the shift. Before the shift, the lunar period dominates, and the solar period is much weaker. After the shift, the solar period dominates, and the lunar period becomes subordinate.",2_1
"Some of the global warming on other planets (and our blue, not green planet) has been attributed to the Sun and/or nearby cosmic rays. The shared positive sign in most cases is suggestive but I remain an agnostic here. The internal, mostly random planetary variability is still a plausible explanation for all the changes.",2_1
"Henrik Svensmark described how the sun controls the Earths climate through its effect on cloud formation via cosmic rays. His research took years, was rejected by the orthodox, and proved difficult to get published. It now seems to be the most important climatic discovery for years.",2_1
"A recent paper published by the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestial Physics (74) 2012 87-93 and authored by Souza Echer et al. suggests that solar cycles, to a substantial extent, drive global temperatures, and that likely through amplification mechanisms.",2_1
"Who knew? However, a casual question back in 2000, from a colleague while I was doing post-doctoral work at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Toronto, led to surprising revelations on climate change. My colleague, an astrophysicist, asked me how cosmic rays from supernovae could affect life on earth, which led me to explore this area of study. I found that the sun's variability as well as unrelated cosmic ray variations, explain a surprisingly large amount of the observed climate variations, from the 11-year solar cycle to geological time scales. In fact, models including the real effect of the sun also do a much better job in explaining 20th century global warming than those limited to the influence of human carbon dioxide emissions alone. h/t Kevin B",2_1
"1) Empirical Solar / CRF / Cloud Cover correlation: In principle, correlations between CRF variations and climate does not necessarily prove causality. However, the correlations include telltale signatures of the CRF-climate link, thus pointing to a causal link. In particular, the cloud cover variations exhibit the same 22-year asymmetry that the CRF has, but no other solar activity proxy (Fichtner et al., 2006 and refs. therein). Second, the cloud cover variations have the same latitudinal dependence as the CRF variations (Usoskin et al. 2004). Third, daily variations in the CRF, and which are mostly independent of the large scale activity in the sun appear to correlated with cloud variations as well (Harrison and Stephenson, 2006).",2_1
"Solar activity has also been shown to be a driver of Pacific ocean oscillations. Thus, these may be additional solar amplification mechanisms whereby small changes in solar activity are amplified via monsoonal and ocean oscillations to have large effects upon climate.",2_1
We know that the Antarctic Peninsula (advertised as the fastest warming place on the planet) is a volcanic chain which has seen recent activity .,2_1
"There is much more to El Nio event than a simple warming of the eastern tropical Pacific. They have strong impacts on weather around the globe. A strong El Nio event can also cause an upward shift in the temperatures of two-thirds of the surface of the global oceans, while having no apparent long-term effect on the other one-third. Those upward shifts in surface temperatures give the appearance of a relatively steady rise in global surface temperatures when the data are looked at globally. As a result, the rise in global surface temperatures have been incorrectly attributed to human-induced global warming. That means the climate science community is no closer to finding evidence of the human fingerprint in global warming than they were in the early 1990s, the early years of the IPCC. The IPCC has no one to blame for that than themselves, with their focus on carbon dioxide.",2_1
"The warmer interlude in the 1940s and 50s, and again since 1990, are well correlated with the warm phases of the AMO. Based on previous cycles, we may have another decade to go before the AMO returns to its cold phase. And as NOAA point out, it has been around for at least 1000 years, so it wont be going away tomorrow!",2_1
"The hypothesis of manmade global warming depends on manmade greenhouse gases being the cause of the recent warming. But the satellite-era sea surface temperature record indicates El Nio and La Nia events are responsible for the warming of global sea surface temperature anomalies over the past 31 years, not manmade greenhouse gases. And ocean heat content data since 1955 indicate the tropical oceans warmed naturally to depths of 700 meters in response to La Nia events. Ive searched sea surface temperature records for more than 4 years and the ocean heat content records for more than 3 years, and I can find no evidence of an anthropogenic greenhouse gas signal in those two datasets. That is, the warming of the global oceans has been caused by Mother Nature, not anthropogenic greenhouse gases.",2_1
"There was a warming between 1977 and 1999 that coincides with the warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean. The oceans are major drivers of climate, particularly the Pacific, because it covers 35% of the earth??s surface. When it warms, the climate also warms: The atmosphere, the air, is heated from below, the temperatures are higher near the surface.",2_1
It is beyond my comprehension why anyone would seek to force fit an alternative explanation based on CO2 since 1975/particulates from 1940-1970/solar forcing before 1940 etc. when the ENSO explanation explains the temperature trend extremely well and much more elegantly.,2_1
"3. And ENSO, changes in Sea Level Pressure, and the AMO/AMOC are major contributors to the rise in North Atlantic Ocean Heat Content.",2_1
"Global warming and cooling have closely followed the phases of the PDO. The most significant pattern of PDO behavior is a shift between warm and cool phases that last 20 to 30 years. In 1905, the PDO shifted to its warm phase. In 1946, the PDO changed to its cool phase. In 1977, the PDO returned to its warm phase and produced the current warming. In 2007-8, the PDO turned cold again, so we can expect several decades of naturally-caused global cooling.",2_1
"Hmm, Ill have to go back and update the ENSO Dominates NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Data post to make sure the ENSO-induced step changes are still there and verify the North Atlantic Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Is Governed By Natural Variables hasnt changed, too.",2_1
"The whole CO2 argument is tiresome and absurd.The unmoved mover is the sun. The system below responds to the variations in the sun with alag. The warming was because when the oceanswent into their warm cycle (remember there is far greater energy in warm water than in cold dry air), the natural response had to be a warming in the north where there is more land- because equatorialocean warming increases the transport of warm humid air northward. That air has to then warm areas where there is dry air. Ifyou dry out warm humid air,then you warm the airtemperature if the wet bulb is constant. So there is warming over the continents, BUT IT ONLY CONTINUES UNTIL THE OCEANS HAVE ADDED THEIR INPUT. The leveling off of temps is completely consistent with an atmosphere that has absorbed the heat from the warming cycles of the oceans that occurred in tandem from 1995-2007 (warm PDO was 1978-2007, warm AMO 1995 till present, but it will shift).",2_1
"When the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. The culprit is plainly not atmospheric, not extra-terrestrial, not land-based, but oceanic.",2_1
"Not only do these cycles profoundly influence North American climate, there is considerable evidence that they are partly responsible for that popular hobgoblin, ""global warming"".",2_1
"Again this is simply saying there is a natural large-scale thermostat called the ocean. The warmer the ocean, the more it drives the whole climate system.",2_1
The new record captures climate variability in this globally important region and suggests that the warming observed here since the 1950s is not the largest in the past 300 years.,2_1
"According to the authors, ""the significance of this record is that it suggests almost half of the warming occurred prior to 1900, before the dramatic buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases."" Hence, if something other than greenhouse gases caused the first half of the most recent global warming event (in which we are still imbedded), something other than greenhouse gases may be responsible for the second half of the warming as well.",2_1
"A larger point is that the current warming is not unusual. Even greater warming has occurred many times in the last 11,000 years. It has been as much as two degrees warmer than now three times in the last 10,000 years. More important, warming episodes are followed by cooling episodes that can be disastrous for mankind. The long-term trend for the last 3000 years of the Holocene has been cooling. We are slowly sliding into the next long cold at about half a degree C per millennium.",2_1
"Of the 102 studies that looked at the twentieth century temperature record to determine whether it showed unusually extreme warming, only 3 concluded that it did. Sixteen produced equivocal results, and 79 identified fifty-year-long periods of time that were warmer than any equivalent period in the century, suggesting that recent warming is not particularly unusual.",2_1
So the Spitzbergen warming the trough to peak warming of 1917 to 1934 may have been more rapid and greater than in magnitude that the similar warming from 1976 to 2006. But from the adjusted data one gets the opposite conclusion.,2_1
This refutes the government claim that recent warming (which occurred when man-made CO2 was rising) was notably different from an era when man-made CO2 was not claimed to be a factor.,2_1
"Both the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were major climatic events, notwithstanding the attempt of a number of climate alarmists to reduce them to such insignificance that they do not even appear on the temperature history of the world over the past thousand years (see our Editorials of 15 June , 1 July , 15 July and 2 August 2000). Why do the climate alarmists do this? Because they want to promote the idea that the world is currently experiencing unprecedented warming due to increases in the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, particularly CO 2 . As the results of this study clearly show, however, whatever warming may have occurred over the past century or so may be easily nothing more than a return to more normal conditions from the global chill of the Little Ice Age.",2_1
"In the case of the Younger Dryas, average temperatures based on the Greenland ice plummeted as much as 15 degrees Celsius in a few centuries, and then shot back up nearly as much (over just decades) about 1,000 years later.",2_1
"So, this data confirms Obamas assertion that the Exit Glacier has retreated 1.25 miles in the last 200 years. But it also makes it quite clear that it was retreating as fast, or faster, 100 years ago.",2_1
Our climate is constantly changing for perfectly natural reasons that have nothing to do with carbon dioxide.,2_1
"There is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about either the timing or the degree of warming experienced by the northern Tibetan Plateau over the past century or so?? Read More",2_1
"On shorter time-scales, temperatures rose in the early part of the 20th century with little or no man-made emissions of CO2.",2_1
"After some reversion to colder and wetter climates in the next 300-400 years, sharply renewed warming from about 800 AD led to an important warm epoch.",2_1
"One does not have to be a climate ""rocket"" scientist to recognize that the earlier 20th century warming increase was greater than the modern warming. And it is painfully clear, even to proponents of this myth, that the earlier warming increase took place while the CO2 level change was a fraction of that during the modern 50-year period ending in 2013.",2_1
FV: The temperature increase since 1850 is nothing unusual. Such changes have occurred time and again in history.,2_1
"And at their subsequent advanced positions probably around 500 BC as well as between 1650 and 1850 AD the glaciers in the Alps regained an extent, estimated in the Glockner region, at about 5 times their Bronze Age Minimum, when all the smaller ones had disappeared.",2_1
"Again, the recent era on the right side of the picture has no chance to compete with the late 17th and early 18th century: the 1960-2009 period with the +2.65 C per century ends up outside the top ten. The winner is 1688-1737 with the trend +3.83 C per century. The fastest cooling was in 1722-1771, by -1.69 C per century. These 50-year trends can??t quite be extrapolated to a century, either. But they??re much closer to that than the 10-year or 15-year trends.",2_1
"So basically, all that the global warming advocates really have, as the evidentiary basis for their theory, is that global temperatures were a little higher than usual in the late 1990s. Thats it. Which proves nothing. The climate varies, just as weather varies, and as far as we can tell, this is all well within the normal range.",2_1
"So climate changes abruptly, rapidly, and all on its own. No CO2 needed. It can, does, and has, rapidly warmed. Im not going to quote the whole paper at you. Just a couple of cherry picked points about the fact that some places, during some of this time, were warmer than today . At least, per the beetles. Now if it can warm up to warmer than now in some places, all on its own, and without any CO2 from humans, seems to me it could be doing that right now all on its own too.",2_1
"It is interesting to see on the first Icelandic Met graph that the warming trend has been pretty consistent since 1800, albeit with ups and downs. No sign of any accelerating trend there.",2_1
A subsequent post by Tony Brown entitled Historic variations in Arctic sea ice Part II: 1920-1950 provided anecdotal historical evidence of Arctic warmth during this period.,2_1
"A large team of scientists making a comprehensive study of data from tree rings say that in fact global temperatures have been on a falling trend for the past 2,000 years and they have often been noticeably higher than they are today despite the absence of any significant amounts of human-released carbon dioxide in the atmosphere back then.",2_1
It is also clear that the climate of the Earth's polar regions are linked. Intensification of atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere (indicated by a stronger Siberian High and northern circumpolar circumpolar westerlies and a deeper Icelandic Low) and to a lesser degree in the Southern Hemisphere (stronger circumpolar westerlies and deeper Amundsen Sea Low) occurs 8200 8400 years ago. Date from Siple Dome (West Antarctica) and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project ice core climate proxies for northern and southern circumpolar westerlies show remarkably concurrent major intensification periods between 6000 and 5000 years ago and starting 1200 600 years ago. It appears that Antarctic events start earlier and less abruptly than those in Greenland.,2_1
"These colossal global catastrophes of the past, and the certainty that similar catastrophes will occur again in the future, maybe even in our lifetime, really puts the feeble temperature wobbles which are ascribed to humans into perspective.",2_1
"Lovejoy??s 99% solution fails to quantify or even accurately describe the patterns of natural variability of the Late Holocene climate. Therefore, his conclusion that the warming since 1880 (~0.4 C per century) cannot be natural is unsupported in his analysis. While it is possible that up.to half of the industrial era warming might be due to the rise in the atmospheric CO2 concentration, this is hardly conclusive and certainly not at 95% confidence, much less 99%. Davis and Bohling demonstrated that 140-yr runs of 0.4 C per century runs of warming and cooling were not unusual in the GISP2 ice core. The fact that the industrial era slope is roughly twice the norm of the past 2,000 years does not prove that it is of anthropogenic origin. The Little Ice Age was quite possibly the coldest phase of the Holocene since the 8.2 KYA Cooling Event. The LIA was characterized by maximum glacial advances and the most extensive sea ice coverage since the onset of the Neoglaciation (end of the Holocene Climatic Optimum).",2_1
"For instance, after the humorous graph, Spencer showed one that revealed that nearly every century since Roman times has experienced either global warming or global cooling proving that the ""norm"" is wild change and not some grand mean leveling. The graph also shows that the Roman and Medieval warm periods were just as warm as today's temps.",2_1
"Over and over, you heard testimony from your panelists concerning the deteriorating state of the Arctic and its ecosystems, including its human inhabitants. Over and over you heard about how these systems got to be in their current conditiondecades of warming presumably caused by worldwide reliance on fossil fuels as an energy source. No one told you that conditions in the Arctic were nearly as warm, as warm, or warmer, than they are now a mere 60 years ago. Therefore, if Arctic systems are presently struggling more so than in the past, it points to factors other than anthropogenic climate change as the root cause. Below is an international list of scientists whose published work indicates that the current Arctic warmth is of the same approximate magnitude as that of the 1930s and 1940s.",2_1
"The study published online this week in Nature Geosience (06/05/2012) reports the climatic change that occurred at the beginning of the pre-Roman Iron Age and demonstrates that especially the so-called Grand Minima of solar activity can affect climate conditions in western Europe through changes in regional atmospheric circulation pattern. Around 2800 years ago, one of these Grand Solar Minima, the Homeric Minimum, caused a distinct climatic change in less than a decade in Western Europe.",2_1
"Oh, and as far as that ???modern record?? stuff goes, that??s sneaky stuff too. As I pointed out, and as this graph shows , it was much warmer in the medieval warming period ??? you know, back when those Viking ships were pumping CO2 in the atmosphere and when the Carolingian empire got most of its power from coal-fired power plants.",2_1
"As indicated in the figure below, this undertaking revealed that the mean annual SSTs of the 80-year periods centered on AD 990 (MCA) and AD 50 (RWP) were 0.8??C and 1.4??C higher than the mean SST during the AD 1994-2005 portion of the Current Warm Period (CWP). Likewise, they also report that the mean summer SSTs of the MCA and RWP were, respectively, 0.2 and 1.0??C higher than that of the CWP, while the mean winter SSTs of the MCA and RWP were, respectively, 1.3 and 1.8??C higher than that of the CWP.",2_1
"While acknowledging the existence of the cold, chaotic periods, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has barely factored them into its computer models. The IPCC seems to think it is just coincidence that our warm and relatively stable Modern Warming directly followed the latest awful Little Ice Age.",2_1
Proxies from all over the world have shown that global climate was as warm or even warmer during the so-called Medieval Warm Period back around a thousand years. Its not called a warm period for nothing!,2_1
"This actual climate evidence is corroborated by the empirical ice core dataset from Greenland. As the ice core empirical evidence depicts , the ancient periods of the Minoans, Romans and the Medieval era were warmer than the present.",2_1
"A scientist from Stockholm University concludes, ""The pattern of frequent and rapid changes in climate throughout the Holocene indicates that the warming of the last 100 years is not a unique event and is thus not an indication of human impact on the climate, as is frequently claimed.""",2_1
"The researchers collected pollen spores from sediment cores taken from a lake (referred to as JR01 in Figure 2) in Nunavut. They made the appropriate measurements and statistical analyses to link the pollen pattern through time to variations in local temperatures. Surprisingly (to some) they find Reconstructed mean July temperatures remained around 6.6 C before 5700 cal yr BP. July temperatures then increased to 7.8C between 5700 and 3800 cal yr BP and temperatures have decreased slightly during the past 3800 yr and Maximum estimated July temperatures were reached between 5800 and 3000 cal yr BP, at which time they exceeded present-day values. Finally Reconstructions of July temperature using the modern analog technique showed that the mid-Holocene (58002800 cal yr BP) was approximately 1C higher than during the past 1000 yr. See Figure 3, for their temperature reconstruction.",2_1
"See also my other posts on the Medieval Warm Period , and Little Ice Age . If anyone tries to claim the Warmth in Greenland 1000 years ago was a local phenomenon, look at this assembly of hundreds of studies from every continent (bar Australia) showing that it was warmer all over the globe, and that the hockey stick is a minor flawed set of studies in disagreement with most of the data.",2_1
"This brings us to the Number of The Week: 86.7% . As TWTW reported last week, Professor Emeritus of Geology Don Easterbrook has given the annual temperature reports in a different frame of reference. Based on his calculations from the GRIP-2 ice cores from Greenland, for 9,100 of the past 10,500 years it was warmer than today. That is, 86.7% of the time during this 10,500 year period it was warmer than today, and 13.3% of the time it was colder (at least in Greenland).",2_1
"In conclusion, the results of these several studies demonstrate that the so-called unprecedented warmth of the late 20th century is simply a myth, as far as China is concerned. The apparent great warmth of this period in this particular part of the world appears to have been but a common manifestation of naturally-induced and regularly-recurring conditions similar to those that have been experienced in prior millennia. These results also serve as a testimony against those who would deny the existence of an extensive (hemispheric or global) Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age, as well as an extensive Roman Warm Period and Dark Ages Cold Period, and cyclical climate changes in general. Clearly, it's time for everyone to wake up! ... and to recognize the dynamic nature of real-world climate change!",2_1
"From CO2 Science , another peer reviewed paper with a paleoclimatology reconstruction based on cores containing plankton shells, show that both the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA) can be seen in Indonesia. In the past, critics have said these events to be ???regional?? implying they occurred only around Europe, due to lack of historical records in other regions of the world.",2_1
"The ACWT record, to quote the authors, reveals the existence of ""two distinct warm periods from the late 1920s to 1950s and in the late 1980s-90s and two cold periods, one at the beginning of the record (until the 1920s) and another in the 1960s-70s."" The SAT record depicts essentially the same thing, with the peak temperature of the latter warm period being not quite as high as the peak temperature of the former warm period. In the case of the ACWT record, this relationship is reversed, with the peak temperature of the latter warm period slightly exceeding the peak temperature of the former warm period; however, the most recent maximum temperature is very short-lived and rapidly declines to hover around a value that is about 1C cooler over the last few years of the record. What it means",2_1
"These 20 studies confirm that the known Northern Hemisphere natural climate change periods, referred to as the Little Ice Age , the Medieval Warming , the Dark Ages and the Roman Period , also had significant impacts on the Southern Hemisphere.",2_1
"The spatio-temporal pattern of peak Holocene warmth (Holocene thermal maximum, HTM) is traced over 140 sites across the Western Hemisphere of the Arctic (0180W; north of ~60N). Paleoclimate inferences based on a wide variety of proxy indicators provide clear evidence for warmer-than-present conditions at 120 of these sites. At the 16 terrestrial sites where quantitative estimates have been obtained, local HTM temperatures (primarily summer estimates) were on average 1.6 +- 0.8 deg C higher than present (approximate average of the 20th century), but the warming was time-transgressive across the western Arctic. As the precession-driven summer insolation anomaly peaked 1210 ka (thousands of calendar years ago), warming was concentrated in northwest North America, while cool conditions lingered in the northeast. Alaska and northwest Canada experienced the HTM between ca 11 and 9 ka, about 4000 yr prior to the HTM in northeast Canada",2_1
"The fallacy in this logic is of course that when energy is lost it has a cooling effect not a warming effect. But the AGW logic has flipped reality upside-down so that atmospheric warming is caused by the energy being lost to space which is really in actual fact, cooling.",2_3
"Answer: Almost certainly nothing , for the same reasons as above, and also since CO2 is unlikely to be revealed as the main driver (or even one of the main drivers) of global warming.",2_3
"Whether the ice caps are melting and whether this is due to global warming or not is not the issue. The issue is whether it is something we can prevent and simply it is not. I have yet to be convinced that CO2 warming effect is significant enough to be responsible for the temperature rises alarmist automatically attribute, without any scientific proof, to CO2, and particularly anthropogenic CO2 emissions. If it is any other reasons to the alarmists presumptions of CO2, then the solution to the global warming problem changes from one of prevention to remedial action. However, thanks to the alarmist everyone is now looking at the wrong solution to the problem.",2_3
"Despite an estimated spend of well over $100-billion since 1990 looking for a human global temperature signal, assessed against geological reality no compelling empirical evidence yet exists for a measurable, let alone worrisome, human impact on global temperature.",2_3
"The final question that arises is what prediction has the AGW made that has been demonstrated, and that strongly supports the theory. It appears that there is NO real supporting evidence and much disagreeing evidence for the AGW theory as proposed. That is not to say there is no effect from Human activity. Clearly human pollution (not greenhouse gases) is a problem. There is also almost surely some contribution to the present temperature from the increase in CO 2 and CH 4 , but it seems to be small and not a driver of future climate. Any reasonable scientific analysis must conclude the basic theory wrong!!",2_3
"However, these two increases did not take place together. Much of the observed temperature rise of 0.5 C occurred before 1940, whereas most of the additional carbon dioxide (over 80%) entered the atmosphere after 1940. Increased greenhouse gases cannot explain a temperature rise that occurred before the major increases in these gases existed in the atmosphere.",2_3
"We find that there is no requirement to invoke greenhouse gas driven mechanisms to explain the temperature changes that are recorded in the ice core record. Instead, we show that changes in the reflection/absorption of sunlight by atmospheric dust are plausible in both an historical sense, by correlation, and in terms of the basic physics of radiative transfer.",2_3
Is not evidence about what causes global warming. Proof that global warming occurred is not proof that CO2 was mainly responsible.,2_3
"There is no evidence that carbon dioxide has caused global warming, or causes damage to",2_3
"The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming. Evidence consists of observations made by someone at some time that support the idea that carbon emissions cause global warming.",2_3
"Therefore, even some of those scientists Lord Monckton relies upon agree with PSI that any increase in CO2 actually cools the atmosphere contrary to the some warming assertion his lordship monotonously repeats.",2_3
"CO2 is not climate-relevant; from ground-based measurements, climate change and warming cannot be shown to be caused by increasing Co2 .",2_3
"Geoscience professors Dr. Ole Humlum and Dr. Jan-Erik Solheim have described a simple, empircal harmonic climate model that accurately explains global temperature observations since 1850, without incorporating any forcing from man-made CO2 or aerosols. According to the authors, "" What puzzles many is that this model does not have contributions from CO2 and aerosols."" "" I f we'd had a warming due to CO2, this should appear as a deviation from the simple harmonic model since 1950.There are no signs of any additional heating due to CO2 as the IPCC claims in their reports, thus the assumed CO2 effects in IPCC climate models are exaggerated.The net effect of CO2 is thus so modest that it can not be seen in this data.""",2_3
"The Greenhouse Gas Theory (GHGT) which please know, is nothing but a theory was invented 200 years ago and repudiated 100 years ago.",2_3
Even more important is the mathematical and observational proof that the effect of CO2 on climate is effectively nil.,2_3
"On the overlapping absorption spectral bands of carbon dioxide and water vapor, the carbon dioxide propitiates a decrease of the total emissivity/absorptivity of the mixture in the atmosphere, not an increase, as AGW proponents argue1, 2, 3.",2_3
"Conversely, our understanding that human greenhouse gas emissions are driving global temperatures has a proverbial mountain of supporting evidence. Too bad that every single ""line of evidence"" that Dana1981 has offered was a negative one.",2_3
"Even so, CO2 constitutes a mere 0.04% of the atmosphere. There is no evidence CO2 plays any role in the Earth?s global temperature.",2_3
"7) Is Increasing CO2 Even Capable of Causing Warming? There are some very intelligent people out there who claim that adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere cant cause warming anyway. They claim things like, the atmospheric CO2 absorption bands are already saturated, or something else very technical. . While it is true that most of the CO2-caused warming in the atmosphere was there before humans ever started burning coal and driving SUVs, this is all taken into account by computerized climate models that predict global warming. Adding more should cause warming, with the magnitude of that warming being the real question. But Im still open to the possibility that a major error has been made on this fundamental point. Stranger things have happened in science before.",2_3
"As per my article this week , forty years ago the space agency, NASA, proved there was no such thing as a greenhouse gas effect because the blackbody numbers supporting the theory didnt add up in a 3-dimensional universe:",2_3
"As more and more scrutiny is applied to the world-wide climate scientists data, methods, peer-review system, and agenda, it is apparent that there is no cause for alarm over CO2 emissions, or any other so-called greenhouse gas emissions. The entire basis for CO2 causing the Earth to warm catastrophically is false. There are cities in California that show a pronounced cooling even while CO2 continues to rise Eureka, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Sacramento. San Francisco shows a gradual increase in temperature that corresponds to population growth, but not to CO2 in the atmosphere. see this.",2_3
"Surface Radiation: I set this in accordance with the NASA 2011 energy budget since the other two energy budgets hugely exaggerate this to accommodate their huge back radiation values. I showed in my analysis in the paper Infrared-Absorbing Gases and the Earth's Surface Temperature that there was an upper bound of 5.8% on the amount of back radiation incident on the surface. This was without even invoking the fact that heat flows from warm to cool surfaces and conditions when the air is warmer than the surface other than within a very few tens of meters are infrequent. Because I set the back radiation warming at an estimated value of 1%, the Surface Radiation is (51 + 1 - 7 - 24)% = 21%.",2_3
"The last result does not look obviously compatible with the theory that world-wide warming has been caused by CO2 and other so-called greenhouse gases. If that were true, the intra-seasonal correlations would be higher, as CO2 concentration has a strong seasonal component: instead, they are generally even lower than the link between, say, Winter temperatures to Spring temperatures.",2_3
"1. Convection accounts for approximately 67% of the total amount of heat transfer from the Earth's surface to the troposphere, the condensation of water vapour for 25% and radiation accounts for only 8%. As the heat transfer in the troposphere occurs mostly by convection, accumulation of CO2 in the troposphere intensifies the convective process of heat and mass transfer, because of the intense absorption of infrared radiation, and leads to subsequent cooling and not warming as commonly believed.",2_3
"our rejection of AGW is not absolute; it might be a false positive, and we cannot rule out the possibility that recent global warming has an anthropogenic footprint. However, this possibility is very small, and is not statistically significant at conventional levels.",2_3
"You can wrap a heat source with as much insulation as you want. All that will happen is that the insulation will reach the temperature of the heat source, and the heat source willnot rise in temperature. Insulation is just matter, just material like anything else. When exposed to heat, it will warm, and will conduct that heat outward via diffusion.",2_3
"In the stratospherethe absorption of sunlight by the plentiful ozone trace gas is the main source of heat. Naturally the absorbed radiative energy must be given off once again. In the stratosphere this occursfor the most part through heat radiation into space by CO2 molecules. Therefore CO2in the atmosphere has a cooling effect, ozone a warming effect!",2_3
What happens to an air parcel when a CO 2 molecule absorbs an IR photon? Since the molecule can only exist in specific discrete energy states it jumps to a higher (excited) energy state. However in this process the translational energy of the CO 2 molecule does not change. The average speed of the molecules of the air parcel containing this CO 2 molecule has not increased. Since temperature is related to the root mean square speed of the molecules the temperature of the air parcel does not increase. CO 2 does not trap heat.,2_3
"Yet all the while Hertzberg, Latour, Postma, Kleespies and other non-partisan scientists are telling us is that there is no such thing as a Greenhouse Effect. If you study their writings you will see how they openly address the complexities within the physics and thermodynamics to show that our planets surface temperature can be explained without the chicanery concocted behind closed doors. We can see that there is no need to postulate an additional radiative GHE, and that the entire concept is based on a misinterpretation and an incorrect comparison of physical metrics.",2_3
"Early Earth stayed warm because its ocean absorbed more sunlight; greenhouse gases were not involved, Stanford researchers say. See more about the Faint sun paradox here . A video clip follows.",2_3
"(6) EVUETIPTCTHODTEOAPTs might conclude that the small increase in the level of the atmospheric trace gas CO2 is known by mankind to be harmful to the Earth??s environment,",2_3
This is the so-called logarithmic effectadding more and more CO2 has a progressively weaker radiative forcing response.,2_3
"IN recent years, a major advance in our understanding of the physical dynamics of the climate process has come from the work of Ferenc Miskolczi. For the present note I am calling his discovery the climatically saturated greenhouse effect. I use these words to mean that the saturation of which I speak is not the classical static saturation of an isolated system, but is saturation in a specially extended sense for an open system in a thermodynamically-non-equilibrium dynamic steady state.",2_3
"2. Closer examination of the last century using better data shows that from 1940 to 1975 the earth cooled at about 0.1C/decade while atmospheric carbon increased. But any warming effect of atmospheric carbon is immediate. By 2003 or so we had discovered global dimming, which might be adequate to explain this 35-year non-correlation. But what had seemed like a good fit between recent atmospheric carbon and global warming now looks shaky, in need of the recently-discovered unquantified global dimming factor to explain 35 years of substantial cooling. I reckon the last century of correlation evidence now neither supports carbon emissions as the cause nor eliminates it. Further quantitative research on global dimming might rescue this bit of evidence, or it might weaken it further.",2_3
4.They claimed an increase in CO2 causes an increase in temperature. Every single record of any duration for any time period shows the opposite. Temperature increases before CO2. It is not driving temperature or climate change.,2_3
"Of the two periods of global warming this century, the first, and warmest, occurred before rise in carbon dioxide;",2_3
"In every record, temperature increases before CO2. In other words, CO2 is not causing temperature increases, contradicting the basic assumption of the entire anthropogenic global warming hypothesis.",2_3
"With that in mind, in early 2009, we started carefully studying the science behind the man-made global warming theory, and analysing the data for ourselves. Our research has revealed that increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in atmosphere does not cause global warming.",2_3
"If carbon emissions rise faster than anyone predicted, but the rise in global air temperatures is about 90percentless than expected, and if we are told that we should be seeing more droughts whereas there is actually a decrease, then so-called scientific forecasts about carbon dioxide emissions are woefully wrong.",2_3
"The most obvious reason is that CO2 lags temperature. Changes in ocean temperature have driven the changes in atmospheric CO2, as explained here . CO2 is not the driver.",2_3
"The temperature increases or decreases come first, and it is only after 500-1500 years that the CO2 follows. Fig 3 shows the data from the termination of the last Glacial Cooling (Major Glaciation) that ended some 15,000 20,000 years ago through the current Interglacial Warming of today. The four instances where the temperature changes precede the CO2 curve are clearly shown. All the Vostok data going back some 420,000 years show exactly the same behavior. Any objective scientist looking at that data would conclude that it is the warming that is causing the CO2 increases, not the other way around as Gore claimed. I am indebted to Guy Leblanc Smith ( guy.lbs@rockknowledge.com.au ) for granting permission to use Fig. 3 as it was published in Viv Forbes web-site www.carbon-sense.com .",2_3
Changes in global atmospheric CO2 are lagging about 9 months behind changes in global lower troposphere temperature.,2_3
"Ghostly artistic images of water vapor using data from the Aqua satellite's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder. NASA. Without such a theory it is impossible to predict changes in atmospheric circulation, it is impossible to predict changes in the hydrological cycle, it is impossible to predict storm frequencies, intensities and tracks. Future climate cannot be predicted without a theory explaining how climate works, yet the IPCC has confidently made predictions regarding changes in storms, precipitation and climate for decades, even centuries into the future. If something as seemingly simple as water vapor can have such complex and bewildering impacts on Earth's climate why does the IPCC and the climate crisis crowd continue to insist that all fault lies with CO 2 ? It could be that even they realize that blaming global warming on water vapor would give them no political leverage. After all, 70% of our planet's surface is covered with water and not even the most wild-eyed geoengineering proponent would propose we attempt to control the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.",2_3
"Like water vapour, carbon dioxide also absorbs some incident Solar radiation, particularly in the 2.7 micron band. So it prevents this radiation from reaching and warming the surface. However, the atmosphere has only about 0.04% carbon dioxide, compared with about 1% to 4% water vapour. Each water vapour molecule absorbs and radiates in a far wider range of wavelengths than each carbon dioxide molecule and so, as some have estimated, the overall effect of all the carbon dioxide could be as little as 0.1% that of all the water vapour. And that effect is likely to be a net cooling effect anyway.",2_3
"Furthermore, the missing hotspot in the atmospheric warming pattern observed during the last warming period proves that (1) the IPCC climate theory is fundamentally broken, and (2) to the extent that their theory correctly predicts the warming signature of increased carbon dioxide, we know that carbon dioxide definitely did not cause the recent warming (see here for my full explanation of the missing hotspot ). The alarmists keep very quiet about the missing hotspot.",2_3
"In its Endangerment Finding, the EPA produced no physical evidence of the existence of the hotspot. Further, with the divergence of atmospheric data from the surface data, which has been inflated to show a greater warming trend than before, it is doubtful if anyone can show the existence of a pronounced hotspot.",2_3
"Naturally they claim this ancient forest was wiped out by global warming, somehow forgetting to mention that for hundreds of millions of years prior to the Carboniferous age atmospheric carbon dioxide had been somewhere north of 3,000ppm, possibly far north. The later Permian warming occurred when CO 2 was at about its lowest point in at least 300 million years the only other time it is thought to have been as dangerously low as todays meager levels.",2_3
"Dr. Craig Idso , the founder, former president, and current chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, provided a plethora of information on exactly how CO2 affects the environment. Global warming alarmists should be comforted that they have a lot more to be happy about and should not be fretting that global catastrophe is knocking at the door.",5_2
"Life plays a major role in determining the climate of the planet, and has for eons been able to maintain the globe's mean temperature within a range conducive to its continued existence. Peck et al . have illuminated one of the many phenomena that contribute to this grand homeostasis. References",3_1
"Since 0.9 K warming has occurred since 1750 (Central England Temperature Record), the 2 K threshold beyond which we are told a net climate-related cost begins to arise may well not be crossed until the end of this century. A slow rate of warming is less damaging than a rapid rate, so even after 2100 the net disbenefit from the warming may be insignificant.",3_1
"Of course were being told that global warming is bringing clouds closer to the ground, and that Falling clouds could counter global warming.",3_1
"The conclusiontaking the best observational estimates of the change in decadal-average global temperature between 1871-80 and 2002-11, and of the corresponding changes in forcing and ocean heat uptakeis this: A doubling of CO2 will lead to a warming of 1.6-1.7C (2.9-3.1F).",3_1
"However, climate scientists and climate models instead falsely assume that the Kirchhoff, Planck, and Stefan-Boltzmann laws can be applied to greenhouse gases and that they behave as blackbodies. Dr. Robitaille shows prior work from Hottel et al demonstrating that the emissivity of both of these greenhouse gases decrease with temperature , the opposite of the climate science assumption that greenhouse gases increase emissivity and absorptivity with temperature. For conservation of energy, emissivity must equal absorptivity for all materials and gases, therefore increases in temperature decrease both emissions and absorption of infraredradiation by the greenhouse gases water vapor and CO2, i.e. they become less 'greenhouse like' gases as temperatures increase, a self-regulatory mechanism that suggests less climate sensitivity to CO2 with increasing temperature.",3_1
"Two new climate studies have delivered a critical blow to global warming alarmism. Estimates driven by old computer models projected an increase of 1.2 C in global temperature if carbon-dioxide levels double. However, new research relying on available empirical data shows the climate's sensitivity to higher amounts of carbon dioxide is much lower than previously thought as low as 0.02 C if carbon-dioxide levels double. With these modest temperature projections, perhaps the Chicken Little tendencies of climate alarmists will subside. READ MORE",3_1
"What follows is quantitative evidence that suggests why this mix-up between cause and effect causes the illusion of high climate sensitivity. (The paper describing this evidence is under revision to be resubmitted to Journal of Geophysical Research after we address questions raised by the three reviewers of the paper). The causation issue can be illustrated with the following graph of 7.5 years of recent satellite-measured global ocean average variations in tropospheric temperature versus top-of-atmosphere total radiative flux (LW is emitted infrared, SW is reflected sunlight). Both of these datasets are publicly available.",3_1
"The authors findings, as well as those of the other scientists they cite, provide strong support for the negative feedback phenomenon we outline in our Editorial of 10 October 2001 , which describes but one of the many different ways in which earth's biosphere tempers the tendency for global warming produced by man's CO 2 emissions. References",3_1
"The sensitivity atmospheric temperature to CO2 from measured data, is therefore much lower than was predicted and that includes the argo data. Alternatively rather than a CO2 sensitivity misjudgement, all that heat that Dr. Trenberth is famously looking for, very well could be sitting in the deep ocean making too little impact over 100 years to actually measure and all it would take is a tiny bit more (or less) oceanic intermixing than models predict for that huge heatsink to be the true source of measured climate change. It could potentially have overwhelmed the CO2 effect without our knowing.",3_1
"While Dessler and Trenberth (among others) claim clouds have an overall positive feedback warming effect upon climate due to the long-wave back-radiation, this new paper shows that clouds have a large net cooling effect by blocking incoming solar radiation and increasing radiative cooling outside the tropics.",3_1
"Projections v. Reality: On his blog, Roy Spencer presents a comparison of the lower atmospheric temperature trends as projected from 44 climate models and as calculated from satellite observations. John Christy provided the model projections. Spencer used the both the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) and the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) calculations. The disparity is striking. Since the greenhouse effect takes place in the lower atmosphere, this is further evidence that the planet is not as sensitive carbon dioxide emissions as advocated by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).",3_1
"When I looked at historic temperature and CO2 levels, it was impossible for me to see how they could be in any way consistent with the high climate sensitivities that were coming out of the IPCC models. Even if all past warming were attributed to CO2 (a heroic assertion in and of itself) thetemperatureincreases we have seen in the past imply a climate sensitivity closer to 1 rather than 3 or 5 or even 10 (I show this analysis in more depth in this video ).",3_1
"Readers may recall that last December I published an informal climate sensitivity study at Bishop Hill, here . The study adopted a heat-balance (energy budget) approach and used recent data, including satellite-observation-derived aerosol forcing estimates. I would like now to draw attention to a new peer-reviewed climate sensitivity study published as a Letter in Nature Geoscience , ""Energy budget constraints on climate response"", here . This study uses the same approach as mine, based on changes in global mean temperature, forcing and heat uptake over 100+ year periods, with aerosol forcing adjusted to reflect satellite observations. Headline best estimates of 2.0C for equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) and 1.3C for the arguably more policy-relevant transient climate response (TCR) are obtained, based on changes to the decade 200009, which provide the best constrained, and probably most reliable, estimates. The 595% uncertainty ranges are 1.23.9C for ECS and 0.92.0C for TCR. I should declare an interest in this study: you will find my name included in the extensive list of authors: Alexander Otto, Friederike E. L. Otto, Olivier Boucher, John Church, Gabi Hegerl, Piers M. Forster, Nathan P. Gillett, Jonathan Gregory, Gregory C. Johnson, Reto Knutti, Nicholas Lewis, Ulrike Lohmann, Jochem Marotzke, Gunnar Myhre, Drew Shindell, Bjorn Stevens, and Myles R. Allen. I am writing this article in my personal capacity, not as a representative of the author team.",3_1
"Finally, if, as Lindzen (2008) has suggested, all terrestrial forcings were cut by two-thirds to take account of the absence of the altitudinal difference in decadal warming rates in the tropics that is predicted in all of the models on which the IPCC relies but has not been observed in half a century of radiosonde observations and 30 years of satellite records (Douglass et al., 2007), climate sensitivity would again decline",3_1
"Now researchers at MIT have found that with the loss of sea ice, the Arctic Ocean is becoming more of a carbon sink. The team modeled changes in Arctic sea ice, temperatures, currents, and flow of carbon from 1996 to 2007, and found that the amount of carbon taken up by the Arctic increased by 1 megaton each year.",3_1
Truth n 10 The water vapour content of the air has been roughly constant since more than 50 years but the humidity of the upper layers of the troposphere has been decreasing: the IPCC foretold the opposite to assert its ???positive water vapour feedback?? with increasing CO2. The observed ???feedback?? is negative.,3_1
"But if some other forcing is responsible for the temperature change, that necessarily implies lower climate sensitivity. And the greater the unknown forcing involved, the smaller the climate sensitivity you will calculate.",3_1
"August, 2007 RESEARCH UPDATE: Our peer-reviewed paper showing the natural cooling behavior of tropical cirrus clouds in response to warming was published on August 9 in Geophysical Research Letters. (The UAH news release is here. ) In that paper we describe satellite evidence for a natural cooling mechanism (negative feedback)that occurs when the tropical atmosphere heats up. This is in contrast to all leading climate models, which have cirrus clouds behaving as a positive feedback, amplifying warming tendencies.",3_1
"Several negative feedback mechanisms have been proposed by others to explain the stability of maximum sea surface temperature (SST) in the western Pacific warm pool (WPWP). If these ocean thermostat mechanisms effectively suppress warming in the future, then coral reefs in this region should be less exposed to conditions that favor coral reef bleaching. In this study we look for regional differences in reef exposure and sensitivity to increasing SSTs by comparing reported coral reef bleaching events with observed and modeled SSTs of the last fifty years. Coral reefs within or near the WPWP have had fewer reported bleaching events relative to reefs in other regions. Analysis of SST data indicate that the warmest parts of the WPWP have warmed less than elsewhere in the tropical oceans, which supports the existence of thermostat mechanisms that act to depress warming beyond certain temperature thresholds.",3_1
"And this is what many have been saying now and for some time, that the climate sensitivity has been overestimated. Kudos to Annan for realizing the likelihood of a lower climate sensitivity.",3_1
"Q: Dr. S. Fred Singer: Perhaps to clarify the discussion. We need to separate these results of model experiments - of course that's all they are are experiments with models, from scenarios of how CO2 will increase. These are two separate issues. As far as I can tell from the IPCC report, their estimate or their numbers for the what is call the ""climate sensitivity"" that is, how much temperature rise will be produced by doubling of CO2 alone, all other things being equal, has not changed since 1990. It is still estimated to be between 1.5 and 4.5 C for a doubling of CO2. And what Roy has addressed here is the fact that this is probably a faulty estimate because they have not taken into account the reduced feedback, perhaps even negative feedback, of water vapor and reduced, perhaps even negative feedback of clouds. So the climate sensitivity is the one we are interested in. I think many of us believe that these numbers, that the IPCC has given, are just plain wrong.",3_1
"Even more important, the feedbacks (from WV and from clouds) may actually be negative rather than positive (as assumed in all climate models). This possibility follows from the analyses of satellite data .",3_1
"These strong negative cloud feedbacks resulted in a low climate sensitivity of only 0.41 K/(W m-2), described as being at the ???low end?? of traditional GCMS (i.e. around 1.5 deg C/doubled CO2.):",3_1
"Professor Ray Bates gave a paper in Moscow in summer 2015 in which he concluded, based on the analysis by Lindzen & Choi (2009, 2011) (Fig. T10), that temperature feedbacks are net-negative. Accordingly, he supports the conclusion both by Lindzen & Choi (1990) (Fig. T11) and by Spencer & Braswell (2010, 2011) that climate sensitivity is below and perhaps considerably below 1 C per CO2 doubling.",3_1
"Using satellite observations interpreted with a simple model, Spencers data support negative feedback (or cooling) better than they support positive feedback.",3_1
A team of scientists recently released a report debunking the IPCC prediction that there would be a massive die-off of ocean plankton due to ocean acidification. That??s not happening either.,3_2
"The same can be said of most of the other species on the planet. The Ice Age Megafauna survived the stresses of many Ice Age cycles, until the Upper Paleolithic human hunters came along and added a new stress. The Ice Age Megafauna had evolved and survived in tandem with the Ice Ages, and it doesn't appear likely that ""climate change' made them go extinct.",3_2
"This is a heat-loving amoeba. As water temperatures go up, it does better. In future decades, as temperatures rise, wed expect to see more cases.",3_2
"The authors write that ""woody species are predicted to increase in tundra ecosystems as a result of global climate change (Chapin et al ., 1996; Epstein et al ., 2000),"" and, in fact, it has been found that in response to rising air temperatures, ""trees have established where they did not previously occur, both in alpine areas (Wardle and Coleman, 1992; Peterson, 1994; Kullman, 2001, 2002), and in arctic tundra (Lescop-Sinclair and Payette, 1995; Danby and Hik, 2007),"" while ""increasing shrub abundance also has been reported in alpine (Klanderud and Birks, 2003) and arctic locations (Sturm et al ., 2001; Tape et al ., 2006; Wilson and Nilsson, 2009).""",3_2
"In the words of the eight scientists involved in the study, ""the observed association between shrub cover types and increased NDVI is generally consistent with the concept that woody plants can take advantage of warmer conditions and grow more vigorously."" Reviewed 28 November 2012",3_2
"So the third claim is not true either. Atolls are created by sea level rise, not destroyed by sea level rise.",3_2
"In discussing the roles of wave exposure, local currents and the presence of large sand islands, the seven scientists state that it is the combination of those factors -- and ""not temperature"" -- that ""is the primary factor influencing biogeographic distributions along the subtropical east coast of Australia."" And supporting this conclusion is the contemporaneous study of Seabra et al . (2011) , which describes how it is that intertidal marine species can easily withstand significant climatic warming without having to migrate poleward. Reference",3_2
"A recent paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change , reported in The Australian, showed Zooxanthellae the symbiotic organisms that live inside corals can adapt much better to warming water than was previously thought It is also known corals can, to a degree, change their Zooxanthellae with changing conditions. ( source )",3_2
"(3) Coral tissue thickness, often seen as an indicator of coral health, is generally higher for corals in hotter water. Some of the highest tissue thickness measured have occur around PNG where the water is far hotter than the GBR.",3_2
"Van Woesik et al . write that their findings suggest that the ecosystem they studied was ""able to absorb the thermal stressors without undergoing change to a less desirable state,"" citing the similar findings of Holling (1973) and Scheffer and Carpenter (2003),"" as well as the fact that "" Acropora populations had fully recovered seven years after an extreme thermal-stress event in Palau (Golbuu et al ., 2007),"" plus the fact that in the Arabian Gulf, ""Riegl and Purkis (2009) showed that Acropora assemblages could recover from thermal-stress cycles occurring every fifteen years.""",3_2
"The results of this study demonstrate that the biosphere can -- and does! -- respond to rapid changes in climate. Indeed, the group of 15 authors state that ""the biosphere was a full participant in these rapid fluctuations, contrary to widely held views that vegetation is unable to change with such rapidity."" Furthermore, warmer was always better in terms of vegetative productivity. Thus, future warming in this region may return this area to more favorable conditions.",3_2
"Noting that ""in summer, 51 of 65 breeding species had negative slopes of mass against year, 20 of 26 wintering species had negative slopes, 60 of 83 spring migrants had negative slopes, and 66 of 75 autumn migrants had negative slopes,"" Van Buskirk et al . conclude that their results ""offer compelling evidence that climate change has already produced observable adaptive shifts in morphology, behavior, and phenology of a great many species,"" as, we might add, birds do what they need to do to successfully cope with the climate changes they encounter, which according to the world's climate alarmists have been unprecedented over the past one to two millennia. Yes, birds do it ... and they do it fast , and they do it well .",3_2
"Lets also keep in mind that coastal sealife are routinely subjected to dramatically changing conditions including pH, temperature, salinity and turbidity and they survive.",3_2
"In the concluding words of Caruso et al ., ""the rapidity and the widespread extent of these changes across so many species in a biodiversity hotspot may signal rapid adaptation to novel environmental conditions.""",3_2
Shock News : Polar Bears Surviving An Ice-Free Hudson Bay,3_2
"Of course this isnt news, as Ive previously reported: Polar Bears Survived the Ice Free Arctic",3_2
"""We see reason for concern, but find no reliable evidence to support the contention that polar bears are currently experiencing a climate crisis,"" Canadian scientists wrote in their study, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.",3_2
"???In the 1950s the polar bear population up north was estimated at 5,000. Today it??s 20- to 25,000, a number that has either held steady over the last 20 years or has risen slightly. In Canada, the manager of wildlife resources for the Nunavut territory of Canada has found that the population there has increased by 25 percent.??",3_2
"Baffin Bay population. The IUCN says that the initial estimate (1984-1989) for this subpopulation was 300 to 600 bears. A second survey (1993 to 1997) estimated this declining population to be 2,074 bears. Please note that the previous two sentences are not the result of some bizarre typo. The extremely low initial numbers were presumably due to a flawed methodology (data collected in the spring in which the capture effort was restricted to shore-fast ice and the floe edge off northeast Baffin Island while recent work has shown that an unknown proportion of the subpopulation is typically offshore during the spring) How can the IUCN confidently conclude that this subpopulation is decreasing? Because the current (2004) estimate based on simulations is that the population is 1,600 bears. The reason for the decline is that the subpopulation appears to be substantially over-harvested. One of the reasons that it is over-harvested is that in 2004 Nunavut increased its hunting quota from 64 to 105 bears per year because reports from Inuit hunters that polar bear numbers in BB had grown substantially. Note that nowhere in this Orwellian story is the decrease in the Baffin Bay polar bear population blamed on receding summer ice due to global warming.",3_2
"Based on many decades of evidence, the Inuit declare it is the time of the most polar bears. In contrast, reports of the polar bear decline have been based on cherry-picked shortterm trends. Here are some longerterm trends to put polar bear population fluctuations into perspective:",3_2
"Polar bear expert Susan Crockford marked the 40th anniversary of an international agreement to protect polar bears by publishing 10 good reasons not to worry about climate change impacts on the Arctic predator.Among the reasons not to be concerned, Crockford notes that only one polar bear subpopulation has had a statistically significant decline in recent years.Another reason, Crockford observed, is sea ice extent during the spring gorging period remains virtually unchanged, with most sea ice decline occuring during the less important late summer.Crockford's full article is available here.",3_2
"Then there is Dr. Susan J. Crockford, an evolutionary biologist in British Columbia, who has studied polar bears for most of her 35-year career. She claims polar bears are threatened by too much ice. Shes released a new, in-depth report on the relationship between sea ice and polar bears, entitled Arctic Fallacybut you dont see her conclusions touted in the New York Times .",3_2
"Also, the bear count did not take into account the fact that polar bears can just move to other areas if their food supply is limited, Crockford told CNSNews.com.If some of those bears were part of that count, it would look like they died.",3_2
"Regarding the models used to predict the future for polar bears, remember that Steven Amstrup, who is now a full time spokesperson for Polar Bears International , was the only polar bear expert consulted about how polar bears might respond to the sea ice changes generated by climate models. As Ive pointed out previously ( here and here ), Amstrup appears to have been wrong, at least as far as his predictions on polar bear responses to declines in summer sea ice (July-September) are concerned.",3_2
CO2 has been claimed to be the driver for coral reef dies off (and almost every other problem). This report is debunks the theory in the case of Caribbean coral reefs.,3_2
"Hot on the heels of the frogs not being killed off by climate change debacle (see here ), The Australian reports that the barrier reef has the ability to adapt to changes in climate. Why this comes as a shock to anyone is beyond me, given that parts of the reef are millions of years old and would have gone through multiple ice ages, multiple interglacials, multiple climate optima and goodness knows what else, yet its still there.",3_2
"Other peer-reviewed publications have demonstrated that prior claims about ecological effects from ocean acidification have been overblown , increased CO2 dissolution in the oceans increases calcification of shellfish and coral, and that corals evolved at a time when CO2 levels were 15 times higher than the present.",3_2
the concentration of enough CO2 to significantly reduce the oceans pH will not come from the atmosphere;,3_2
"A paper published today in Biogeosciences finds that prior claims about the effects of ocean ""acidification"" on c alcifying plankton are highly exaggerated because the artificial laboratory conditions utilized do not correctly simulate the effects in naturalseawater. The authors find exposure of the plankton to ""acidific ation"" from elevated CO2 concentrations of up to 3247 ppm had no effect on the life cycle (population density, growth and reproduction) of calcifying plankton when natural buffering sediment was present in the experiment.",3_2
"It??s highly unlikely the atmospheric levels of CO2 will reach 1,000 ppm in the next couple of centuries, but if they did, it appears that at least one major and widespread species of cold water coral can adapt within six months. Co2 feeds plant life above the water, and atmospheric levels were much higher during the time that corals evolved. That doesn??t guarantee anything, but suggests scientists could have been more cautious in predicting a disaster when they didn??t have the data.",3_2
"Changing Waters: Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, who has since left, gives four succinct reasons why we should not fear that enhanced CO2 will cause the so-called ocean acidification and it is not a threat to creatures in the oceans: 1) higher concentrations of CO2 in the past; 2) buffering from elements such as calcium and magnesium; 3) biology of mollusks allow them to survive in freshwater that is quite acidic and 4) adding CO2 to saltwater aquariums promotes plant and coral growth. See links under Acidic Waters.",3_2
"First, the ocean seems to becoming slightly less basic not more acidic. Next, the change is happening slow enough that marine life should be able to adapt, through natural selection if necessary. Warmists do believe in evolution, right? Finally, in this experiment, squid eggs were simply hatched in a tank with a 3-time less basic pH level anticipated in 100 years i.e., no chance for natural selection to operate.",3_2
"Writing of corals, the authors say ""it has been shown that it is possible for colonies to acclimatize to increased temperatures and high irradiance levels so that they are able to resist bleaching events when they occur."" And they note, in this regard, that ""threshold temperatures that induce coral bleaching-related mortality vary worldwide -- from 27??C in Easter Island (Wellington et al ., 2001) to 36??C in the Arabian Gulf (Riegl, 1999) -- according to the maximum water temperatures that are normal in the area, implying a capacity of corals and/or zooxanthellae to acclimatize to high temperatures depending on their environment.""",3_2
"While eco-alarmists would have you believe the oceans have ""acidified"" to dangerous pH levels, a paper published in Nature finds that the modern ocean pH of about 8.1-8.2 is actually the most alkaline the oceans have been over the past 250 million years. During this time corals, phytoplankton, and indeed most of the ocean biomass have evolved. The paper shows a mean pH of about 7.7 over the past 250 million years, whereas the alarmist and frequently incorrect IPCC predicts ocean pH will drop to 7.88 (~0.2 pH units) under a ""business as usual"" scenario by 2100.",3_2
"The effects on calcification rates for all 18 species were either negligible or positive up to 606 ppm CO2. Corals, in particular seemed to like more CO2 in their diets",3_2
"Pia Heinemann reports in Die Welt today, Ocean Acidification Does Not Lead To Species Die-Off ,on a new study appearing in the latest edition of Science. The study contradicts the assumption that ocean acidification leads to species die-off, surprising scientists. Abstract in Science here",3_2
"This is the rst study showing a positive response in calcication to increasing pCO2 for the predominant reef-forming cold-water coral L. pertusa and, to our knowledge, for scleractinian corals in general. **",3_2
"In light of the above-described findings plus their many previous findings that acidity drives divergence in embryonic acid stress tolerance and larval life-history traits (Rasanen et al ., 2003; Hangartner et al ., 2011; Hangartner et al ., 2012a,b), Egea-Serrano et al . feel confident in concluding that their results ""provide strong evidence for simultaneous adaptation to acidic pH and increased invertebrate predator pressure in acidified ponds, whereby changes in the abiotic environment (pH) increase strength of selection via biotic interactions (predation).""",3_2
"A paper published today in Global Change Biology finds that prior papers about the alleged effect ofocean acidificationon marine organisms are overblown because prior research has failed to consider that organisms can adapt over time to pH changes. According to the authors, nearly all of this work has focused on the effects of future conditions on modern populations, neglecting the role of adaptation.",3_2
The ocean acidification story depends only on a chemical hypothesis whereas biological factors can overcome this and create conditions that allow calcification to continue. This is corroborated by the historical record of millions of years of success in much higher CO2 environments.,3_2
"This latter result, although seemingly strange, is anything but unusual; for the nine researchers report that various taxa of coccolithophores and sea urchins ""show enhanced calcification in environments with higher pCO 2 ,"" citing the work of Iglesias-Rodriguez et al . (2008), Doney et al . (2009) and Ries et al . (2009). And they say that ""different populations of Emiliania huxleyi have shown decreased, increased, or unchanged calcification in response to higher pCO 2 ,"" citing Fabry (2008).",3_2
"They also estimate past pH of the oceans to have been more alkaline than now, even though no measurements were made at that time, and then they proclaim the contrivance to be a fact of science. All biology controls pH in extreme ways and has very wide tolerance for pH in environmentswide meaning several pH units, not the tenths being argued. For example, respiration generates ATP by creating a hydrogen ion dam and allowing the escaping protons to turn proteins.",3_2
"Effects of Seawater Acidification on Phytoplankton Growth Rates (22 Feb 2011) Results indicated that marine phytoplankton are resistant to climate change in terms of ocean acidification, and do not increase or decrease their growth rates according to ecological relevant ranges of pH and free CO2"" ... Read More",3_2
"The next item is the dangerously acidic oceans. As a chemist, I think dangerously acidic is a strong acid (usually mineral acid) with a concentration that gets the pH below 2. The climate scientists seem to think that dangerously acidic is above 8, which us stupid chemists believe is basic. The article has the standard 26% more acidic, which represents a pH change of about 0.1 unit. Under this definition of more acidic, a decrease in pH from 13 to 12.9 is about an increase in acidity of 26%.",3_2
"The six scientists determined that even following a reduction in seawater pH to 7.4, ""the photosynthetic capacity of the symbiosis was preserved."" And they say that ""this along with the unaffected anemone respiration rates indicated that the metabolic relationship was also preserved.""",3_2
"The researchers at Woods Hole have spent four years doing a comprehensive study at Palau Rock Islands in the far Western Pacific, where pH levels are naturally ???more acidic?? (which is big-government speak for less alkaline ). Because of laboratory experiments Barkley et al expected to find all kinds of detrimental effects, but instead found a diverse healthy system they describe as ???thriving?? with ???greater coral cover?? and more ???species??.",3_2
"???Surprisingly, in Palau where the pH is lowest, we see a coral community that hosts more species, and has greater coral cover than in the sites where pH is normal,?? says Anne Cohen, a co-author on the study and Barkley??s advisor at WHOI. ???That??s not to say the coral community is thriving because of it, rather it is thriving despite the low pH, and we need to understand how.??",3_2
"It is not carbon dioxide from burning coal that pollutes the skies of Asia and Africa. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a naturally occurring, clean, invisible, beneficial gas. CO2 is an essential part of the natural world but a very minor trace constituent of our atmosphere.",3_3
Carbon dioxide is vital to all life on Earth because no vegetation can exist without it.,3_3
"The two researchers report that ""across all studies, parental e CO 2 increased subsequent germination by 9%,"" and that ""despite a considerable interspecific variability,"" they found ""a positive correlation between germination success and seed mass responses to parental e CO 2 ,"" with the response being ""significantly higher in trees than in other life forms."" What it means",3_3
"Clearly, elevated O 3 has a number of significant negative impacts on the well-being of North America's most widely distributed tree species, while elevated CO 2 has a number of significant positive impacts. In addition, elevated CO 2 often completely eliminates the negative impacts of elevated O 3 . Hence, if the tropospheric O 3 concentration continues to rise in the future - and it is indeed expected to do so (the authors note that ""damaging O 3 concentrations currently occur over 29% of the world's temperate and subpolar forests but are predicted to affect fully 60% by 2100"") - we had better hope that the air's CO 2 content continues to rise as well. Without it, we will be in a world of hurt; for the authors report that ""since the mid-1990s, aspen use has increased almost exponentially in the US Great Lakes Region and in the boreal mixed wood region of Canada, where the resource is now almost fully utilized.""",3_3
"Jin et al . write that the bioavailability of iron to terrestrial plants ""is often limited (Guerinot and Yi, 1994), particularly in calcareous soils, which represent 30% of the earth's surface (Imsande, 1998),"" and they thus conclude that ""Fe nutrition in plants is likely to be affected by the continued elevation of atmospheric CO 2 , which, in turn, will affect crop production."" And as their work strongly suggests, those important effects should be highly beneficial, while even wider biospheric benefits are suggested by the work of Sasaki et al . (1998), who have demonstrated that both the ferric reductase activity and Fe uptake capacity of the marine alga Chlorococcum littorale cultured in Fe-limited media have been significantly enhanced by elevated CO 2 concentrations. References",3_3
"It was determined, according to Sefcik et al ., that ""the magnitude of enhancement from exposure to elevated CO 2 was similar for both shade-tolerance groups,"" with the elevated CO 2 treatment increasing the mean light-saturated net photosynthetic rate by 63% in the shade-tolerant species and by 67% in the shade-intolerant species. More importantly, however, they found that ""seedlings grown in deep shade, regardless of shade-tolerance group, showed a greater long-term photosynthetic enhancement to elevated CO 2 than those grown in moderate shade,"" with the mean long-term enhancement being 47% in moderate shade and a whopping 97% in deep shade. What it means",3_3
"Although elevated CO 2 did not significantly increase total seedling biomass, it did increase it by 14% when averaged across all temperature and fertilization regimes. However, elevated temperature did significantly increase seedling biomass by 55%, when averaged across all CO 2 and fertilization treatments, as did fertilization, by 157%, when averaging across all CO 2 and temperature levels. With respect to root exudation, a similar pattern emerged. Elevated CO 2 did not significantly increase total dissolved organic carbon compounds exuded from seedling roots over a 24-hour period, yet plants grown in elevated CO 2 exuded 20% more such compounds than ambiently-grown plants did, when averaged across all temperature and fertilization treatments. And once again, elevated temperature and fertilization significantly increased root exudation by 71 and 55%, respectively, when averaged across the other main effect variables.",3_3
"Soil microorganisms hold a key position in terrestrial ecosystems, as they mineralize organic matter and make its nitrogen available for use by plants. Hence, it is encouraging to note, in the words of the authors, ""that elevated CO 2 will enhance below-ground C- and N-cycling in grasslands,"" even nutrient- poor grasslands, such as the one they studied. Reference",3_3
"Gutierrez et al .'s findings are perhaps best summed up by the title of their paper: ""Acclimation to future atmospheric CO 2 levels increases photochemical efficiency and mitigates photochemistry inhibition by warm temperatures in wheat."" They report, for example, that net photosynthesis was increased by 62-72% in both years in the CO 2 -enriched chambers; while at the conclusion of the growing season, total plant biomass production in the CO 2 -enriched chambers was increased by 12-18%. What it means",3_3
"Two years later, Bunce (2005), grew soybean plants from seed to maturity out-of-doors in open-top chambers exposed to normal precipitation while continuously fumigating them with either ambient air (AC) or with air enriched with an extra 350 ppm of CO 2 either 24 hours per day (ECdn) or 14 hours per day centered on solar noon (ECd) for a total of four entire growing seasons . And this sustained effort, in Bunce's words, revealed that ""ECdn increased seed yield by an average of 62% over the four years compared with the ambient CO 2 treatment, while ECd increased seed yield by 34%,"" indicative of the fact that the CO 2 -induced yield enhancement in the 24-hour CO 2 enrichment treatment was almost twice as great as that of the daylight-only CO 2 enrichment treatment.",3_3
"In controlled environmental conditions, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment significantly increased the size and biomass of plantlets, thus reducing the time required to produce propagules for transplanting into commercial potato fields. Although economic costs of CO 2 enrichment were not considered in this study, commercial collaborators involved in the research were ""pleased with the CO 2 enrichment results.""",3_3
"Elevated CO 2 increased the average steady-state photosynthetic rates of four hardwood understory saplings by 60 and 40% under high and low light conditions, respectively. In going from shaded to lighted conditions, elevated CO 2 had no effect on photosynthetic induction, with ambient and CO 2 -enriched species both reaching 90% of their maximal transient photosynthetic rates at approximately the same time. However, in going from lighted to shaded conditions, elevated CO 2 extended the time during which maximal rates of photosynthesis were maintained. Thus, elevated CO 2 slowed the rate of photosynthetic decline caused by the onset of shading. Consequently, shaded leaves of CO 2 -enriched saplings maintained greater rates of photosynthesis for longer periods of time than did shaded leaves of saplings growing in ambient air, which allowed the CO 2 -enriched leaves to sequester greater amounts of carbon than was expected from photosynthetic measurements made under steady-state conditions.",3_3
"The minimum acceptable value for plants is not that much below the 270 ppm preindustrial value. It is possible that this is not enough, that we are better off with our current level, and would be better off with more still. There is evidence that California orange groves are about 30 percent more productive today than they were 150 years ago because of the increase of atmospheric CO2.",3_3
"Increasing the air temperature by 2C increased ecosystem evapotranspiration ; but the imposition of twice-ambient atmospheric CO 2 concentrations reduced this impact of the temperature increase while simultaneously enhancing ecosystem net primary production. Thus, ecosystem water-use efficiency rose under conditions of simultaneously-elevated air temperature and CO 2 concentration. In addition, the air temperature increase had little effect on soil organic carbon content, boosting it by only 1%. Doubling the atmospheric CO 2 concentration, on the other hand, increased soil carbon storage by 5%; and when both air temperature and CO 2 concentration were increased together, the simulated increase in soil carbon content was a full 10%. What it means",3_3
"As for that CO2 ""pollution,"" there is some other good unreported news for farmers, families, and forest creatures. Satellite images reveal a widespread increase of CO2-fertilized greening over 25% to 50% of the ""global vegetated area"" over the past 35 years.",3_3
"With respect to the first of these findings, Laurance et al . conclude that ""the increasing forest dynamics, growth and basal area observed are broadly consistent with the CO 2 fertilization hypothesis,"" while with respect to the second finding they say that ""tree mortality peaked, and tree recruitment and growth declined during atypically wet periods,"" and that ""tree growth was fastest during dry periods, when reduced cloudiness might have increased available solar radiation."" Consequently, it would appear that the historical increase in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, has been good for the Amazon's trees, and (very likely) for the rest of the region's plants and animals, even in the face of the local warming of 0.26C per decade that they report for the region since the mid-1970s. References",3_3
"As the concentration of CO 2 in the atmosphere continues to rise, yellow birch seedlings should exhibit increased rates of net photosynthesis, even at higher temperatures, thereby facilitating increased biomass production. With more CO 2 in the air, the beneficial reduction in transpiration and the concomitant rise in water-use efficiency may allow this species to expand its range southward into regions where high summer temperatures and limited rainfall currently discourage its presence. Similarly, yellow birch may also expand northwards, as the additional CO 2 may make seedlings more tolerant to freezing temperatures. Reviewed 1 November 1998",3_3
"A review paper published in Climate Research finds an increase of CO2 fertilization of 300 ppm would enhance productivity of the world's major crops by 34%- 40%. The paper adds to many other peer-reviewed publications finding, contrary to claims of climate alarmists , that increased CO2 will be a boon to agricultural productivity , as well as confer resistance ofrainforeststo climate change.",3_3
"This was from a paper from CSIRO last year, Impact of CO2 fertilization on maximum foliage cover across the globes warm, arid environments , which shows just how much foliage cover has increased across most parts of the world since 1982.",3_3
"Against this backdrop, Ghasemzadeh and Jaafar grew leaf and rhizome extracts from two Malaysian young ginger varieties (Halia Bentong and Halia Bara) under ambient (400 ppm) and elevated (800 ppm) atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, studying their antioxidant and in vitro anticancer activities against two human cancer cell lines (MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231). According to the two Malaysian researchers who conducted the analysis, the antioxidant activities of the leaf and rhizome extracts were increased significantly by the elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentration; and they found that the greatest enhancement was observed in the leaf extract. In addition, they say their results showed strong inhibitory activity of Malaysian young ginger varieties on human breast cancer cells, indicating that some compounds in Malaysian young ginger varieties possess anticancer activities and may contribute to the therapeutic effect of this medicinal herb.",3_3
"The EPA regulations are said to be necessary to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2) which the Greens deem to be a pollutant in our atmosphere. It is not a pollutant, despite a Supreme Court decision that identifies it as such, but rather a gas vital to all life on Earth, used by all vegetation for its growth. CO2 is to vegetation what oxygen is to all animal life. Humans, all seven billion of us, exhale CO2!",3_3
"The five researchers report that both theory and experiments suggest that over the past several decades ""plant photosynthesis should have increased in response to increasing CO 2 concentrations, causing increased plant growth and forest biomass."" And in this regard they find that ""long-term plot data collectively indicate an increase in carbon storage, as well as significant increases in tree growth, mortality, recruitment, and forest dynamism."" They also say that satellite measurements ""indicate increases in productivity and forest dynamism,"" and that five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, incorporating plant physiology, competition, and dynamics, all predict increasing gross primary productivity, net primary productivity, and carbon storage when forced using late-twentieth century climate and atmospheric CO 2 concentration data."" In addition, they state that ""the predicted increases in carbon storage via the differing methods are all of similar magnitude (0.2% to 0.5% per year)."" What it means",3_3
"The first reason would be to discuss how the rising atmospheric concentration of CO2 a result primarily of the burning of fossil fuels to produce energy is a growing benefit to plant life. This is an appropriate discussion in a dietary context as atmospheric CO2 is a fertilizer that promotes healthier, more productive plants, including crops used directly as food for humans or indirectly as animal feed. It has been estimated that from the atmospheric CO2 enrichment to date, total crop production as increased by 10-15 percent. This is a positive and beneficial outcome and one that most certainly should be included in any discussion of the role of greenhouse gases emissions in diet and nutrition but is inexplicably lacking from such discussion in the DGAC report.",3_3
"The results of this model study of ecosystem response to elevated air temperature and atmospheric CO 2 enrichment in a high-elevation Rocky Mountain watershed are typical of what is found in nearly all ecosystems: improved water quality, enhanced plant water use efficiency, and higher levels of vegetative productivity, all of which consequences lead to greater plant populations and ecosystem biodiversity.",3_3
"In concluding, the five researchers say ""it is possible, therefore, to enhance the biomass yield of this green manuring crop by elevating the level of CO 2 in the plant canopy."" One low-tech way of doing so is suggested by their statement that ""plant residues decomposing on the soil surface following mulching may help elevate the level of CO 2 and thus the plant growth,"" while we suggest that a longer-term strategy would be for the nations of the earth to not overtly strive to reduce anthropogenic CO 2 emissions associated with the burning of fossil fuels; for CO 2 is ""the elixir of life.""",3_3
"The Sun that nurtures us will eventually incinerate the Earth. According to an article in PNAS, Earth's entire biota are threatened by the eventual loss of atmospheric carbon dioxide. You see CO 2 is plant food and without it there are no plants. Without plants there are no animals, and that includes human beings (assuming we manage to survive until then). The eventual death of the planetary biosphere due to lack of carbon dioxide tells us some things about the current CO 2 induced global warming hysteria. As S. Franck, C. Bounama, and W. von Bloh put it in Causes and timing of future biosphere extinction in Biogeosciences Discussions :",3_3
"In the first place, it explicitly takes no account of any future developments in bio-engineering and genetic modification, which are likely to enable farmers to plant drought-resistant crops designed to thrive at warmer temperatures, should these occur. Second, and equally important, it takes no account whatever of another effect of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide, and one which is more certain and better documented than the warming effect. Namely, the stimulus to plant growth: what the scientists call the ""fertilisation effect"". Over the past 30 years or so, the earth has become observably greener, and this has even affected most parts of the Sahel. It is generally agreed that a major contributor to this has been the growth in atmospheric CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels.",3_3
"Fact 3. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is beneficial. In increasing quantity it causes mild though diminishing warming (useful at a time of a quiet sun and likely near-future planetary cooling) and acts as a valuable plant fertiliser. Extra carbon dioxide helps to shrink the Sahara Desert, green the planet and feed the world. Ergo, carbon dioxide is neither a pollutant nor dangerous, but an environmental benefit.",3_3
"The scientists begin their article noting that Growth of plants under elevated CO2 frequently leads to increased growth rates, but that was not the focus of their study. Many others have grown tobacco in elevated CO2 and confirmed that tobacco, like virtually every other plant in the world, benefits from higher concentrations of CO2. Matros et al. made a series of measurements on how elevated CO2 impacts nicotine, and they conclude that Cultivation of tobacco plants at elevated CO2 leads to a marked decrease of nicotine, the major nitrogen-rich secondary metabolite in tobacco at lower nitrogen supply and At higher nitrogen supply, nicotine content was not further influenced by CO2. See, if you are trying to quit smoking, elevated CO2 is your friend and it generally acts to lower the nicotine level of the plants!",3_3
CO2-Related Genotypic Variation in White Spruce (5 Apr 2011) Observations suggest that highly-CO2-responsive genotypes of a wide variety of earths plants -- from food crops to lumber crops -- could well be selected to take advantage of their genetic ability to optimize their growth in response to projected future increases in the airs CO2 content ... Read More,3_3
"Simply said, there is no need whatever to reduce CO2 emissions. Carbon dioxide is not ""a pollutant"" as the EPA claims. It is, along with oxygen for all living creatures, vital to the growth of all vegetation. The more CO2 the better crops yields will occur, healthier forests, and greener lawns. From a purely scientific point of view, it is absurd to reduce emissions.",3_3
"Elevated soil moisture had little influence on wheat yield, regardless of atmospheric CO 2 and O 3 concentrations. Elevated O 3 concentrations, however, negatively influenced wheat yield at both atmospheric CO 2 concentrations. Nevertheless, grain yield was always higher for plants grown at the elevated CO 2 concentration. Indeed, elevated CO 2 increased grain yield by 21, 7 and 11%, respectively, for each of the three years of the study, indicating that elevated CO 2 concentrations ameliorated some of the negative impacts of O 3 -induced damage on grain yield.",3_3
"Elevated CO 2 did not significantly impact vegetative growth in three of these weedy species. For Spergula arvensis , however, atmospheric CO 2 enrichment increased maximum leaf length by an average of 15%, regardless of light treatment, and total dry weight by 20 and 68% at full and reduced light levels, respectively. Similarly, elevated CO 2 significantly enhanced reproductive success in only one of these species, by increasing the number of seeds in Poa annua by 50 and 26% at full and reduced light levels, respectively. Thus, CO 2 -induced increases in vegetative biomass do not necessarily lead to increases in reproductive biomass, and CO 2 -induced increases in reproductive biomass do not need to be preceded by increases in vegetative biomass. In contrast to the limited significant effects of elevated CO 2 on vegetative and reproductive growth, reduced light nearly always caused significant decreases in plant vegetative and reproductive success. Moreover, the negative effects of reduced light on these parameters were typically much stronger than any positive effect resulting from atmospheric CO 2 enrichment. Total plant dry weights, for example, decreased by 32 to 62%, depending upon species, when grown in reduced, rather than in full light, while atmospheric CO 2 enrichment only increased total plant dry weights by 2 to 30%. What it means",3_3
"As the air's CO 2 content continues to rise, poplar trees will likely exhibit increases in growth that will shorten the time from planting to harvest and enhance their importance in the agro-forestry market. Also, with greater productivity and biomass production, significantly more carbon will be sequestered within the woody components of poplar trees and the soils in which they grow, helping to slow the rate of rise of the air's CO 2 content. Thus, the use of Populus species in managed tree plantations would appear to be a promising and prudent cultural practice for future foresters.",3_3
"First off, plant height, leaf number, leaf area, fresh weight, and dry weight all increased in the elevated CO 2 treatments with respect to values obtained under ambient conditions, regardless of the length of CO 2 exposure (see Table 1 below). Leaf stomatal conductance also benefited at the higher CO 2 level, being reduced by nearly 50% by the end of the 10-week experiment.",3_3
"Where are the defences of bristlecones as valid proxies in tree ring terms? While we??ve pointed out a number of possible mechanisms for fertilization in the 20th century, the most prominent theory is CO2 fertilization The usual mechanism by which CO2 fertilization is hypothesized to lead to increased ring widths is through increased water use efficiency. Water use efficiency changes are studied in a series of remarkable articles by Xiahung Feng of Dartmouth, of which Tang, Feng and Funkhouser is notable. ""Plant water use efficiency"" was defined by Farquhar et al 1989 (cited by Tang et al) as the ratio of net carbon fixed to the total water cost. The connection between CO2 fertilization and increased water use efficiency (W) is summarized by Tang et al. as follows:",3_3
"Among other things, Pardos et al . report that seedling relative growth rate rose 2.2-fold when going from the lowest to the highest combined light-water treatment in the elevated CO 2 environment, but only 1.6-fold when doing so in the ambient CO 2 environment. In addition, they say that ""cork oak showed particularly large increases in biomass in response to elevated CO 2 under low-watered and high-illuminated conditions."" What it means",3_3
"Ameye et al . conclude that ""if soil moisture is adequate, trees will experience negative effects in photosynthetic performance only with the occurrence of extreme heat waves."" And in light of the fact that ""elevated CO 2 diminished these negative effects,"" they opine that ""the future climate may not be as detrimental to plant communities as previously assumed.""",3_3
"When I hear concerns about soil erosion, I always think about my grandma. She was an amazing woman. She grew up in Huron in the heart of the Great Depression, which just happened to coincide with the Dust Bowl. Growing up, my sister and I listened to her stories of dealing with the dust storms, stuffing rags in the window sills and the cracks around the doors in an attempt to keep the dust out of the house. Despite her best efforts, a fine film of dust would still cover the interior of the house.The dust from the Dust Bowl claimed crops, cattle, and the lives of two children in Huron. To this day, when contractors cut into houses that survived the Dust Bowl, they find sand in between the interior and exterior walls. The Dust Bowl eroded more than the soil; it eroded a way of life.Erosion is a problem that persists to this day, and it's responsible for dust storms, mudslides and sinkholes. Fortunately, plants in forests, grasslands, and everywhere else set roots in the soil and help the soil stay put, and plants around the globe are getting a boost from increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.Although many people, spurred by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, think ""going green"" means using less carbon dioxide, plants prefer just the opposite.We all know plants need carbon dioxide to breathe, but many don't know plants turn that carbon dioxide into carbon in the form of the roots, stems, trunks, branches, leaves, and fruit with which we are more familiar. And according to a new study by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, the more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the greener the planet gets.The report, Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts, published by The Heartland Institute (where I am a research fellow), cites thousands of peer-reviewed studies rising atmospheric CO2 levels are helping almost all plants grow bigger, become more efficient in using water, and better withstand the stress of high air temperature.In a way, this CO2 enrichment of the atmosphere is to plants like an oxygen mask is to a winded football player helping to prepare him for the next play.More CO2 in the atmosphere also means plants start to grow in places they couldn't before, reducing the amount of erosion and, consequently, dust in the air in places around the globe, while increasing the potential for agriculture and wildlife habitat as the range of certain plant species expands.Increased levels of CO2 also have been found to increase the fine-root density in some plants by up to 184 percent, and a 55 percent increase in above ground biomass despite water and nutrition limitations meaning plants become better at anchoring the soil in place and allowing water to permeate the surface, which is especially important during droughts.This would have been great news for my grandma and everyone else who survived the Dust Bowl. Improved farming techniques have played an important part in reducing the amount of erosion around the world, and these efforts certainly will be helped by having more CO2 in the atmosphere. Instead of being a detriment to plant growth, more CO2 acts as a fertilizer, making plants grow bigger, faster, more resilient, and more abundant, greening the world we live in.",3_3
"At a fundamental level, carbon dioxide is the basis of nearly all life on Earth, as it is the primary raw material or food that is utilized by plants to produce the organic matter out of which they construct their tissues.",3_3
"The answer is as simple as not interfering with the historical and still-ongoing increase in the atmosphere's CO 2 concentration, since this latter phenomenon dramatically increases the water use efficiencies of essentially all agricultural crops -- see Water Use Efficiency (Agricultural Species) in our Subject Index -- thereby enabling farmers to produce ever-increasing quantities of the vast array of grains, fruits and vegetables, as well as animal feed crops, upon which the inhabitants of all nations of the earth ultimately depend for their sustenance, all of which can be accomplished without the need to extract ever greater quantities of ever-more-difficult-to-obtain water from earth's soils.",3_3
"Typically, a doubling of the airs CO2 content above present-day concentrations raises the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third; this positive response occurs in plants that utilize all three of the major biochemical pathways of photosynthesis.",3_3
"Regardless of atmospheric oxygen concentration, shoots of both mint and thyme exposed to elevated CO 2 produced substantially more biomass than shoots grown at 350 ppm CO 2 . At an ambient O 2 concentration of 21%, for example, CO 2 -enriched shoots of mint and thyme attained fresh weights that were 3.1- and 5.8-fold greater, respectively, than those reached by shoots exposed to ambient O 2 and CO 2 concentrations. What it means",3_3
"LaDeau and Clark determined that ""carbon dioxide enrichment affected mean cone production both through early maturation and increased fecundity,"" so that ""trees in the elevated CO 2 plots produced twice as many cones between 1998 and 2004 as trees in the ambient plots."" They also report finding that trees grown in elevated CO 2 ""made the transition to reproductive maturation at smaller diameters,"" and that they ""not only reached reproductive maturation at smaller diameters, but also at younger ages."" By 2004, for example, they say that ""roughly 50% of ambient trees and 75% of fumigated trees produced cones."" In addition, they observed that ""22% of the trees in high CO 2 produced between 40 and 100 cones during the study, compared with only 9% of ambient trees."" What it means",3_3
"The four researchers report that their data indicated that for both maize and grain sorghum, there was a ""maintenance of relatively high canopy photosynthetic rates in the face of decreased transpiration rates resulted in enhanced water use efficiency when these plants were grown at elevated CO 2 of 720 ppm, but not at 360 ppm."" And as a result, they demonstrated that ""both plants maintained growth better at double-ambient CO 2 than their counterparts at ambient CO 2 in the presence of drought,"" such that reductions in total above-ground biomass due to drought were 42% for maize and 36% for sorghum at ambient CO 2 , but only 18% for maize and 14% for sorghum at double-ambient CO 2 .",3_3
"But such infinitesimal estimates of averted global warming would only apply, of course, if Kyoto's signatories actually complied with its provisions. They are finding it virtually impossible to even do that.",4_2
36: Wind and solar are unreliable. 37: They can only replace a small fraction of our energy need. 38: Todays economy runs on inexpensive energy. 39: To grow the economy we will need to use fossil fuels to generate extra wealth. 40: We will need to burn more fossil fuels to find replacements for fossil fuels.,4_4
"The economics also work against a major transformation in the technology of producing power, either mobile or stationary. Coal is cheap. Natural gas is becoming even cheaper, but its carbon emissions, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, are still half those of coal and three-quarters those of gasoline per unit of energy produced. Although a switch to natural gas for many power uses would help, and accounts for recent drops in U.S. emissions, it cannot change the carbon arithmetic enough to prevent the world from exceeding ""safe"" levels.",4_5
"Coal remains the lowest-cost fuel for electric generation and remains the mainstay of base load power in the U.S. and many countries. Access to affordable energy is essential in the U.S. at a time when 48 million Americans live in poverty and a record 115 million qualify for energy assistance. China and India will not forego low-cost coal for base load power in favor of high-cost, non-dispatchable electric generation from renewable energy sources.",4_5
"Sprawling wind and solar installations and transmission lines across millions of acres of wildlife and scenic areas will kill millions of eagles, hawks, and other birds and bats.",4_1
"What's often ignored is that the creation of green jobs through subsidies and regulation inherently leads to the destruction of job opportunities in other industries. That's because any resource forcibly taken out of one sector and politically allocated in favor of renewable energy cannot be invested elsewhere. In our country, green energies are subsidized through a premium that every electricity consumer pays on his electricity bill (about 4.3% of the average bill). That helps to make Italy's electricity costs among the most expensive in Europe. In particular, big industrial consumers pay the most for electricity in Europe (at least 25% above the EU average in 2008, according to Italy's energy regulator).",4_1
"In 2012 Germans paid 20 billion for green energy that otherwise could have been produced for about 3 billion. The extra cost is because of green subsidies that will have almost no effect on Global Warming even a 100 years from now. If all that money was spent on energy research instead, Germany would actually help solve Global Warming.",4_1
"Biomass is a fancy name for plant material and vegetable trash which, if maintained in/on the soil, will provide the fertility for the next crop. Burning it reduces the humus that maintains fertile soil. The ultimate biomass stupidity is to harvest American forests, pelletise them, dry them and ship them across the Atlantic (all using hydrocarbon fuels) to burn in a UK power station. Burning biomass produces the same emission gases as coal.",4_2
"Stabilizing or even reducing global concentrations of GHGs will require two closely related actions: research and development to create new technologies that are more energy-efficient than those now used in developed countries; and effective action to spread these technologies to developing nations. Until these new technologies are available, significant savings in energy use and carbon emissions could be achieved by transferring current Western technology to developing countries. These actions will not merely reduce global emissions, but will also improve living standards and hope for the future in developing countries.",0_0
"???By not enforcing , the administration provides little incentive for companies to build wind farms where there are fewer birds. And while companies already operating turbines are supposed to avoid killing birds, in reality there??s little they can do once the windmills are spinning.??",4_4
"Approve the Keystone XL pipeline and streamline energy infrastructure projects. The next Administration's easiest decision may be to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Keystone XL is environmentally responsible, will not contribute significantly to climate change, will boost the economy, will increase the supply of oil to America's Gulf Coast refineries, and will provide much needed energy infrastructure. Further, the recent growth in domestic oil and gas productionsometimes in nontraditional areas, such as North Dakotahas resulted in transportation delays. Streamlining the environmental review and permitting processes for new pipelines and grid investments is a welcome step for managing new supplies. However, taxpayers should not subsidize those investments, and Congress should eliminate any federally imposed cost-socialization requirements through which regulatory agencies support expensive, uneconomic projects by spreading the costs to citizens who derive little, if any, benefit from those projects. Additionally, Congress should be mindful of protecting private property rights and respect the state authority to control local and regional needs.",4_5
"Senator Harry Reid says he may still try to pass even a minimalist renewable energy bill in the Senate, and then use it to ram through an economy-disrupting climate bill during a lame duck session, if even by a single vote. That would make the United States the only country to enact draconian climate and energy rules in the midst of a recession sending millions of jobs overseas, where energy prices and regulatory regimes are more hospitable and governments believe people have a right to better lives.",4_1
"Besides, should there be any real surprise that the plant isnt likely to be any budget bargain? After all, wasnt that the whole idea all alongrun up the cost of fossil energy so high that it would even begin to make subsidies for stratospherically costly and unreliable wind and solar boondoggles appear competitive? Isnt that what cap-and-trade was all about?",4_1
"We at CFACT hope President Obama and the Congress will make the full journey towards energy realism and concede that we can't run our country on subsidies and technologies that feel good, but don't meaningfully produce the energy needed to fuel our economy. So far the climate and energy proposals being floated in Congress have been all pain, no gain. Cap and trade, offsets, and subsidies will enrich a few carbon profiteers, but do nothing to secure our energy future, nor meaningfully affect our climate.",4_2
"Lyons told me: ""The biggest issue facing utilities is the closure of 300 coal-fueled power plants. This represents tens of thousands of jobs in the coal mining industry and billions of dollars of revenues for local, state and federal government."" There are no plans to effectively replace the comparatively cheap electricity. Progressive thought leaders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhous state: ""Energy poverty causes more harm to the poor than global warming"" and cheap energy ""makes the poor vastly less vulnerable to climate impacts.""",4_1
"The American people deserve better. The nations existing coal, natural gas and nuclear power plants could continue to deliver reliable and affordable electricity for decades to come, if not for the EPAs costly and disruptive climate agenda.",4_5
"Section III challenges the economic basis of AB 1493 and ARB's regulatory proposal. AB 1493 fails a reasonable cost-effectiveness test in two ways. First, even if the theory of catastrophic global warming were true, the emissions reductions achieved by AB 1493 would make no detectable difference in global temperature trends over the next 50 years. As environmental policy, AB 1493 is all cost for no benefit. Second, AB 1493 will raise the sticker price of new cars more than it will lower operating expenses for most consumers.",4_1
"Given the manifest reluctance of the worlds big emitters to accept any legally binding carbon targets and in face of our deepening economic crisis, Europe should undertake a comprehensive review of its economically damaging carbon targets and in the absence of an international agreement should consider the suspension of all unilateral climate policies that threaten Europes economic recovery. Benny Peiser, National Post, 25 November 2011",4_1
"At least the Government admits for the first time that the wind doesn?t always blow; so it proposes a Capacity Mechanism to subsidise the building of dozens of gas-fired power stations, to be kept running all the time, emitting CO2, just to provide instant back-up for when the wind drops. More than once on these recent cold, windless days, the contribution of wind to our electricity needs has been as low as 0.1 per cent ? so the back-up to all those turbines will cost billions more, doing much to negate any CO2 savings from the turbines when they work.",4_4
"To summarize, industrialized countries indeed have a historical responsibility for industrialization. But industrialization has been a net boon to humanity not only for industrialized countries but developing countries as well. The real problem may well not be climate change but ill-considered climate change policies that would use crops for energy production thereby increasing hunger, poverty, and the threat to biodiversity.",4_1
"Most plants will not grow without energy from the sun. Solar arrays steal energy directly from the biosphere. Some incoming solar energy is reflected to space by the panels, some is converted to waste heat on the panels, and some is converted to electricity much of which ends up as waste heat. Solar radiation that could have given energy to growing plants is largely returned to the atmosphere as waste heat and much is then lost to space.",4_1
"Kerry and Graham support a border tax to protect American jobs from products produced in countries that don??t commit to reducing their emissions. That is an admission that energy prices are going to go up and so are the prices of goods and services that are produced with or use energy. Consumers will be poorer as a result and hence will be able to afford fewer goods and services. Bye-bye manufacturing jobs. They also claim that their as-yet-to-be-written bill will reduce our imports of foreign oil. That??s plausible, but not exactly correct. As our economy declines, we will need less oil. But it will reduce U. S. and Canadian production first because the production costs are much higher here than in Saudi Arabia.",4_1
"To wit, that a) gasoline prices are beyond his control, but b) to the extent oil and gas production is rising in America, his energy policies deserve all the credit, and c) higher prices are one more reason to raise taxes on oil and gas drillers while handing even more subsidies to his friends in green energy. Where to begin?",4_1
"First, energy efficiency through legislation is a Trojan Horse for the green goal of energy rationing.",4_1
"But the real stakes are much higher. They are the businesses, jobs, families, living standards and liberties that will be increasingly threatened if President Obama, EPA, Big Green and the United Nations remain free to impose their climate and energy agenda. Responsible governors, state legislators and members of Congress must get involved, block these actions, and roll back the destructive policies.",4_1
"Their goal is to end the hydrocarbon and nuclear era in America, and force us to convert to ""renewable"" energy. Beginning January 2, they plan to ignore clear voter mandates and consumer needs and use regulations and executive edicts to slash carbon dioxide emissions, impose ""clean energy standards,"" halt onshore and offshore drilling, and hobble the vehicles, electrical generating plants and factories that are the backbone of our nation's economy, jobs and living standards.",4_1
"As IPCC leaders have explained, the climate change agenda is no longer about the environment. It is now about intentionally transforming the global economy and negotiating the redistribution of the worlds wealth and natural resources, in the name of social justice and equal distribution of misery.",4_1
"Regulation of markets and government subsidies to promote corn to ethanol conversion have distorted the existing economic allocation by diverting food to energy use. This raised equilibrium prices, increased energy supply by a small fraction (US corn ethanol accounted for less than 1% of US energy consumption in 2009 and reduced grain for food by a much larger one (US corn used for ethanol production is 4.3% of the total world grain production, even after allowing for the feed byproduct.",4_1
"Taxes on energy use or on carbon emissions could raise California's electricity bill from $2.6 billion to $10.4 billion, an increase of 12.5 to 50 percent. A tax on motor fuels of $.50 per gallon would add at least $7.7 billion to California's annual driving costs, a 40 percent increase; and a $1.00 tax would add $15.4 billion, an 80 percent increase. A BTU tax on natural gas, oil and coal of $.60 would add 6.1 percent to California's energy costs and a $1.00 BTU tax would increase annual costs by 10.6 percent.",4_1
NADA Chairman Bill Underriner doesnt agree with EPAs argument for higher fuel efficiency standards: This increase shuts almost 7 million people out of the new car market entirely and prevents many millions more from being able to afford new vehicles that meet their needs.,4_1
"The world stands on the verge of committing itself to limits on the emission of carbon dioxide that would drastically reduce the use of fossil fuels. If this fateful decision is made, the economies of developed nations will be strangled. Human prosperity will be reduced. Our ability to solve pressing problems, both human and environmental, will be severely limited. We have been told that these shackles must be imposed to forestall a hypothetical global warming projected to occur some time in the distant future. But to date the only unambiguous evidence for planetary warming is a modest rise in temperature (less than one degree Celsius) that falls well within the range of natural variation.",4_1
"and since the cost of AB 32 (direct & indirect) is at least $116 Billion, the cost to ""avoid global warming"" per 1 C would be $116,000,000,000/.000087429 = $1,326,790,881,744,043 ($1.3 Quadrillion per degree). Note: Global GDP (61.1 trillion) is less than 5% of this amount. Looks like the cost/(assumed benefits) ratio is rather high, even if you are a true believer.",4_1
"If, asalmost certainly would happen, the mandates compeldifferent actions and investments than industry would otherwise undertake to meetthe cap,then the same emission reductions would be achieved athigher cost.Thetargeted mandates and incentivescan only substitute more costly GHG cuts for those that could have been made at lower cost.",4_1
"Further, most other programs to create jobs create the jobs much more cheaply, without the knock-on effect of higher energy costs requiring schemes to mitigate the impact on seniors and the poor. Tahtis to say, paying workers to dig ditches and fill them up again is less economically harmful ??? that is, more wise ??? than green jobs schemes.",4_1
"- Low-cost, coal-fired electric power is vital to the jobs, incomes, and health of millions of Americans. Complete elimination of coal-fired power by Kyoto-style regulation could reduce household income by as much as $225 billion in 2010, and induce 14,000 to 25,000 premature adult deaths, especially among minorities and the poor.",4_1
"What it conspicuously fails to do, however, is to make any assessment of the unequivocally adverse economic impact of the decarbonisation policy it continues to advocate, which (if implemented) would be far worse than any adverse impact from global warming.",4_1
"United Kingdom manufacturers say ""green energy"" policies and increased penalties for using fossil fuels are raising their costs to intolerable levels, especially for energy-intensive industries. Manufacturing is ""reaching a tipping point,"" they say, ""where companies that are internationally mobile will say ""enough is enough,'"" and simply move to Asia. Millions of jobs are on the line.",4_1
"Recent studies on Spain , Germany , and Denmark suggest that, in fact, RES subsidies destroy, not create, jobs a remarkable result, since these three countries are widely regarded as the most successful models in Europe. The U.S. Congressional Budget Office found similar results.",4_1
Climate experts tell us that a 1930s style global economic depression is needed to stabilize the climate.,4_1
"One in five people in the UK still live in poverty, often without enough money to heat their homes or to eat healthily. The new report shows that the poorest people in the UK will be most affected by the effects of climate change. They tend to live in poorer housing, have poorer health, less access to home insurance, and less money to adapt to price rises. Their situation could be worsened by measures to combat climate change such as higher taxation on fossil fuels.",4_1
"The CO2 emissions per capita are nearly proportional to the GDP per capita - but no one cares about this particular number, anyway. Costa Rica has something like 2 tons of CO2 per capita and year while the Netherlands has 23 tons or so. If you reduce your emissions to 1/10, your wealth will drop to 1/5 or so, which is about 0.7th power of 1/10.",4_1
"States' CO2 ""Nuisance' Suit Threatens Already-Staggering Economy",4_1
"Furthermore, to demand a ""global"" solution is tantamount to asking poor countries to commit economic suicide. Such rhetoric reinforces the perception, tirelessly promoted by greenhouse lobbyists, that Kyoto foes are motivated solely by greed. Worse, those who attack Kyoto as a trade bonanza for developing countries can only encourage such nations to make whatever symbolic or token ""commitments"" it takes to keep Kyoto alive.",4_1
Europe must invest ???2.9tn to meet 2020 emissions goal ( other sources ) the EU commitments to reduce the carbonization of the economy before the year 2020 will cost a staggering ???2.9 trillion which is $3.9 trillion.,4_1
"""The Tailoring Rule is an illegal solution to an administrative nightmare of EPA's own making,"" said Lewis. ""Having failed to get Congress to enact cap-and-trade, the Obama Administration is using the Clean Air Act to achieve the same results: higher energy prices, lower economic growth, and jobs shipped overseas,"" said Myron Ebell, Director of CEI's Center for Energy and Environment.",4_1
"Obama adviser Martin Feldstein notes that ""the Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that the resulting increases in consumer prices"" from capping the amount of carbon dioxide energy users can emit ""would raise the cost of living of a typical household by $1,600 a year,"" a figure that ""would rise significantly"" from year to year.",4_1
"The Supreme Court ruling was an important victory for those of us concerned about the burdensome costs of EPAs regulatory agenda, but it came too latethe damage from MATS is already done. However, there is still time to save Americans from the harmful impacts of EPAs so-called Clean Power Plan. State policymakers like you must protect American families by rejecting policies that make electricity more expensive and less reliable. Without your help, unlawful regulationseven if struck down in courtwill shackle American families with higher costs for decades to come.",4_1
A State Global Warming Policy Could Destroy the Economy,4_1
"Taylor argues that the early numbers from a joint federal-provincial group analyzing the potential economic impact of Kyoto show the costs to be unacceptable. He told the National Post (March 28, 2002), ""My understanding is that the numbers that will come out of that process will be higher than Ottawa has expected and so looking outside that process now at other studies to see what they can find.""",4_1
"These hundreds of billions are being paid by ordinary families and small and medium-sized businesses in what is undoubtedly one of the biggest wealth transfers from poor to rich in modern European history. Rising energy bills are dampening consumers? spending, a poisonous development for a Continent struggling with a severe economic and financial crisis.",4_1
"No such green hijacking is going to take place in Canada, at least not without an official fight. On the eve of hearings, which begin Tuesday in Kitimat, B.C., into the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline to carry the same oil sands production from Alberta to the West Coast and on to China the Harper government clearly aims to do what Barack Obama cannot or will not do in America, namely stand up to the growth-killing professional green movement. (Financial Post)",4_1
President Obama took it all back and now offers the possibility of a little bit of offshore exploration and calls it a compromise. His purpose is clearly to draw moderate support in the Congress for global warming legislation that will raise energy prices for consumers and industry. The Republican staff of the House Natural Resources Committee have provided a useful analysis that includes some very revealing maps. My comments are here .,4_1
"YouTube - Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claims British Lord On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change expert, gave a presentation at Bethel College in St. Paul, MN in which he issued a dire warning regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty which is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.",4_1
"By the end of 2013, and despite having spent $2.5 billion, Michigan??s nine oldest coal plants will continue to operate while having their emissions trimmed by no more than 5 percent. But had we chosen to build gas plants instead of wind plants, that same $2.5 billion could build 2,500 MW of gas generating capacity instead of only 225 MW. This is enough to permanently close half of the nine ???dirty coal?? plants in question.",4_1
"The study states that if cars in Europe reach the required10% biofuel target set by the EU for its cars by 2020, massive damage will threaten the environment and poor citizens globally.",4_1
"The EPA is the governments ultimate enemy of energy, though the Department of the Interior and other elements of the government participate in limiting access to our vast energy reserves and energy use nationwide. By government edict, the incandescent light bulb has been banned. How insane is that?",4_1
"Clean Power Plan: In June 2014, the EPA proposed a rule to control greenhouse gases from existing power plants, known as the Clean Power Plan. The unprecedented rule would regulate the entire electric industry, rather than on a source-by-source basis as had been EPA's practice for 40 years. As such, the proposed Clean Power Plan would grossly expand EPA's authority into the states' traditional authorities. For 80 years, States have overseen retail electricity markets shielded from federal intrusion. The Clean Power Plan would radically alter this arrangement, which dates from the New Deal, such that state authority would now fall under the thumb of EPA approval. In addition to posing grave federalism concerns, the rule would be the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector, costing between $41 billion and $73 billion per year.",4_1
"This group naturally includes the United Nations and all of its subsidiaries, the EU, and left wing politicians and media everywhere. At a news conference in Brussels recently, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.??s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but to change the economic development model ie destroy what is left of free enterprise and private property. See:",4_1
"And here is Christopher Moncktons powerful explanation of what it will really mean, which can be summed up in three points: global government, global wealth redistribution and global enforcement, all without any democratic process whatsoever:",4_1
"The one thing you dont hear President Obama mention is how much his proposed emissions reductions will reduce global warming, wrote Curry. The social costs of carbon estimates made by the White House require assumptions out to the year 2300 for drastic carbon dioxide reductions to be cost effective.",4_2
"The fundamental problem with Obama's approach to carbon-dioxide emissions is the idea that the U.S. can solve the problem. No matter what the U.S. does, emissions will continue to soar, because so many people in the developing world want to come out of the dark and into the bright lights of modernity. Proof of that can be seen in yet one more number that's easily found in the BP data: Over the past decade, global carbon-dioxide emissions would have risen by 2.6 billion tons even if U.S. emissions had gone to zero.",4_2
"Someday, China's leaders may, for their own reasons, alter their stance on climate. If so, and if Beijing can verify that it will adopt a price on carbon emissions, Washington should be ready to match it. For the foreseeable future, though, Beijing's verifiable preferred price on carbon is zero. Until that number changes, the main U.S. line of defense against the risks of climate change is not a carbon tax. It remains a free and productive economy.",4_2
"The global temperature savings of the Kerry-Lieberman bill is astoundingly small0.043C (0.077F) by 2050 and 0.111C (0.200F) by 2100. In other words, by centurys end, reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 83% will only result in global temperatures being one-fifth of one degree Fahrenheit less than they would otherwise be. That is a scientifically meaningless reduction.",4_2
"""A strategic initiative that is aimed at substituting alternative fuels for fossil fuels in the production of one kind of energy is doomed to failure unless it somehow eliminates the value of using the same fossil fuels to produce other kinds of energy. If Mr. Gore really wants to spur the United States and other countries to use alternative fuels to produce electricity or any kind of energy, he should just sponsor legislation to prohibit the use of fossil fuels. Otherwise, he is just blowing smoke.""",4_2
"That isnt all; a Department of Labor program to create green jobs has largely misfired. It has created only 2 percent of the projected jobs and the cost per job created is more than $120,000 .",4_2
"How many workers does it take to change an incandescent light bulb in California? Two. One to install its energy-efficient replacement, and another to ensure the job complies with government regulations. BeholdTom Steyers green jobs stimulus, which a new report from the Associated Press shows has been a colossal failure even by its proponents standards.",4_2
"The White House ordered the review after criticism of a $528 million loan to Solyndra Inc., a solar company that went bankrupt.",4_2
"The new rules are part of President Obama's effort to combat global warming, but are only anticipated to reduce global temperatures by .018 degrees by the year 2100.",4_2
"Kyoto was supposed to reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide below 1990 levels during the period 2008-2012. But since it was signed, the atmospheric concentration of this putative pollutant continued to rise, pretty much at the same rate it did before Kyoto. (Even if the world had lived up to the letter of the Kyoto law, it would have exerted an influence on global temperature that would have been too small to measure.)",4_2
"Full implementation of all nations' commitments under the Paris agreement, at a cost of $1 to $2 trillion annually from 2030 onward, would, as Bj rn Lomborg calculates even while assuming the IPCC's exaggerated estimates of CO2's warming effect, reduce GAT in 2100 by just 0.17 C, an amount too little to have significant impact.",4_2
"In other words, by regulating companies that provide more than 80% of our primary energy out of business and raising subsidies sky-high for windmills and sunbeams that provide 4%, we will be able to reduce global temperatures by an estimated 0.03 Celsius before the next century.",4_2
"But let's not stop there. Let's use our imagination and assume that China reduces its emissions by 20 percent by 2030. That gets us two tenths of a degree. Throw in a 30 percent reduction by Europe and Japan and the rest of the industrialized world, also by 2030. That's another two tenths of a degree, for a grand total of 0.425 degrees, under a ""climate sensitivity"" (loosely, the effectiveness of greenhouse gas reductions) assumption 50 percent greater than that adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its latest assessment report. Is an effect that small worth 1 percent of global GDP, or roughly $600 billion to $750 billion per year, inflicted disproportionately upon the world's poor?",4_2
"Should you respond that any journey begins with a tiny step, consider the following. The Obama climate policy calls for a 17 percent reduction below 2005 levels in U.S. GHG emissions by 2020. If we apply the EPA's own climate model, that would reduce temperatures by the year 2100 by fifteen one-thousandths of a degree. In addition, the U.S.-China Joint Announcement on Climate Change calls for an additional 10 percent reduction by the U.S. by 2025. (The Chinese commitment it's unenforceable is for a ""peak"" in their emissions by 2030. Total emissions at that peak and the emissions path after the peak are not addressed.) The additional 10 percent U.S. reduction yields another one one-hundredth of a degree. The standard deviation of the temperature record is about 0.1 degrees, so that these effects would be too small even to be measured, let alone to affect sea levels and cyclones and all the rest.",4_2
"Denmark was responsible in 2010 for about 0.15% of the worlds human emissions of CO2. Global temperatures by 2100 should rise by less than 3C. If their emissions dont change, the Danes are therefore likely to be responsible for up to about 3 0.0015 = 0.0045C of that global temperature rise, which nobody will detect in the environment. For that undetectable reward, they will endure much.",4_2
"""For both developing and industrialized countries, net GDP per capitaalbeit an imperfect surrogate for human well-beingshould be (1) double the current US level by 2100 under the warmest scenario , and (2) lowest under the poorest IPCC scenario but highest under the warmest scenario through 2200. The warmest world, being wealthier, should also have greater capacity to address any problem, including warming. Therefore, other problems and, specifically, lowered economic development are greater threats to humanity than global warming.""",4_2
"Focused adaptation designed to reduce vulnerability more broadly to todays urgent health problems would deliver greater reductions in deaths at a lower cost than climate mitigation policies, Dr Goklany added.",4_2
"JC comments: Over the last 5 years or so, I have been framing my research and applications related to extreme weather events around the concept of resilience. I viewed resilience as a concept that was orthogonal to sustainability, and realized that infrastructure designed for sustainability may make it more vulnerable to natural hazards. Zollis essay makes the argument that sustainability and resilience are tied to two different world views, and I find his argument convincing. Resilience thinking is associated with systems thinking, uncertainty, and wicked problems. Resilience is arguably a concept that has broader political palatability than does sustainability. Resilience thinking seems to be a particularly good match for dealing with extreme weather events, which is arguably associated with the greatest impacts from climate variability and change.",4_2
"Finally, in case we do conclude that we want to roll back atmospheric carbon levels, we should look into things like carbon sequestration, or geo-engineering, that might let us influence the climate without plunging ourselves back into an economic stone age.",4_2
"To build on these promising beginnings during the course of the negotiations will in my view require several further recognitions and realizations. First, the major developing nations need to recognize that playing the game they have been playing may seem clever now, but won't work over the long haul. China and India have enthusiastically supported a second round of mandatory emissions cuts for the developed nations, but not for them. They hope that in a second round the developed economies will have to pay billions and billions of dollars to them to install modern emissions-saving technologies and also that energy-intensive industrial production will continue to move from carbon-constrained economies to theirs. China, India, and other developing and poor countries understand that going on an energy starvation diet when you are already energy poor offers far more pain than gain. The potential harms caused by global warming are minor annoyances when compared to the immense benefits of affordable energy. Instead of playing a cute double-faced game, China and India should articulate the reasons why the demands from the energy-rich nations for them to accept mandatory emissions reductions before the technology is available to make those reductions affordably are simply another form of eco-imperialism.",4_2
"From this article: The report also suggests that allowing carbon-constrained U.S. firms to trade credits with firms in China or India, where emission reduction measures are relatively inexpensive, would yield an estimated U.S. carbon price as low as $15 per tonne rather than $40 per tonne, thereby saving the American economy about $145 billion per year in increased energy costs. So while the Earth appears to be cooling , we should pay real money to China for highly-questionable ""emission reductions"" that would, at best, ""cool"" the world by an additional amount too small to measure? And while we make those payments, China would continue to build two new coal plants per week ?!",4_2
"But there's the rub. To get results will require widespread cooperation among countries. Even if developed countries froze their emissions, worldwide emissions would still grow around 150 percent by 2050 because of the increase from developing countries. Moreover, if China or India does not eventually agree to binding targets, some greenhouse-gas producers will simply set up shop there because it is cheaper.",4_2
The problem is that the basic approach is unworkable. International negotiations have centered on placing the economic burden of addressing climate change on a few dozen developed countries while asking nothing from more than 150 developing countries. But the primary source of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly the developing world. Any approach to effectively address increasing emissions of greenhouse gases must capture emissions from developed and developing countries.,4_2
"China and India, among other developing countries, argue that they should be allowed to increase carbon emissions. They're still developing and require higher rates of economic growth. Moreover, they aren't responsible for previous emissions, and on a per capita basis U.S. emissions are much higher.",4_2
The idea of just flicking the switch from coal and other fossil fuels to renewable energy is a fantasy. It cannot be done.,4_4
"The challenge for Spain was to transform that free resource into an industry that made economic sense and attracted investors. The first problem lawmakers encountered was price. Solar power, like wind and other renewable-energy sources, cant yet compete on price against electricity generated from natural gas or coal.",4_4
"Renewable energy is both more expensive than and as damaging to the environment as energy produced from natural gas or coal, says Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute. Writing in the Washington Times (Aug. 4), he points out that the usual argument that traditional energy fuels are unfairly subsidized has been judged groundless by the General Accounting Office. The GAO said fossil fuel subsidies are ""too small to have a significant effect on the overall level of energy prices and consumption in the United States.""",4_4
"I may comment further on these reports in a future post. In the meantime, Iwill simply observe that if Babcock is correct, and U.S. biofuel policies have only a small influence on food prices because ???a large expansion in US ethanol production would have occurred even if the subsidies and mandates had not been in place,?? then U.S. taxpayers get little or no energy-security bang for billions of biofuel bucks.",4_4
"Costly renewable energy policies are already set to raise California power costs by $5 billion or 33 percent due to expensive and unreliable wind and solar energy. However, that may be only half of the additional cost, since the""California Public Utilities Commission has called on utilities and private companies to install about $5 billion worth of batteries and other forms of energy storage to help the state power grid cope with the erratic power supplied by wind and solar energy.""",4_4
This says a lot for the lack of economic viability of palm oil biofuel if it doesnt look favorable with high subsidies. Maybe there is an upside to this. Havent we been hearing about deforestation from palm oil or other biofuel production being an environmental and climate problem?,4_4
"The report uses an economic model of New Zealand which is totally unsuited to analysing the effect of 20% energy generation from wind. Any model that does not take into account the intermittent and seasonal nature of wind and its effect on power prices and the fact that, in a dry year, hydro cannot back up wind, is worthless. The model makes no allowance for the fact that over peak demand periods, only about 10% of the wind generation can be relied on. It also does not consider the need for extra transmission lines and the poor efficiency of the gas fired power stations that must be built to back up wind. For example, one study in the United States showed that, in Texas, a large amount of wind energy results in a tiny reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.",4_4
"Climate sceptics have been asking about discrepancies in the economics of solar panels for years. We still have questions about their carbon footprint, but they become moot as solar panels are killed off by economics.",4_4
"This refers to the cardinal problem of solar and wind energy, the intermittency of power generation that depends on the weather. The year has 8,760 hours; wind turbines, however, only produce for 1,530 hours at full power, photovoltaic systems even just for 980 hours. To make matters worse, no one knows in advance when green electricity is fed into the grid, and when its not available.",4_4
"The highly touted, government-subsidized, unreliable, intermittent and expensive alternative power schemes currently in vogue are nothing but a phenomenal waste of money. As evident from the described wind farm in Germany, the required technology is not in place at this time, perhaps may never be.",4_4
"Wind energy proponents cling to the idea that we must reduce fossil fuel use and believe, therefore, that the extra cost is worth it. However, because of the intermittency issues with wind and the reliability demand from the consumer, it requires fully dispatchable back-up power generation. Natural gas is the best form of backup because it can be easily adjusted to produce more or less electricityhowever, the constant adjustment required to supplement wind or solar energy results in less efficient use and more CO2 emissions.",4_4
"But what has all this doom and gloom got to do with the governments drive for renewable energy, you might ask? Well, the entire problem with renewables almost all renewables is that they are dangerously intermittent power sources.",4_4
"Toronto Star; Coping with surplus wind power will cost Ontario electricity ratepayers up to $200 million a year if market rules don't change, says the power system operator. Moreover, it says, if it can't control the flow of wind and solar power onto the Ontario grid, then ""reliable and economic operation of the power system is, at best, highly compromised and likely not feasible."" When there's more power than the system can handle, the IESO sells it to neighbouring provinces and states -- sometimes at a loss, and sometimes actually paying them to take it. No worries, there's plenty of wood in the Greenbelt . h/t AK",4_4
The above chart shows German power supply by the various sources available and demand over the last 30 days. The lions share of Germanys installed renewable energy (wind and sun) went just about completely AWOL three times during the period. Chart source: Agora .,4_4
"Conclusion: The concept of generating and delivering green energy with offshore windmills and cross-country transmission lines for its delivery not only faces a lot of protest, but it would be super-expensive, unreliable, and would require the abandonment of market principles, which happen to heavily favor France right now.",4_4
"The total electrical energy consumption by Germany during the first 25 days was approximately 33 terawatt-hrs. That translates to anaverage of 55 gigawatts of power every hour. If the wind turbines had operated at 100% capacity for the entire time, they still would have only supplied 60% of Germanys needed power. However, wind turbines rarely run near 100% rated capacity. Very often they produce only a small fraction of their rated capacity because the wind is highly variable and often does not blow very hard. On April 18 wind turbines in Germany produced their peak for the month: 17 gigawatts, but only for about 2 hours, before rapidly dropping off again to 8 GW at around midnight. On that day, all wind turbines together briefly reached 53% of their rated capacity. And that was their best day.",4_4
The findings will deliver a body blow to governmental claims that their current target of generating 27 percent of energy from renewable sources mostly wind and solar by 2030 is credible.,4_4
"But how reliable is the technology? The turbines are intended to run for 20 years but in some cases they have had to be pulled in after only eight years. It remains to be seen whether this is a particular feature of the North Sea conditions or a more general aspect and if the latter, it must seriously jeopardise the future of offshore wind energy. (Forbes)",4_4
"The project of transforming biomass into fuels by using catalytic pyrolysis, or cracking, an invention by a company in the Netherlands, BIOeCON , turned out to be a renewable money pit for KiOR which produced very little energy.",4_4
"Since 2000, Germany has used the EEG to promote the expansion of renewable forms of energy. To ensure that the construction of expensive solar and wind farms is worthwhile for private individuals and investors, they receive a guarantee that the electricity they produce will be purchased at a fixed price for a period of several years.",4_4
"All this argues for a closer look at the cost/benefit relationship of investing in renewable energy projects, to prevent a massive waste of financial and natural resources on unreliable and thus uncompetitive forms of energy. Since every cloud has a silver lining, the ongoing economic crisis might give extra impetus toward that end.",4_4
"Often wrong but never in doubt, the geniuses of the green community. Repeat after mefor miles driven ethanol produces more carbon dioxide because it is less energy dense. Moreover ethanol burns hotter and is hydrophilic so it is hard on engine parts. Ethanol adds increase the cost of fuel, it has a big land, carbon and water use footprint, and it only survives because of the politics of the ethanol mandate and a little thing called the Iowa caucuses along with our friends at Archer Daniels Midlands and the farmers who are getting rich on high priced corn while mexicans cant afford tortillas.",4_4
"Widely hailed as ""green"" sources of renewable energy, hydroelectric dams have been built worldwide at an unprecedented scale. But University of East Anglia research reveals that these major infrastructure projects are far from environmentally friendly. A PLOS ONE study reveals the drastic effects of the major Amazonian Balbina Dam on tropical rainforest biodiversity. It reveals a loss of mammals, birds and tortoises from the vast majority of islands formed by the creation of the Balbina Lake",4_4
"Environmental groups must first understand the functional failure of industrial wind and focus on that issue alone. For once it is clear that the sacrifice demanded is not worth the benefit derived, the turbines will come tumbling down. Only then will be environment begin to heal.",4_4
"John Bennett of the Ontario, Canada Sierra Club, has accused Wind Concerns Ontario (WCO) as being supported by the Progressive Conservatives (PCs). Im a liberal, and I support and volunteered for WCO after my town was ruined by wind turbines, the Sierra Clubs and the PMs agenda and enforcements.",4_4
"As Dan Kish, Senior Vice President of the Institute for Energy Research in Washington, D.C., observed in an interview I posted last March , the Obama administrations apparent intent is tomake heavily subsidized, unreliable and costly renewable energy programs they are pushing more cost-competitive. This is the Tonya Harding approach to energy break your opponents kneecap if you cant win fair and square.",4_4
"Energy storage concepts such as accumulators, power-to-gas, compressed air storage are plagued by low efficiencies and sky-high costs. He reminds readers that using electriccar batteries as a storage media is also a pie-in-the-sky-vision. Gehlert tells IKZ:",4_4
"Carbon sequestration frustration :: iNSnet Captured CO2 must be compressed to about 100 times atmospheric pressure (which takes energy), transported to a suitable underground reservoir (which takes energy) and pumped into the ground (which takes energy). A coal-fired power plant that sequesters its CO2 must burn about 30 percent more coal than conventional plants to cover these energy needs. And that extra coal must first be mined (which has environmental effects) and transported to the plant (which takes fuel) the list goes on and on. Even with this extra burden, a CO2-burying plant emits between 71 and 78 percent less CO2 than a normal coal-fired plant for each unit of usable electricity produced, Koornneef and his colleagues report. But when the researchers factored in all the cradle to grave pollution of a CO2-burying plant, emissions of acid rain-causing gases like nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides were up to 40 percent greater than the total cradle-to-grave emissions of a modern plant that doesnt capture its CO2.",4_4
"The capture and subsequent geologic sequestration of CO 2 has been central to plans for managing CO 2 produced by the combustion of fossil fuels. The magnitude of the task is overwhelming in both physical needs and cost, and it entails several components including capture, gathering and injection. The rate of injection per well and the cumulative volume of injection in a particular geologic formation are critical elements of the process.",4_4
"In Tuesday's speech, Obama did point to one success: ""Since 2006, no country on Earth has reduced its total carbon pollution by as much as the United States of America."" The United States is the only industrialized country to actually lower carbon emissions. We've done it, not through extreme policiesbut through private enterprise embracing our abundant natural gas. Encouraging extraction in the U.S. and approving Liquefied Natural Gas export terminals would reduce global carbon emissions and help our economy.",4_5
"According to the WSJ editorial, from 2008-2012 the U.S. became the worlds natural-gas leader, with production increasing by nearly fourfold since 2008. The U.S. added 600,000 miles of gas pipeline, a 30% increase, utilities substituted gas for coal on a massive scale, and the economy grew. Methane emissions nonetheless fell.",4_5
"Such is the hunger for energy that 80% of all new North American oil and gas drilling now utilizes this technique, which, in its current form, is barely a decade old. Fracking requires enormous amounts of water, which has midwifed the birth of a highly lucrative water services industry.",4_5
"Pope Francis' concern for the environment is admirable. But to keep the poverty-reducing engine of economic growth running, it is necessary to continue to use fossil fuels. Our air is getting cleaner, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future as new capital replaces old. Abandoning fossil fuels would hurt the most vulnerable in societies throughout the world.",4_5
"General Electric and Chesapeake Energy have formed an alliance to promote the use of natural gas as a fuel for cars and trucks, in a bid to capitalise on the US shale gas boom.",4_5
"If I told you that you should hate coal, oil and natural gas, you might think I was crazy and you would be right. Everything we do involves these three energy reserves and the U.S. has so much of them that we could be energy independent of the rest of the world while, at the same time, exporting them.",4_5
Hydraulic fracturing has helped companies tap potentially decades of gas supply and huge amounts of oil from previously inaccessible shale formations dotted across the United States in recent years.,4_5
"Pressure groups and governing elites used to argue that we are running out of oil and natural gas. That ploy no longer works. While fossil fuels may eventually prove finite, fracking has given us vast new supplies of petroleum and huge coal, oil and gas deposits have been placed off limits by government decree. We have at least a century to develop alternative energy sources that actually work that create real jobs, actual revenues, lower energy prices and true prosperity without the mandates, subsidies, deception, fraud and corruption that are the hallmark of green energy schemes.",4_5
"Another analogy can be drawn with the U.S. exploration and production sector, which did very well to develop lots of natural-gas reserves. But the resulting oversupply has damaged the economics of the business. Value is accruing instead to those who transport and use the fuel. Increasingly, the likes of Exxon Mobil are muscling in. These bigger companies are willing and able to absorb the near-term pain of low prices in anticipation of a coming age of gas.",4_5
"The technically recoverable natural gas resources in the United States total 40 percent of the worlds natural gas reserves. At 2,744 trillion cubic feet, it can fuel natural gas demand in the United States for 175 years at current usage rates, or selectively, it can satisfy the nations residential demand for 857 years or the nations electricity demand for 575 years.",4_5
"Despite the Obama administrations efforts, coal will likely continue to play an integral role in providing the general public with inexpensive and reliable baseload electricity that powers our economy and affords Americans a high standard of living, Eick said.",4_5
"But we have to keep our eye on the ball long-term, Jacoby says. Hes concerned about how cheap gas will affect much cleaner sources of energy. Wind and solar power are more expensive than natural gas, and though those prices have been coming down, theyre chasing a moving target that has fallen fast: natural gas.",4_5
"The real red herring is the bogus climate crisis, which diverts public attention from Keystone XL??s manifest benefits: an estimated 42,100 new jobs and $2.3 billion inadditional GDP during the 2-year construction period, enhanced integration and efficiency of North American energy markets,stronger (rather than strained) U.S.-Canadian relations, and ??? compared to alternate delivery modes ??? fewer oil spills and feweraccidents .",4_5
"Even if American companies choose not to drill at current oil prices, they can move quickly if prices rebound, said Joseph Stanislaw of JAStanislaw Group LLC, an energy advisory firm. U.S. drillers ability to pump lots of crude from shale caught the world by surprise, he said. And part of that surprise is that it is not as expensive as most people thought and is more durable than most people thought.",4_5
"Fracking regulations. State and local regulation and cooperation with industry, constant refinements and improvements in rules and practices, and accommodation to public concerns about water, drilling and fracking fluids, road congestion, community impacts and other issues have been ongoing for decades. That is part of the reason that 2.5 million instances of fracking worldwide (over 1 million in the USA) since 1949 have not caused any serious harm. Thats a safety record any industry would envy.",4_5
"Every day, humans continue to choose fossil fuel energy because it is one of the best forms of energy, and I work at a refinery, helping people to use that energy.",4_5
"Yes, oil, gas, and coal producers should be worriedand the individuals and industries that count on America's abundant, available and affordable energy should be afraid, very afraid.",4_5
"These competitive advantages have resulted in an overwhelming preference for electricity over the ten-year period, as installed natural gas capacity is projected to increase 38 percent over the ten-year period, while coal is projected to increase by only 6 percent, NERCs assessment said. Its predictions of demand for new generation have been overly generous in the past but now appear to be more realistic (Table 1). The EIA predictions of electricity demand growth do not include peak demand growth as a separate category, but rather predict energy consumption will grow 8.2% through 2018. Together, the NERC and EIA data clearly show that the need for additional, dispatchable load during on-peak hours will be a primary focus for electricity system planners. Expect more gas-fired reciprocating engine and combined-cycle plants designed for intermediate peaking service to be announced in the coming year.",4_5
"Citing climate concerns, he has refused to permit construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, and blocked or delayed Alaskan, western state and offshore oil and gas leasing and drilling. He's proud that US oil production has climbed 58% and natural gas output has risen 21% since 2008. But he doesn't mention that this is due to hydraulic fracturing on state and private lands; production has actually fallen in areas controlled by the federal government, and radical environmentalists oppose fracking all over the USA.",4_5
"Mini-nuclear and geothermal are stand-alone power sources, in contrast, and produce no CO2.",4_5
"A nuclear facility would be an even lower pollution option, but would cost more than coal. In my view, Small Modular Reactors are clearly the future and they have significantly less environmental concerns than does a large nuclear facility. Here is an interesting study on SMR economics.",4_5
"As the concentration of greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere increases, they effectively trap more and more heat in this lower layer, causing it to warm and causing the layers above to cool. But this sentence is not a verified fingerprint. It's just a parroted proclamation from the global warming religion - a hypothesis that has been falsified about 10 times in the text above. It has been demonstrated that the effect above, whether it looks attractive or not, is not sufficient - and maybe not even necessary - to explain most of the climate change in the real world.",5_2
"Official climate science is based on the corrupted work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). One proof of corruption is the constant moving of the goalposts. Theyre not moved to accommodate new evidence but to defend the hypothesis. A major example occurred in 2000 when CO2 continued to rise but temperatures declined, contradicting the claim that a CO2 increase caused a temperature increase. Global warming became Climate Change.",5_2
"Most climate models have falsely predicted global warming: Despite growing emissions of so-called greenhouse gases, temperatures are not rising. Snow in the winter is however a side-effect of global warming, climate scientists say.",5_1
"Read here . The UK's highly publicized Stern report on global warming impacts has been analyzed extensively and now finds itself on the ash heap of likely fraudulent, totally misleading economic/science research.",5_2
"In his enviro-propaganda flick, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claims nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the last decade. That's been a common refrain for environmentalists, too, and one of the centrepieces of global warming hysteria: It's been really hot lately -- abnormally hot -- so we all need to be afraid, very afraid. The trouble is, it's no longer true.Last week, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies -- whose temperature records are a key component of the global-warming claim (and whose director, James Hansen, is a sort of godfather of global-warming alarmism) -- quietly corrected an error in its data set that had made recent temperatures seem warmer than they really were.A little less than a decade ago, the U.S. government changed the way it recorded temperatures. No one thought to correlate the new temperatures with the old ones, though -- no one until Canadian researcher Steve McIntyre, that is.",5_2
"In the dogmatically blind worlds of liberalism and environmentalism, the truth is irrelevant. Lomborg was never a climate skeptic as they originally hysterically claimed. Now he continues with his views, but they are conveniently and falsely misrepresented as rejecting climate skepticism. Two lies make a truth in the dogmatically dark world of liberalism and environmentalism. The only truth is Lomborg, the liberals, and the environmentalists still know nothing about climate science.",5_2
"Year after year, alarmists have changed their protective shells for more absurd answers regarding where the Earth has mysteriously stashed all the energy that greenhouse gases supposedly trapped. For years, alarmists said ocean waters were storing the missing energy. But when the ARGO project demonstrated that the heat was not in the ocean, at least down two kilometers (1.2 miles) beneath the surface, one prominent alarmist responded, ""We are puzzled at the results."" We are not puzzled.",5_2
"There was, however, an inconsistency in the argument of the scientists. Scientists consistently drew on short-term temperature increases in order to give climate change meaning:",5_2
"This is just unbelievable; ???the UWA experiment??. Think about what this refers to: University of Western Australia. This is where Cook launched his career defaming climate skeptics by helping Stephan Lewandowsky in designing/running a gussied up poll that was never actually posted on climate skeptic websites , that purports to give answers by climate skeptics, to be used in a paper where it is claimed that climate skeptics are believers that ???the moon landing was faked ???. What sort of ???experiment?? was John Cook running by stealing the identity of Dr. Lubos Motl, and writing comments under his name?",5_2
"At this point I am reminded that James Hansen raised the alarm about global warming in 1988 when he had less than a decade of noisy global warming data on which to base his concern. The amount of warming heobserved between 1980 and 1988 was far smaller than known natural variations and far larger than the IPCC would go on to say was due to AGW during that period. So whatever the eventual outcome of the AGW debate, logically Hansen had no scientific case.",5_1
The ability of climate models to simulate large-scale temperature changes during the twentieth century when they include both anthropogenic and natural forcings and their inability to account for warming over the last 50 yr when they exclude increasing greenhouse gas concentrations has been used as evidence for an anthropogenic influence on global warming. new simulations support previous work by showing that there was a significant anthropogenic influence on near-surface temperature change over the last century. NO.,5_1
"Of course there is nothing wrong, or at least not much that is wrong, with the ideals behind any of the above agendas except perhaps the last couple on the list. But the battles over them should be fought in the open and on their own merits rather than on the basis of a global warming crusade whose legitimacy is founded on still-doubtful science and on massive slabs of politically correct propaganda.",5_2
"Starting today, world leaders are beginning a two-week meeting in Copenhagen in a bid to change the entire direction of the global economy. They will do so, not on the basis of empirical scientific facts about global warming, but on alarmist computer-modelled predictions based on a swath of raw temperature data. Oh yes, and the scientific integrity of those doing the feeding and interpreting the results.",5_1
"Climate modelers like Kevin Trenberth would never be able to run another computer model telling us how hot our future apocalypse might be, since his NCAR computer is run by Wyoming coal . Likewise, NOAA??s Gaea supercomputer will be DOA since it can??t run on recycled vegetable oil.",5_1
"Michael Mann of Penn State University who fabricated and contrived the headline graph in the UN's 2001 climate assessment report which falsely attempted to state that the middle ages were not warmer than the present day when the scientific, historical and archaeological consensus was and is that the middle ages was substantially warmer throughout the world and that today's temperatures are not exceptional.",5_2
"How should he global warming scare be combatted? The scientific theories promoted by the global warming advocates are soft targets. Their science is lousy. But critical scientific arguments are highly technical and only of use in getting authoritative scientists to join the skeptical side. To influence the vast majority of citizens, including non-specialist scientists, emotional arguments are necessary. My suggestion would be to paint a picture of a future when global warming promoters get what they want and everyone else loses money, mobility, jobs, etc. Combine this with authoritative scientists saying that global warming dogma is scientifically flawed and you have a winning formula.",5_2
"Most importantly, a human influence on climate is constantly asserted, even in the absence of evidence. Any doubts of that influence are expunged or buried deeply where they are hard to spot.",5_2
"Galloping Camel writes: The IPCC issued its fourth assessment report (AR4) in 2007, updated for the Copenhagen conference in 2009. This report raised a fire storm of criticism which elicited only a feeble response. As a result the IPCC?s credibility has been seriously damaged. Will the new ?AR5? report correct the faults of its predecessors?",5_2
"In response to questions, Mann claimed that the scientific consensus represented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agreed completely with him. On the other hand, his critics had been discredited and were not taken seriously by the same consensus. Inasmuch as Mann must be somewhat familiar with the literature in his own field, it is hard to conclude otherwise than that Mann was lashing out in an attempt to preserve what may be left of his own reputation. Although Mann's disgraceful performance contained nothing of scientific merit, it provided much entertainment and indicated a possible alternative career in Don Rickles-style heckling.",5_2
"""Carbon math,"" wrote Mr. Lazear, ""makes clear that without major effort and a good bit of luck, we are unlikely to control the growth of emissions enough to meet the standards that many climate scientists suggest are necessary."" Those scientists are usually on college or university faculties where securing federal and other grants to study a warming that is not occurring leads to urging limits on carbon dioxide. Others are just huge liars who, like Al Gore, have been making predictions of warming that have not and are not coming true.",5_2
"Prominent climate alarmists had to respond . Some, like Michael Hockey-Stick Mann, remain stalwart. Others, like James Hansen, first admitted the global temperature standstill was real , then, in what may have been a faux pas, said the lack of increased warming was due to an increase in global coal consumption.",5_2
"Seeing is believing, but things are not always what they seem. Skeptical Science , a Web sitedevoted to debunkingglobal warming skepticism,asserts that Spencer??s claim about recent warming being only 50% of what the model consensusprojects is ??? flat-out ridiculously wrong ?? (original emphasis). Observed warming has been ???spot on consistent with climate model projections,?? Skeptical Science contends. The evidence, supposedly, is in the graph below (click on it to activate the presentation).",5_2
"15) How Significant is the Climategate Release of E-Mails? While Climategate does not, by itself, invalidate the IPCC?s case that global warming has happened, or that humans are the primary cause of that warming, it DOES illustrate something I emphasized in my first book, ?Climate Confusion?: climate researchers are human, and prone to bias.",5_2
IPCC Gate Du Jour: UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article,5_2
"What follows is a sordid tale of a graph that overthrew decades of work, conveniently fitted the climate models, and was lauded triumphantly in glossy publication after publication. But then it was crushed when an unpaid analyst stripped it bare. It had been published in the highest most prestigious journal, Nature , but no one had checked it before or after it was spread far and wide. Not Nature , not the IPCC, not any other climate researcher.",5_1
"Section I challenges the scientific basis of AB 1493 and ARB's regulatory proposal. The balance of evidence lies against the belief in an impending climate catastrophe. Global warming alarmism is based on hyperbole and fear, not science.",5_2
"Baliunas: The science altogether is unsettled, but we know for sure that the models that make the predictions into the future are exaggerating the warmth. . . . The fact that we stop emitting carbon dioxide will do nothing to change the course of the climate. . . .",5_1
"Lord Monckton's speech was anticipated by all and he didn't disappoint. His tongue-in-cheek British humor was entertaining, but then Monckton turned serious. It was because of Lord Monckton that the ""Hockey Stick"" report by the IPPC was thoroughly discredited. As Monckton described it, bogus facts were used to construct the computer model in an attempt to show that the rate of global warming is accelerating and that it's because of man.",5_1
"I??m assuming that CA readers are aware that, once the Yamal series got on the street in 2000, it got used like crack cocaine by paleoclimatologists, and of its critical role in many spaghetti graph reconstructions, including, most recently, a critical role in the Kaufman reconstruction.",5_1
"The IPCCs pundits like to claim that the published evidence for humanity causing warming greatly outweighs any published evidence against it. This appeal to majority opinion on their part is pretty selective, though. They had no trouble discarding hundreds of research papers supporting evidence for the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age when they so uncritically embraced the infamous Hockey Stick reconstructions of past temperature change.",5_1
"However, several assessments have shown that the techniques and methods used to derive and verify the IPCC's climate predictions are fundamentally flawed. They indicate that the IPCC's central claims that the present warming trend is unusual, caused by human activities and will result in serious harm are not supported by scientific forecasts. Rather, these claims are opinions that are no more likely to be right than wrong.",5_2
"Read here . All of a sudden, global warming alarmists are blaming the cold and snowy weather on human CO2-caused global warming. For those who don't appreciate the irony of the previous sentence, it has become a world-wide joke that all, and every , worldly condition is a direct result of human CO2 global warming.",5_2
"I've encountered some folks who appear offended by the title of my new book Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax. Why do you call it a ""hoax""? they ask. Why not refer to the matter as a debate? The reason is quite simple: A debate describes a discussion in which participants competitively argue opposing points of view that are assumed to be based upon honest positions.",5_2
This is the second episode in the Cobar ACORN-SAT series examining BoM adjustments to the CDO temperature data here I start to look at adjustments to minimum temperatures. The 1st episode looked at maximum temperatures. A list of ACORN adjustments to Cobar data is here and you can see the first min adjustment listed is 1st Jan 1972 meaning the adjustment factor applies to all data earlier than that. You will see it is labelled as Statistical meaning there is no evidence for it in station diaries or admin records but it derives from computer driven comparisons sifting data differences from multiple stations as far away as Parkes and Hillston see map. In this case of the 4th adjustment the following stations data was used.,5_1
"By 1989, Ann Henderson-Sellers was talking in terms of 100 years, and hinted that it might even be as much as 500 years. In effect, the lack of sufficient global warming this century has not caused the modelers to question their theoretical assumptions, or their models, but merely to seek excuses.",5_1
"NCDC and NASA diligently attempt to ignore this phenomenon, and adjust about 0.1 degrees F for UHI.",5_1
"Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms (L.A. Times) In the text above, an activist named Ms Neela Banerjee is crying that the ""deniers"" have succeeded in many states of the U.S. in their efforts to regulate the expansion of the global warming propaganda at schools. At some places, teachers are required to discuss the existence and/or arguments of climate skeptics.",5_2
"Even when climate alarmists cheat by cherry-picking the data they use to show climate models are consistent with observed temperatures, their efforts fail.",5_1
"Robert Pielke Jr (c/f wattsupwiththat) gives a more scientific (and thorough) debunking of the basis of the report, concluding This report is an embarrassment to the GHF and to those who have put their names on it as representing a scientifically robust analysis. It is not even close. Link broken (02/13) , but referred to by Delingpole in the Telegraph and Climate Depot",5_2
"Solomon also checked on a science historian named Naomi Oreskes ""who had arrived at an absurd findingthat no studies in a major scientific database questioned the UN view of climate change.""",5_2
"So when he says I merely insist that a scientific debate should take place in the scientific literature he is telling a massive lie. His own blog is testament to that. Along with every magazine article, interview and opinion piece.",5_2
"So it would appear the temperatures that NOAA now declare for 1934 are no more than a theoretical reconstruction. But without the transparency to show how this has been done, how can we have any confidence that it has been done properly. There is a potential discrepancy of 0.6F in Virginia; if this is extended across the whole country, it would destroy the claim that this July was the hottest month on record as July 1936 was only 0.13F cooler on NOAAs record. Indeed this would only the 5th warmest July in the CONUS.",5_1
"By oversimplifying the climate story, it appears that the IPCC's projections are just straightforward physics: The 2 C to 6 C projected rise in global average temperature is the direct, linear result of increasing CO2. But in reality, the IPCC claims that CO2, acting alone, will result in only a 1.2 C rise in temperature. The rest depends on whether the climate amplifies (positive feedback) or diminishes (negative feedback) CO2 forcing.",5_1
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"In addition to tweaking recent temperature readings to be higher, NOAA's revisions to earlier original data have consistently made past temperatures cooler.",5_1
"The real wild card is in the behaviour of clouds, which have a number of strong effects (both on albedo and LW trapping) and could in theory cause a large further amplification or suppression of AGW-induced warming. High thin clouds trap a lot of LW (especially at night when their albedo has no effect) and low clouds increase albedo. We really dont know from first principles which effect is likely to dominate, we do know from first principles that these effects could be large, given our current state of knowledge. GCMs dont do clouds very well but they do mostly (all?) suggest some further amplification from these effects. Thats really all that can be done from first principles.",5_1
Skeptics assert that the influence of carbon dioxide on the earths temperatures and on climate is greatly overstated and the position of the advocates is unsupported by physical evidence.,5_1
"Hes right that the consensus is real (among government funded climate scientists). But thats not evidence about the climate, its evidence about scientific processes, monopoly science, and university culture not the climate. The problem for Manne is that this assumes that 1/ science-the-human-practice is uncorruptible, and 2/ scientists are unaffected by human ambitions, money, fame, bias or ...uh... simple error. Can humans be human? We skeptics think so.",5_1
"How do theyattributethe heatwave to global warming, if they dont even understand what caused it?",5_1
"Lets take a look at how well the CMIP3 climate models simulated the lack of warming for the Indian & Pacific Oceans Plus sea surface temperature data over the last 19+ years. See Figure 4. The multi-model ensemble mean of the CMIP3-archived climate models simulate continued warming of that dataset during that period. The simulated sea surface temperatures marched happily on their way skyward. Why? Because theyre FORCED by greenhouse gases, while the sea surface temperatures of the global oceans are not. As noted on the graph, If The SST Anomalies Of The Indian & Pacific Oceans Plus Dataset Were Warmed By Greenhouse Gases They Would Have Warmed 0.31 Deg C.But they havent warmed.",5_1
"Reality may be a bit simpler, or much more complicated. But the reason this is all so important is that if there is no good explanation for the lack of warming, then an increasingly viable alternative is that we have overestimated the gross sensitivity of temperature to carbon dioxide in our computer models.",5_1
"The IPCC says in its latest report: ""The differences in radiative forcing estimates between the present day and the start of the industrial era for solar irradiance changes and volcanoes are both very small compared to the differences in radiative forcing estimated to have resulted from human activities. As a result, in today's atmosphere, the radiative forcing from human activities is much more important for current and future climate change than the estimated radiative forcing from changes in natural processes. ""(Ch.2, p.137) This position will be more closely considered. The change in the total solar radiation since 1750 is estimated by the IPCC to 0.12 (-0.06 / +0.18) W/m2 (Ch.2, Table 2.12). This value is of the order of the relative change per decade of satellite measurements. ACRIM has measured as for the cycles 21-23% or 0.5W/m2 0037. The absolute error is about the satellite but with 3W/m2. How could you determine, however, without satellites in the past such small changes is not explained. To a completely different result, however come Solanki and Fligge (CRL 26 (1999) 2465). Their reconstruction shows the next graphic: Both the absolute and the relative values are more than one order of magnitude larger than the values specified by the IPCC.",5_1
"An example of how to scare people by cherry picking - the use of selected data - is shown in The Department of Infrastructures State of Australian Cities Report , which claimed that the ocean near Perth was rising at three times the global average. They did not use all the data available (from 1897), but from 1993, which happens to be the lowest level in local tide gauges since 1941. This is shown on Fig. 1, but it is clearer on Fig. 2 for Hillarys. If it had used 1999 instead of 1993, it would show that sea level was falling. By cherry picking suitable dates you can get any rate and outcome - you want.",5_1
"UK ""Scientific"" Projections of Global Warming Impact Found To Be Entirely Without Merit & Misleading",5_1
"It's not clear that we need any structure for limiting ""greenhouse gases,"" so shaky is the science and so tenuous the relation between ""global warming"" and internationally enforceable emissions limits targeted against fossil fuels.",5_1
"The hypothesis of damaging, man-made warming is a long way from being proven and, given the recent trend in the peer-reviewed literature, is well on the way to being disproven. Recent cooling of the planet further suggests that man-made warming is at best too weak to be detected in the noise of natural internal variability.",5_1
"Many of us came to the conclusion that the case for the currently promoted anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is very weak. We also know that it is always wrong to pick a simple, attractive, perhaps appealing scientific hypothesis, especially when it is not sufficiently tested and non-contentiously pushed forward, and to base ambitious, radical and far-reaching policies on it ? without paying attention to all the arguments and to all the direct and indirect as well as opportunity costs associated with it. The feeling that this is exactly what we have been experiencing motivated me to write a book with the title Blue Planet in Green Shackles, which was published in May 2007 and in which I attempted to put the global warming debate into a broader perspective. A year after its publication, I was extremely pleased to get a book An Appeal to Reason, A Cool Look at Global Warming, in many respects similar to mine, written by Nigel Lawson.",5_1
"The next graph overlays Hansens 1988 forecasts (blue) on his 1981 forecasts. Sometime between 1981 and 1998, he completely lost the plot.",5_1
"Where does this leave us? In paleoclimate terms, using the adjustment for dissolution as calculated above, the temperature differences in the Pacific Warm Pool are less than one would expect. My guess is that the dissolution adjustment in glacial times will be less than in warm times ??? there??s substantial evidence at modern sites that dissolution is not as serious a problem at cooler sites. However, as long as one is speculating on the proportion of dissolution in the foraminifera, there are layers of uncertainties that are not even hinted at in Hansen et al 2006. We don??t know what the pre-dissolution values of Mg/Ca for the Holocene Optimum were and so comparing modern instrumental values to core top values is little more than speculation. Having said that, Mg/Ca levels in the Holocene Optimum were relatively warm within the Pleistocene ??? reinforcing the observation that the Holocene is a relatively mild period within the Pleistocene. Prior to the last few years, this was usually believed to be a ???good thing?? in human terms.",5_1
"So, as of 2013, weve had in place a new technology for about a decade that promises to give us the data we need to begin to understand this largest component of the global water cycle. Now consider that there are known ocean processes that portray themselves in the sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, and that we have reasonably complete sea surface temperature records stretching back to the late 1800s. These ocean processes portray themselves as modes of natural variability with patterns in time (cycles) that last for 50 to 80 years. Can we hope now, with only 10 years of data, to understand how those multidecadal processes portray themselves below the surfaces of the oceans? The realistic answer is no.",5_1
"A new pound of black asphalt was added to a U.S. weather station, making it darker and warmer? Has Anthony measured the climate sensitivity to be 50 degrees Celsius per doubling? Or does he have a proof that CO2 is cooling the planet?",5_1
"We are told that it is only long term trends that matter, but it must be remembered that satellite monitoring of sea ice only began in 1979. Such a short period certainly is not long enough to establish long term trends, particularly when the big ocean oscillations work on 60 year cycles.",5_1
"The authors also find major problems in the ""reanalysis"" data of downwelling summertime shortwave radiation and downwelling summertime longwave radiation in comparison to the actual satellite observations, finding,",5_1
1988 ??? Dr Fred Wood published in the Elsevier journal his critique of Jones et al 1986 ??? online with the tetchy Wigley & Jones team reply. Reading Wood and the team reply is a great way to build your understanding of the poor science prevailing around the birth of GW.,5_1
"Just what have he and Catriona Hurd done? They have looked at published OA papers from 1993 to 2014 465 of them, which must have been an incredibly time consuming task mostly laboratory manipulation experiments (manipulating atmospheric CO 2 concentrations associated with ocean water tanks, usually with oceanic organisms, and pH manipulation of the same). They evaluated each one for inappropriate experimental design and/or analysis of results. The main issue and the major problem with the papers, though not the only one, dealt with the replication, or lack of, of experimental units.",5_1
"If the UKMO states theres debate about to the impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on the AMO, and if the AMO is the most dominant mode of multidecadal variations in surface temperatures, then how can UKMO claim its well understood and thatthe 1940s-1970s pause in global warming islinked to a substantial increase in the amount of aerosol in the atmosphere?",5_1
"We deniers, of course, do not have to explain weather events. All we need do is continue to point out that there is no scientific evidence that manmade emissions of carbon dioxide are causing harm.",5_1
"We now show why the hundreds of rocket and atmospheric scientists, physicists, and aeronautical engineers who created the gold standard and final 1976 version of the US Standard Atmosphere Database (created during the ice age scare of the 1970's and just one decade prior to the global warming scare of the 1980's) in effect were ""deniers"" of any significant ""radiative forcing,"" ""heat trapping,"" or ""radiative imbalance"" from any greenhouse gases in their physical chemical calculations of the temperature profile of Earth's entire atmosphere from the surface all the way to the edge of space at ~100 kilometers altitude.",5_1
"Paper 1 provides a good observational summary of observations of a range of climate variables over the past 2-5 decades. In looking at these plots, I was struck by the disagreement among the different measurements/estimates of the same variable, notably humidity/water vapor and cloudiness.",5_1
"But today we are supposed to believe climate variability is due to humans and computer models can now forecast climate changes with amazing accuracy. These models and the alarmist scientists behind them say greenhouse gases will increasingly trigger more severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people, species and ecosystems, a recent UN report insists.",5_1
"As has been acknowledged by numerous scientists, the engine intake data are clearly contaminated by heat conduction from the structure, and as such, never intended for scientific use. On the other hand, environmental monitoring is the specific purpose of the buoys. Adjusting good data upward to match bad data seems questionable, and the fact that the buoy network becomes increasingly dense in the last two decades means that this adjustment must put a warming trend in the data.",5_1
"Over time, thermometers are added, and they slowly migrate south and to both the new, and old, worlds . Eventually, about 1900 A.D., there are sufficient thermometers on the globe to get a partial idea what is happening . But climate is subject to cyclical changes. Some, like the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, have about a 40 to 60 year full cycle length. Others, like solar cycles that run 178 years, and Bond Events a 1500 year cycle , are a bit longer. A 100 year record is inadequate to allow for these events.",5_1
"Direct determination of changes in oceanic heat content over the last 20 years are not in conflict with estimates of the radiative forcing, but the uncertainties remain too large to rationalize e.g., the apparent pause in warming. Wunsch and Heimbach",5_1
"""Professor Turney and his fellow evacuees must accept the embarrassing failure of their mission shows how uncertain the science of climate change really is. They cannot reasonably do otherwise."" The Australian",5_1
No computer model has ever been validated. An early draft of Climate Change 95 had a Chapter titled Climate Models Validation as a response to my comment that no model has ever been validated. They changed the title to Climate Model Evaluation and changed the word validation in the text to evaluation no less than describing what might need to be done in order to validate a model.,5_1
Q 2: Why was the consensus wrong? Why do the models exaggerate? The climate-sensitivity equation says warming is the product of a forcing and a sensitivity parameter. Three problems: the modellers definition of forcing is illogical; their assumptions about the sensitivity parameter are not falsifiable; and their claims that their long-term predictions of doom are reliable are not only empirically disproven but theoretically insupportable.,5_1
"This is a seasonal adjustment to compensate for meltwater on top of the ice, which would ordinarily be viewed as ???open water??. Right about now, the Arctic sea ice gets melt pools forming on the surface. If these are not compensated for, sea ice extent will read artificially low.",5_1
"The reality is that, except in the most general terms, we are unable to satisfactorily explain past variations of climate. Over the recent 2 million years why did the primary mode of climate oscillation change from a 40,000 year (axial tilt) periodicity to one close to 100,000 years (linked to eccentricity)? And how do we explain the recent glacial cycles, given that annual solar insolation intercepted by the Earths disc changes little between near circular and more eccentric orbits? Even the relative regularity in value to which temperatures asymptote during each interglacial, as estimated from Antarctic ice cores, can hardly be attributed to chance yet does not have an explanation!",5_1
"IRag= Certain gases will absorb different wavelengths of radiation (a characteristic of the light ) depending on the construction of the gas. Some gases do not absorb IR , there construction will not allow them to absorb the IR, they may absorb other forms of radiation but as was said above they still radiate IR. Many other materials including water will absorb IR. These should not be included in the term IRags. The words greenhouse gas effect has never been proven by creditable scientific experiments and therefore will only be used when absolutely necessary.",5_1
"There isvery significant (and difficult)challenge of accurately representing the role of snow albedo effects on climate, as well as the role of human activity in altering this albedo over time and space.",5_1
"So the next time anyone says the peer-review process ensures that only decent research gets published, you know how to respond.",5_1
"???In the 1960s and 1970s, a growing scientific consensus held that the Earth was entering a period of global cooling akin to the Little Ice Age,?? says Solomon.",5_1
"There are large uncertainties in underlying assumptions about population growth, economic development, life style choices, technological change, and energy alternatives. . . . Scenarios for future greenhouse gas amounts, especially for CO2 and CH4, are a major source of uncertainty for projections of future climate. . . . The period of record is now long enough to make it useful to compare recent trends with the scenarios. . . . The increase of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the past decade, averaging 0.6 percent per year, has fallen below the IPCC scenarios. The growth of atmospheric CH4 has fallen well below the IPCC scenarios. (emphasis added)",5_1
"Since the complex models have failed in this respect, and since there are insufficient deep-ocean observations to provide reliable quantitative evidence of the putative heat accumulation below 2000 m, still less to determine the mechanism of the imagined heat transfer, still less again to apportion duly the respective contributions of anthropogenic, solar and subsea volcanic influences on the benthic heat accumulation, it is surely unreasonable for our simple model to be expected to do what the complex models have self-evidently failed to do and what cannot be done by any model, simple or complex, unless and until measurements of far higher resolution than is now to hand become available at all points of the oceanic column. For instance, the 3500 automated Argo bathythermograph buoys have a resolution equivalent to taking a single temperature and salinity profile in Lake Superior less than once a year: and before Argo came onstream in the middle of the last decade the resolution of oceanic temperature measurements was considerably poorer even than that, especially in the abyssal strata.",5_1
"While examining tide gauge records from Atlantic City's Steel Pier , Mr. Galvin discovered a remarkable effect apparently caused by spectators who came to watch horse-diving between 1929 and 1978. From old photographs, it was estimated that there must have been about 4,000 spectators who would come to watch. Given that this crowd probably weighed about 150 tons, the pier was subject to significant loading and unloading cycles. The initial 1912-1928 data showed the sea level rising at a rate of 0.12 inches per year. The rate tripled around 1929 when the horses began diving. When the shows were suspended from 1945 to 1953, sea level fell at a rate of 0.06 inches per year. When the diving resumed, the sea level rose again at a rate of 0.16 inches per year.",5_1
"ISCCP-FD and GEWEX-SRB radiation products, as they were available until about December 2005 (!) at TOA and at the surface, were simply compared. We found two major errors which need firstly to be removed completely:",5_1
"While the fit is meaningless, I think that there is a decent possibliity that the Wahl and Ammann no-PC regression could become a statistical classic as one of the most remarkable examples of overfitting that I??ve encountered.",5_1
Petition to President Putin: Kyoto Not Based on Sound Science,5_1
"To listen to the United States' primary agency responsible for monitoring the climate, one would think the end is near as global temperatures continue to rise at an alarming rate. However, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ( NOAA ) own monitoring network specifically designed to monitor global warming contradicts these claims.",5_1
"?There is no scientific consensus? on sea-level rise, say scientists",5_1
The textbooks in question dont deny human-caused global warming is happening; they just accurately report scientists are still debating the question. They present the evidence and ask the students to make up their own minds.,5_1
"There isnt enough data to say with any certainty what will happen to sea levels around the world this century, and there is no scientific consensus to suggest that the rate of the seas rise will accelerate dangerously.",5_1
"Steve my point is that the Cook et al. study is hopelessly confused as well as being largely irrelevant to the complex questions that are raised by the idea of (human-caused) climate change. As to being confused, in one place the paper claims to be exploring the level of scientific consensus that human activity is very likely causing most of the current GW and yet the headline conclusion is based on rating abstracts according to whether humans are causing global warming. These are two entirely different judgements . The irrelevance is because none of the most contentious policy responses to climate change are resolved *even if* we accept that 97.1% of climate scientists believe that human activity is very likely causing most of the current GW (which of course is not what the study has shown). And more broadly, the sprawling scientific knowledge about climate and its changes cannot helpfully be reduced to a single consensus statement, however carefully worded. The various studies such as Cook et al that try to enumerate the climate change consensus pretend it can and that is why I find them unhelpful and, in the sprit of this blog, I would suggest too that they are not helpful for our fellow citizens.",5_1
"Hamilton dutifully says science is all about evidence , not opinions, but he bows to the fake UN Gods of climate, and doesnt seem to notice the irony that the evidence he cites is just a consensus of climate scientists. Somehow it escapes him that a consensus is made of ... opinions? Hamilton rages about the War on Science , but doesnt acknowledge that hes the one who wages it.",5_2
"Mike Hulme: Nuccitelli ""97% consensus article is poorly conceived, poorly designed and poorly executed""",5_1
"More up-to-date reconstructions such as ""alarmist"" Moberg et al. (up) and ""skeptic"" Loehle (down) don't look like hockey sticks and they don't show any statistically significant ""unprecedented changes"" in the industrial era.",5_1
"According to real scientists, the graph also gave extreme weighting to datasets that showed unusual 20 th -century warming at the expense of those that did not. And the program that Mr Mann created to draw the graph would have shown the 20 th century as unusually warm even if random red noise rather than real-world data were fed in. There were numerous other statistical curiosities. Mr Manns graph is perhaps the most laughable and widely-discredited object in the history of bad science supporting worse politics.",5_1
"This one is an absolute 100%, 24-carat gold-plated, gimme for Monckton. The UN Panel??s graph is the infamous ???Hockey stick??. Those that still try to defend it (apart from it??s creators) either haven??t acquainted themselves with the facts or simply don??t understand them. The hockey stick is a reconstruction based on tree ring data which claims to shows the climate history over the past several centuries. There are a number of things wrong with it, but the main case against it is that:-",5_1
"Their non-dendro network uses some data with the axes upside down, e.g. Korttajarvi sediments, which are also compromised by agricultural impact (Tiljander, pers. comm.)",5_1
"Treering proxy temperature measurements from Yamal have a pronounced upturn that helps to create a hockey stick shape with the blade rising in the 20th Century. These were used in Kaufman 2009 to show the Arctic apparently warming fast after 2000 years of steady cooling. This warming starts after thermometer records started. The pattern should therefore show in the thermometer records, especially around Yamal. But it does not.",5_1
"First, here is Figure 1, entitledHockey stick graph of rising global temperatures. Sharp-eyed readers will notice that the Figure goes to 1998 or so,and that it grafts the instrumental record after 1902 onto the proxy record before 1901, with the grafting not mentioned in the caption.",5_1
"Unfortunately Die Zeit forgot to mention that the hockey stick had been debunked thoroughly by Steven McIntyre and Hans von Storch, who labelled the hockey stick chart nonsense, and that Andrew Montford wrote an entire book about the fraud: The Hockey Stick Illusion . They also failed to mention that the National Academy of Sciences had also called Manns methodology flawed.",5_1
Global warming science nemesis Steve McIntyre of the solid Climate Audit site calls the new paper by Rahmstorf and Mann making claims about Atlantic Ocean currents based on proxies rather than onmeasurements much worse than we thought .,5_1
"Thanks for the reply. Ive seen the Jacoby-dArrigo references and, in fact, thats what occasioned my interest. It was included in their northern treeline index which seemed a little odd to me, since the site is far from the treeline. I also notice that the earliest portion of the chronology (not used by Jacoby and dArrigo) is based only on one tree. If you were doing the chronology today, would you include the portion based on only one tree in your site chronology? Also do you know (from past notes or otherwise) any details about potential logging or other forestry operations in the area?",5_1
"Jaworowski illustrates this by comparing ice core data to other CO2 proxy data, such as stomata indices, which gives higher atmospheric CO2, with more variation than the ice core data over the last 8,000 years.",5_1
"i.e. therefore tree rings are useless as a proxy to show that 20th Century temperature rises are unprecedented, and that there was no Medieval Warm Period, since they apparently dont respond to increases in temperature.",5_1
"Even though his work was as dodgy as anyones I feel sorry for Briffa at times. He appears to develop a kind of Stockholm Syndrome towards the hectoring Mann. In his heart he is well aware of the flaws in Manns research and in the early years he is capable of mutiny. 1024334440 , 2002. I am sick to death of Mann stating his reconstruction represents the tropical area just because it contains a few (poorly temperature representative ) tropical series. He is just as capable of regressing these data again any other target series , such as the increasing trend of self-opinionated verbage he has produced over the last few years , and (better say no more). Cook sympathises: Of course, I agree with you. We both know the probable flaws in Mikes recon, particularly as it relates to the tropical stuff. It is puzzling to me that a guy as bright as Mike would be so unwilling to evaluate his own work a bit more objectively.",5_1
"Leaving that aside, did Mann get it right? . There is no doubt that reconstructing past temperatures from proxy data is fraught with danger. Take tree ring records. They sometimes reflect rain or drought rather than temperature. They also get smaller as a tree gets older so annual or even decadal detail is lost.",5_1
"In Mr. Wigleys view at the time, ice cores were unreliable and correlate very poorly with temperature. He said the link between ice core and temperature variation was close to zero and tree rings were less than 50% reliable. The main external candidate is solar, and more work is required to improve the paleo solar forcing record. Another U.S. scientist, Gary Funkhauser of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona, was also cool to the idea of tree rings as indicators of past temperatures. He wrote in September, 1996, that he tried every trick out of my sleeve to get meaningful climate records out of certain tree ring records collected by Russian scientist Stephan Shiyatov.",5_1
*Paleoclimate reconstructions capture quite well moderate long term variability of 50 years and more but fail to pick up the much more variable decadal variability,5_1
"The process quickly gets complicated when proxies from many areas are brought together to map out ancient climate trends for a region. Because different proxies yield varying pictures of changes through time, some paleoclimate maps can look vague and generalized. It's also a matter of having enough computer power to handle not only the data, but to incorporate it with the oceanic, atmospheric, and other models, says Hughes.",5_1
"Aside from solving the various crossword puzzles, the more fundamental issue is: is this a valid way of adjusting the Mannian PC1? Does it make any sense to try to adjust the PC1 (as opposed to the individual chronologies)? What if the growth pulse in the bristlecones was not related to CO2 fertilization ??? an effect denied by other writers in the field?",5_1
"The blink comparator below shows the huge changes which have been made to the US temperature record since 1999. The past has been massively cooled, and the present has been massively warmed. A cooling trend has been turned into a warming trend, by adjusting the data.",5_1
"Indeed, the preponderance of evidence from the officially manipulated temperature datasets indicates fabricated cooling adjustments being applied to periods pre-1980 and a fabricated warming since 1980.",5_1
"Putting these two graphs side by side, you can see huge differences. What is going on? Why does NIWAs graph show strong warming, but graphing their own raw data looks completely different? Their graph shows warming, but the actual temperature readings show none whatsoever!",5_1
"By these calculations (averaging the trend at each site) the raw trend is 0.35 degrees C per 100 years, and the state trend is 0.83C. Thats a warming bias of 133%!",5_1
Official Fake Temperatures By Climate Agencies: The Temperature Fabrication Issue Bigger Than Thought,5_1
"Earths temperature system cannot be adequately measured or controlled. Mathematical criteria devised in the 1960s that ensure a system is measurable, observable and controllable are not satisfied.",5_1
"A different way of looking at this is to normalize the two graphs to 1978, showing how they have massively cooled the past.",5_1
Remember this is 11 years after Hansen??s comments of certainty to the Senate and five years after the 1995 IPCC Report. It is worse now with fewer weather stations and less data than in 1990.,5_1
And this is why I have no doubt that most of what we see in the global temperature is just fractal noise. And here are some other important properties of fractal noise:,5_1
The blue line is how Hansen currently shows Phoenix a sharp warming trend. Apparently the UHI effect in Phoenix has disappeared since he wrote his 1999 paper. He cooled the past by about a degree and warmed the present by almost that much.,5_1
"Several oddities have turned up, unexpected variations which seem to have a pattern relating to station and station geographical location. Some of this may be related to UHI and similar thermal mass / water effects.",5_1
"If people reading iPhones can spot such problems and know the temperature data isn??t valid, and a citizen run CWOP program can use MADIS analysis of the data sight unseen and note it??s FUBAR, why can??t our meteorological experts at The Weather Channel figure it out?",5_1
"Climate realists are generally willing to assume, for the sake of argument, that the Earth has warmed somewhat in recent decades. In fact, though, it is not obvious that even this modest claim is true. Satellite data show no net warming for as long as such data have been collected, i.e., back to 1979. Ocean measurements show no net warming over that period, either; the evidence for warming is based on land measurements. But the accuracy of land measurements depends on proper siting and maintenance of weather stations. One obvious factor is the urban heat island effect: many weather stations are located in cities, which grow warmer as more people and buildings accumulate. Thus, increasing temperatures at such stations may be measuring urban development rather than the climate. We all know that the urban heat island effect is realchance of frost in outlying areasyet the data that alarmists rely upon do not take it into account.",5_1
"The adjustments do seem to be very aggressive in identifying any effects that might have artificially created a cooling trendbut lax in finding and correcting effects that mighthave artificially created a warming trend. First and foremost, the changing urban heat island effect in growing cities seems to be under-corrected (Again there is debate on this -- the proprietors of the model believe they have fixed this with a geographic normalizing, correcting biases from nearby thermometers. I and others believe all they are doing is mathematically smearing the error over a larger geography).",5_1
"Weather stations can no longer be trusted. 90% of the 1,064 weather stations do not meet government standards because contamination is present.",5_1
"But this comment, although it appeared, is now lost in the barrage. And Michael Getner, the PBS ombudsman, is backpedalling the role PBS played in allowing Watts to speak to their viewers. But as they say, when you are taking flak, it means youre over the target. Anthony Watts, through ordinary careful data collation and analysis, threatens the standing of NOAAs assertions about the integrity and accuracy of U.S. temperature records, and that has the alarmosphere in apoplexy.",5_1
"In 1980, a paper by a senior New Zealand meteorologist (JWD Hessell), which was peer-reviewed and published in a reputable science journal, concluded that there was no evidence of New Zealand warming since 1930. The author found that the raw data overstated the extent of warming because thermometers had been affected by shelter, screenage and urbanisation. This directly contradicts the Salinger thesis.",5_1
The sooner these simple facts are acknowledged by responsible journalists the sooner reason will return to this important matter of public interest. Kiwis deserve to have a national temperature record they can trust but at the moment it is dubious.,5_1
"Furthermore, Hansens models predicted the temperature rise if human carbon dioxide emissions were cut back drastically starting in 1988, such that by year 2000 the atmospheric carbon dioxide level was not rising at all. But in reality, the temperature did not even rise that much. Which proves that the climate models dont have a clue about the effect of carbon dioxide on world temperature.",5_1
"Moreover (and you wont find this in the Academy paper), even if you believe, wrongly, that 2014 was the hottest year on record, 2014 was yet another year where the deviation widened between the models hot forecasts and the actual cooler temperatures.",5_1
"The figure is scientifically meaningless. A statistical distribution can be calculated over the results from the some 73 global climate models, but the models have never been validated and only one valid model would have been sufficient. As discussed above, the models have significant, unknown, internal uncertainty. Further, CO2 emissions do not explain the significant warming of the first part of the 20 th century, the current pause in warming of at least a decade (in the atmosphere and at least 15 years on the surface) and the regional nature of the of the warming, which is occurring in the northern part of the Northern Hemisphere with little warming elsewhere.",5_1
"Lee et al.s controlled experiment (climate model) showed increased flow through the Indonesian Throughflow during the 2007/08 and 2008/09 La Nias. This is basically the explanation for why the ocean heat content of the Indian Ocean did not cool proportionally during those La Nias. Note, however, in Figure 3 that the ocean heat content of the Indian Ocean did drop during the 2005/06 La Nia, which seems to contradict Lee et al.s model. The Lee et al. model also did not appear to respond to the 1998-01 La Nia, while the data indicate the warming of the Indian Ocean actually began then, after a drop a few years earlier.",5_1
"Claim C: On its face, the climate model assumptions (including high positive feedbacks) of substantial warming from small changes in CO2 are inconsistent with relatively modest past warming. Scientists use what is essentially an arbitrary plug variable to handle this, assuming anthropogenic aerosols have historically masked what would be higher past warming levels. The arbitrariness of the plug is obvious given that most models include a cooling effect of aerosols in direct proportion to their warming effect from CO2, two phenomenon that should not be linked in nature, but are linked if modelers are trying to force their climate models to balance. Further, since aerosols are short lived and only cover about 10% of the globes surface in any volume, nearly heroic levels of cooling effects must be assumed, since it takes 10C of cooling from the 10% area of effect to get 1C cooling in the global averages.",5_1
"Each of the complex climate models used by the IPCC grossly overstates the amount of warming the planet has experienced during the past 120 or so years. In addition, based on the idea that temperatures should rise right along with CO 2 emissions, these models have missed the entire 18+ year hiatus in rising temperatures.",5_1
"In order to take precautions, you have to know what you are taking them against. Some computer models project that the global temperature in ten years time will be warmer than todays. Other computer modelsproject that global temperature will be cooler ten years hence. Read more here .",5_1
"In summing up their discussion of the subject, therefore, Laxon et al. simply state that their results ???show that errors are present in current simulations of Arctic sea ice,?? and they thus conclude, in the closing sentence of their paper, that ???until models properly reproduce the observed high-frequency, and thermodynamically driven, variability in sea ice thickness, simulations of both recent, and future, changes in Arctic ice cover will be open to question.??",5_1
"In September, 2008, Der Spiegel here wrote: More heat waves, no snow in the winter: After years of calculation work, the climate prognoses of the German government are complete. With unprecedented accuracy they predict how the climate will change by the year 2100 region by region. Unfortunately the unprecedented accuracy theyve seen up to nowis not what they had in mind.",5_1
"The geophysicist slammed the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), saying their stand on global warming is incorrect because only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.",5_1
"The evidence, therefore, indicates that the current generation of climate models (when run as a group, with the CMIP5 prescribed forcings) do not reproduce the observed global warming over the past 20 years, or the slowdown in global warming over the past fifteen years.",5_1
"Notice that the potential positive bias in model feedbacks can, in some sense, be attributed to a lack of model complexity compared to the real climate system. By complexity here I mean cloud variability which is not simply the result of a cloud feedback on surface temperature. This lack of complexity in the model then requires the model to have positive feedback built into it (explicitly or implicitly) in order for the model to agree with what looks like positive feedback in the observations.",5_1
"It is also the scenario which, when fed into the worlds climate models, produces the greatest warming by the end of the centuryabout 4.5C (although the world abounds with observations that suggests that this temperature rise is overblown, but that is the subject of a different analysis).",5_1
"Climate Models: On the Global Warming Policy Foundation blog, David Whitehouse discusses the failure of the IPCC to discard models that clearly have no predictive value. The average of the models used greatly overestimate the increase in temperatures from additional CO2. The continued use of these models illustrates a failure in IPCC methodology procedures. Discarding models that greatly overestimate warming would result in a significant reduction in the upper bound of climate sensitivity estimates. Such action would render many climate issues, such as species extinction, moot. The huge amounts of money provided by climate alarm would shrink, endangering many climate researchers.",5_1
"So, even with all of 140 cherries picked, we still see evidence there is something wrong with the IPCC models in general. And I believe the problem is they are too sensitive, and thus are predicting too much future global warming.",5_1
why cant climate models properly simulate sea ice losses in the Arctic Ocean or sea ice gains in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica?,5_1
"The overall picture is clear. Scenario A is the emissions scenario from 1990 that is closest to the observed emissions outturn, and yet there has only been a third of a degree of global warming since 1990 about half of what the IPCC had then predicted with what it called substantial confidence.",5_1
"Storch: If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations.",5_1
"While this might sound reasonable, it turns out that the radiative signature of forcing is much larger than that of feedback. As a result, one can get pretty good agreement between models and observations even when the model feedbacks are greatly in error. Another way of saying this is that you can get good agreement between the model behavior and observations whether the cloud feedbacks are positive OR negative. This is another fact I will be demonstrating on December 16.",5_1
"The authors compared recently constructed temperature data sets from Antarctica, based on data from ice cores and ground weather stations, to 20th century simulations from computer models used by scientists to simulate global climate. While the observed Antarctic temperatures rose by about 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.2 degrees Celsius) over the past century, the climate models simulated increases in Antarctic temperatures during the same period of 1.4 degrees F (0.75 degrees C).",5_1
"???observed surface solar radiation, as well as land and sea surface temperature spatio-temporal variations over the Euro-Mediterranean region are only reproduced when simulations include the realistic aerosol variations?? which the authors state are ???however hardly reproduced by global and regional climate models??",5_1
"The group, which includes seven Apollo astronauts and two former directors of NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, are dismayed over the failure of NASA, and specifically the Goddard Institute For Space Studies (GISS), to make an objective assessment of all available scientific data on climate change. They charge that NASA is relying too heavily on complex climate models that have proven scientifically inadequate in predicting climate only one or two decades in advance.",5_1
"The models systematically underestimate dust emission, transport and optical depth, and year-to-year changes in these properties bear little resemblance to observations, the authors wrote. These findings cast doubt on the ability of these models to simulate the regional climate and the response of African dust to future climate change.",5_1
"Read here and here . Climate models are dependent on atmospheric relative humidity staying constant if CO2 increases are going to cause global temperatures to increase. Again, real world evidence proves models are wrong.",5_1
"Twenty-eight million weather balloons had shown by 1999 that the key assumption in the climate models was wrong. Without feedbacks, the models only produce 1.2C of warming with a doubling of CO2. With feedbacks the simulations ramp that up to a dangerous 3 ??? 4 degrees C, and water vapor was the most important feedback. It??s just no fun for the Global Worriers without it.",5_1
"These studies arebasedon models, ofwhich only a portion of which represent basic physics (e.g. the pressure gradient force, advection and the universal gravitational constant), with the remainder of the physics parameterized withtunedengineeringcode (e.g see ).",5_1
"The two main points here are (1) the observations are much cooler than the mid-range of the model spread and are at theminimum of the model simulations and (2) the satelliteadjustment for surface comparisons is exceptionally good. The implication of (1) is that the best estimates of the IPCC models are too warm, or that they are too sensitive to CO2 emissions.",5_1
"The Zombie in the room here is the dead science being revived endlessly by Brown and the IPCC, despite the evidence that climate models are based on flawed assumptions, which we know from 28 million weather balloons , 3000 ARGO buoys , 800,000 years of ice cores , and 30 years of satellites .",5_1
I think what they mean is that this is a somewhat implausible post-hoc rationalisation of the failure of the models to conform to reality; perhaps the copyeditor missed it.,5_1
The extended calculation using coupled runs confirms the earlier inference from the AMIPruns that underestimating the negative feedback from cloud albedo and overestimating the positive feedback from the greenhouse effect of water vapor over the tropical Pacific during ENSO is a prevalent problem of climate models.,5_1
"The references here independently show that core model assumptions are wrong. Models assume that relative humidity will stay the same over the tropics as the world warms, that clouds are a positive feedback and not a negative one, and that cloud changes are a feedback and not a forcing in their own right. These are three critical and demonstrable errors.",5_1
"Modeled versus observed correlations with time from 1982 to 2011 are shown in the following two maps. The scale below each map is correlation coefficient, not temperature. A positive correlation coefficient of 1.0 (hot pink) would indicate an area warmed linearly from 1982 to 2011, while a negative correlation coefficient of -1.0 (purple) would indicate an area cooled linearly over that period. Basically, what the maps are showing are the modeled and observed warming and cooling trend patterns. There are no similarities. Keep those two images in mind the next time you see a peer-reviewed paper that projects regional climate on decadal or multidecadal bases. The modelers have no hope of doing so unless they can predict ENSO and its impacts on regional sea surface and land surface temperatures. They simulate both poorly.",5_1
"However, there is absolutely no evidence that the upper end climate models are anywhere close to being right.",5_1
"Perhaps the trade-winds are affecting the climate. But what drives the trade-winds? The models cant predict the trade-winds until they understand what drives them. If it turns out to be cloud cover changes, or lunar orbits, or solar magnetic effects, cosmic ray effects, or all of the above that means there is another whole factor or lots of them that the models did not include. Every warming factor added to the models reduces the power of CO2 as a driver. How much does this reduce your future projections by? (Or your future job prospects?)",5_1
"The models perform poorly in the North Pacific (Figure 16) and in the South Pacific (Figure 17), more than doubling the observed warming rates.",5_1
"The simulation of clouds in climate models remains challenging. There is very high confidence that uncertainties in cloud processes explain much of the spread in modelled climate sensitivity. However, the simulation of clouds in climate models has shown modest improvement relative to models available at the time of the AR4, and this has been aided by new evaluation techniques and new observations for clouds. Nevertheless, biases in cloud simulation lead to regional errors on cloud radiative effect of several tens of watts per square meter.",5_1
"This report relates to climate change scenarios based on computer modelling. Models involve simplifications of the real processes that are not fully understood. Accordingly, no responsibility is accepted by the CSIRO for the accuracy of forecasts or predictions inferred from this report or for any persons interpretations, deductions, conclusions or actions in reliance on this report.",5_1
"Climate models are portrayed by the media and by political entities like the IPCC as splendid tools for forecasting future climate. The climate science community, however, is well aware that climate models are deeply flawed. Rarely, if ever, are the models chronic problems presented to the public and policymakers. In this post, I cited scientific studies that showed that the models are flawed at simulating, for example:",5_1
"The two main points here are (1) the observations are much cooler than the mid-range of the model spread and are at the minimum of the model simulations and (2) the satellite adjustment for surface comparisons is exceptionally good. The implication of (1) is that the best estimates of the IPCC models are too warm, or that they are too sensitive to CO2 emissions.",5_1
"Climate models are unable to replicate the observed behavior in the patterns of changes in the daily temperature range. Instead, the models warm daily high temperatures too fastprobably because they dont account properly for cloud dynamics.",5_1
The left panel shows the models predictions to 2050. The right panel shows the discrepancy of half a Celsius degree between prediction and reality since 2005.,5_1
* Continuing scientific dispute exists over whether observations are confirming or disconfirming key short-run predictions of climate models such as an increase in tropospheric water vapor and an increase in tropical tropospheric surface temperatures relative to tropical surface temperatures;,5_1
"Computer simulations of the climate, referred to as general circulation models (GCMs), can be used to assess the sensitivity of climate to changes that might result from increased greenhouse gases. However, because physical feedbacks between Earths atmosphere (including clouds), the ocean, and the biosphere remain incomplete in the models, their use as a tool is limited.",5_1
"The most important measure of model skill is of course its ability to predict previously unmeasured (or unnoticed) phenomena or connections in ways that are more accurate than some simpler heuristic. Many examples exist, from straightforward predictions (ahead of time) of the likely impact of the Pinatubo eruption (Hansen et al 1992), the skillful projection of the last three decades of warming (Hansen et al 1988; Hargreaves 2010) and correctly predicting the resolution of disagreements between different sources of observation data e.g., between ocean and land temperature reconstructions in the last glacial period (Rind and Peteet 1985), or the satellite and surface temperature records in the 1990s (Mears et al 2003; Thorne et al 2011). Against this must be balanced predictions that did not match subsequent observationsfor instance the underestimate of the rate of Arctic sea ice loss in CMIP3 (Stroeve et al 2007).",5_1
"The successful launch of this new atmospheric monitoring system and its detailed diagnosis of clouds will be a very important achievement. The need for this data shows that the understanding and skillful prediction of the climate system has more uncertainties than has been recognized in multi-decadal climate projections, such as reported by the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments.",5_1
"Imagine that! No consensus , not even in terms of the sign of the longwave cloud feedback. Perhaps the GCMs really are cursed. And to rid existing models of that possibility, Huang concludes his paper by stating that ""more studies are still required to understand how clouds modify global warming, even with regard to the longwave aspect alone.""",5_1
"Aside from that, I think some of the criticism is a bit exaggerated. But it really depends on what you want to look at. Some models are worse than others, but there are some models which are used in seasonal prediction and are able to provide some description of ENSO albeit with biases. My own analysis of various GCMs also suggest that they reproduce the characteristics of the NAO too.",5_1
"5. These results are the sensitivity of the models with respect to their own outputs , not the sensitivity of the real earth. It is their internal sensitivity.",5_1
"I don??t know if the authors used NCAR-PCM or NCAR-CCSM3. But note that NCAR-CCSM3 shows more warming than typical of models. I would suggest that if NCAR-CCSM3 was chosen, one might need to take the projections about impact of farming with a grain of salt. That said: it??s possible precipitation is the greater effect and my comparison of models shown above can??t tell us anything about that.",5_1
Is it really possible that the simple no-change forecast of 21st Century temperatures is better than the IPCC projections from expensive and complex computer models?,5_1
"Pat Michaels is in San Francisco this week attending the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and presenting a poster detailing the widening mismatch between observations of the earths temperature and climate model projections of its behavior. Since most global warming concern (including that behind regulatory action) stems from the projections of climate models as to how the earths temperature will evolve as we emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (as a result of burning fossil fuels to produce energy), it is important to keep a tab on how the model projections are faring when compared with reality. That they are faring not very well should be more widely knownPat will spread the word while there.",5_1
"However, it should be understood that RCMs operate under a set of boundary conditions set by whatever GCM is being used. Hence, if the GCM does not do an adequate job of reproducing the climate signal of a particular region, the RCM will simply mimic those inaccuracies and biases, and propagate the uncertainties even further, albeit at a regional scale.",5_1
"Even when climate alarmists cheat by cherry-picking the data they use to show climate models are consistent with observed temperatures, their efforts fail. John Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville shows climate models project from 157 percent to 297 percent more warming than has been recorded by any data set in the global mid-troposphere where the models indicate greenhouse gases should amplify warming the most. Models projected 230 percent more warming than the median value of the combined observational data sets. READ MORE",5_1
World leaders are making critical decisions based upon predictions of General Circulation Models or Global Climate Models GCMs) that humans are causing global climate change or global warming. Global climate models attempt to describe the earth's climate and are used in variety of applications. These include the investigation of the possible causes of climate change and the simulation of past and future climates. But these models are limited in important ways.,5_1
"As they describe it, they explored ""the potential skill of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) decadal hindcasts from 9 GCMs and their ensembles over the period 1960-2010 from a hydrological perspective."" And what did they thereby find? Quoting them again, they say that ""the CMIP5 decadal simulations of rainfall exhibit very low skill when assessed across Australia and across a range of time-scales from yearly to longer which extend to the entire decade."" And it is this finding that leads them to ultimately conclude that the current state of precipitation predictability ""is not enough to drive impact models at decadal timescales and to influence policy and decision making.""",5_1
"Dr Benny Peiser, of Lord Lawsons Global Warming Policy Foundation, argued todays report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is based on flawed models which do not give an accurate prediction of a future change in temperature.",5_1
Uncertainty about important feedback mechanisms is one reason why the ultimate goal of climate modeling forecasting reliably the future of key variables such as temperature and rainfall patterns is not realizable.,5_1
"Too, we dont have accurate actual measurements of all locations, levels, and components (like temperature, moisture, wind speed, and so on) of the atmosphere, land, ocean (and outer space). The number of measurements we do have is minuscule compared to the actual size of the earth. So it is hard to reconcile the output of models with what the actual state of the earth is, though, of course, this is a necessary step. The process whereby the models are adjusted so that they conform to both the actual measurements and to the scientists expectations is called tuning . All models undergo extensive tuning until the majority of it users are satisfied of the output.",5_1
"In his book, Climate Change: A Natural Hazard, William Kininmonth, former head of Australias National Climate Centre says, The simple one-dimensional energy balance model used by the IPCC to justify its radiative forcing hypothesis is unrealistic in its portrayal of processes at the earth-atmosphere interface. The IPCC model suggests that the heat and latent energy exchange between the underlying surface and the atmosphere is a direct response to the imbalance of solar energy and terrestrial radiation at the surface. Such a proposal is at odds with the physics of the surface energy exchange processes. Its one of many errors made to achieve a result; actions that are the opposite of even poor science.",5_1
"The first peer reviewed study determines that today's climate models will never be able to predict the climate. Essentially, climate models assume linear climate relationships yet the real-world climate is non-linear and chaotic - defying intermediate and long-term predictive ""expertise"" with predictable regularity.",5_1
"In the absence of model verification or falsification, Stainforth et al. (2007) describes the challenges of building confidence in climate models. Owing to the long time scales present, particularly in the ocean component, there is no possibility of atrue cycle of model improvement and confirmation, particularly since the life cycle of an individual model version (order of a few years) is substantially less than the simulation period (order of centuries). Model projections of future climate states relate to a state of the system that has not been previously experienced. Hence it is impossible to calibrate the model for the future climate state or confirm the usefulness of the forecast.",5_1
"Most of the fundamental problems in our still immature understanding of climate have remained unresolved for decades. Some cannot be resolved at all. The U.N.?s climate panel admitted in 2001 what has been known for 50 years: Because climate is a ?coupled, non-linear, chaotic object,? reliable long-term climate prediction is impossible.",5_1
"I welcome articles from you that show the IPCC models have skill on the multi-decadal time periods. Until you (or others) do, all the IPCC-type models can tell us is that the climate system is sensitive to the addition of CO2, other greenhouse gases, aerosols and land use/land cover change. We do not need a multi-hundred million dollar modeling program to provide regional and local impact scenarios when the models have shown no skill at doing this on multi-decadal time scales (even when run in a hindcast mode).",5_1
"However, for the 15-year trend interval corresponding to the latest observation period 1998-2012, only 2% of the 62 CMIP5 and less than 1% of the 189 CMIP3 trend computations are as low as or lower than the observed trend. Applying the standard 5% statistical critical value, we conclude that the model projections are inconsistent with the recent observed global warming over the period 1998- 2012.",5_1
"???To date, not one of theirs and other computer models proving global warming have been accurate.?? ??? Alan Caruba",5_1
"A paper published today in the Journal of Climate finds that ensembles of climate models used by the IPCC to predict future climate change""may lead to overly confident climate predictions."" The authors find that many models share the same computer code, have the same limitations, and ""tend to be fairly similar,"" resulting in confirmation bias. Indeed, empirical observations have shown far less warming than the ""90% confident"" IPCC models in AR4, as shown in this poster by John Christy:",5_1
"Given the inadequacies of current climate models, how should we interpret the multi-model ensemble simulations of the 21 st century climate used in the IPCC assessment reports? This ensemble-of-opportunity is comprised of models with generally similar structures but different parameter choices and calibration histories. McWilliams (2007) and Parker (2010) argue that current climate model ensembles are not designed to sample representational uncertainty in a thorough or strategic way. Stainforth et al. (2007) argue that model inadequacy and an inadequate number of simulations in the ensemble preclude producing meaningful probability density functions (PDFs) from the frequency of model outcomes of future climate. Nevertheless, as summarized by Parker (2010), it is becoming increasingly common for results from individual multi-model and perturbed-physics simulations to be transformed into probabilistic projections of future climate, using Bayesian and other techniques. Parker argues that the reliability of these probabilistic projections is unknown, and in many cases they lack robustness. Knutti et al. (2008) argues that the real challenge lies more in how to interpret the PDFs rather whether they should be constructed in the first place. Stainforth et al. (2007) warns against over interpreting current model results since they could be contradicted by the next generation of models, undermining the credibility of the new generation of model simulations.",5_1
"Trying to take the planetary energy balance equationand torture it into something that it was never intended to do is pointless and misleading at best. The planetary energy balance equation is the simplest possible climate model. On the other hand there are the general circulation global climate models, which are of enormous complexity. In between is a whole class of energy balance climate models, which were very popular in the 1950s 1980s, the Wikipedia gives a good introduction to this class of models, which includes box models, radiative-convective models, higher dimension versions of the zero-dimensional planetary energy balance model, and Earth system models of intermediate complexity (statistical/dynamical models). Different models can be used depending the nature of questions asked and the pertinent time scales.",5_1
"Model simulations are able to show how a possible future might look like. However, it is very difficult regionally to make reliable conclusions as we run against the limits of what is possible with climate models today. You can only fathom the possibilities.",5_1
"We couldnt say it any better once again, the real world is not cooperating with expectations from predictions from numerical climate models for a world of never-seen-before environmental conditions resulting from ever-increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.",5_1
"In his new paper, Lovejoy applies the same approach to the 15-year period after 1998, during which globally averaged temperatures remained high by historical standards, but were somewhat below most predictions generated by the complex computer models used by scientists to estimate the effects of greenhouse-gas emissions.",5_1
"And the NRC reminds us that there are other fundamental uncertainties as well. There is a ""wide range of uncertainty inherent in current model predictions of global climate change"" that can only be reduced by ""major advances in understanding and modeling"" of greenhouse gas emissions, the role of aerosols in the global climate system, and the incredibly complex ""feedback"" mechanisms in the Earth's climate.",5_1
The models say the Earth system ought to accrue energy at the rate of 3W/m 2 . Instead the best estimate we have of recent energy balance suggests we??ve been losing energy at a rate of about 0.1 W/m 2 (Knox and Douglass 2010). The models don??t match the observations.,5_1
"Simulations using several IPCC-class general circulation models (GCMs) are used to demonstrate that the adjustment to climate change itself takes place over decadal timescales, meaning that ENSO response is not statistically significant during the 21st century. This implies that current model intercomparisonexperiments are insufficient to measure the true range of ENSO climate sensitivity. However, significant changes to atmospheric teleconnectionsmay take place within the 21st century: the NCARCommunity Climate System Model version 4 (CCSM4), for example, predicts harsher winters in the Southwestern US during La Nia and weaker Australian teleconnections during both El Nio and La Nia.",5_1
"3) Chaotic Uncertainty. It is well understood that climate is a chaotic object and climate models reflect that property. The outcome of a particular model run (???simulation??) depends sensitively on the initial conditions; even minute changes can lead to greatly differing outcomes. For example, the five runs of a Japanese MRI model show temperature trends that differ by almost a factor of 10, an order of magnitude. (If more runs had been performed, the spread would have been even greater.) One can show that taking the mean of an ensemble of more than 10 runs leads to an asymptotic value for the trend. However, most modelers face constraints on time and money and are not able to carry out so many runs. For example, of the 22 models in the IPCC compilation of ???20 CEN?? there are 5 single run models, 5 two-run models, and only 7 models with four or more runs.",5_1
"When the data sets are compared to model projections for the tropical mid-troposphere, where climate models say a tropical hot spot should emerge, the models do even worse, overstating the warming by between 169 and 414 percent overestimating the median of the observational data sets for the tropics by 330 percent.",5_1
"Even in the absence of external forcing, climate models often exhibit long-term trends that cannot be attributed to natural variability . This so called climate drift arises for various reasons including: perturbations to the climate system on coupling component models together and deficiencies in model physics and numerics.To illustrate this we have focussed on simulated trends over the second half of the 20th century Below depths of 1000 to 2000m, drift dominates over any forced trend in most regions. As such steric sea-level is strongly affected and for some models and regions the sea-level trend direction is reversed.",5_1
GoshWhere Did All of Those Expensive Climate Models Go Wrong?,5_1
"Pearce also tries to suggest that forecasting climate change is like forecasting the seasons i.e., easy. Unfortunately, Edward Lorenz proved that claim to be false very nearly half a century ago, in the landmark paper in a climatological journal that founded chaos theory. Lorenz demonstrated that unless we knew the values of the millions of parameters that define the climate to a precision that is not and can never be in practice attainable the long-range prediction of climatic behavior would be impossible by any method. Yet the UNs case for climate alarm is based almost exclusively on the output of models that have been demonstrated, time and again, to fail. Not one of the models on which the UN relies, for instance, had predicted that there would be 15 years without any statistically-significant global warming the years 1995-2009 inclusive.",5_1
"Callaghan and Power's analysis of their lengthy and comprehensive new data base reveals results that appear to be totally at odds with the contentions of the IPCC, which are based more on the output of numerical models of the atmosphere than on real-world observations. And their results also highlight the fact that even real-world observations may be misleading, especially if they do not cover a long enough time period to reveal the oscillatory nature of various aspects of earth's climate. References",5_1
This is yet another reason why we need to move away from using multi-decadal global climate models as the tool to communicate to policymakers. They are NOT skillful multi-decadal projection tools even in terms of global average radiative forcing.,5_1
How Have Climate Models Done Predicting Cloud Coverage? Not Too Well,5_1
"Just add sea ice onto the growing list of variables that are simulated poorly by the IPCCs climate models. Over the past few months, weve illustrated and discussed that the climate models stored in the CMIP5 archive for the upcoming 5 th Assessment Report (AR5) cannot simulate observed:",5_1
"In the end the authors brand this unsolved mystery the ?Holocene temperature conundrum.? We have heard this song before, usually from climate modelers asking for more grant money to ?improve? their wonky programs. There may be some wiggle room in the interpretation of the proxy data but the new study, M13, is supposed to be the latest and most accurate temperature history available. This points directly back at the models as the weak link in the story. ?If the M13 reconstruction is correct, it will imply major biases across the current generation of climate models,? Liu et al conclude. This is more than just a conundrum for climate scientists?those computer models are the embodiment of climate science's understanding of how climate works here on planet Earth. If the models do not work, climate science has gotten it wrong.",5_1
"I invite anyone to defend this perspective, and we will present as a guest weblog post. From my perspective, if a global climate model cannot simulate current climate, as well as changes in the climate system, accurately it cannot produce accurate projections of climate in the coming decades.",5_1
"The authors write that ""how well the CMIP5 GCMs simulate climate at regional scales is of great interest to both researchers and resource managers,"" because, as they say in stating the obvious, ""a model that fails to reproduce aspects of the past climate will be less likely to produce a correct projection of future climate.""",5_1
"??And that strength of models is, if you still do not consider adequately the effect of clouds? They can not explain the polar climate? They can not predict the next hurricane season?",5_1
"The dynamical trends were similar in the observations and the model simu- lations, except that the dynamical effect was much larger in the observations than in both model experiments. In other words, the dynamical effects are clearly present in the state-of-the-art global climate models, but they are much too small to match the data.",5_1
"As for some other specifics, the two researchers determined that (1) ""long-term mean vertically integrated cloud fields have quite significant deficiencies in all the CMIP5 model simulations,"" that (2) ""both the CMIP5 and CMIP3 models display a clear bias in simulating too high LWP in mid-latitudes,"" that (3) ""this bias is not reduced in the CMIP5 models,"" that (4) there have been ""little to no changes in the skill of reproducing the observed LWP and CA ,"" that (5) ""inter-model differences are still large in the CMIP5 simulations,"" and that (6) ""there is very little to no improvement apparent in the tropical and subtropical regions in CMIP5.""",5_1
"While climate models are supposed to be snapshots of the Earths real climate, the mismatch between observed and modeled climate behavior shows that even the best models are not accurate and are likely overestimating outcomes. Gerald North, a Texas A&M atmospheric sciences and oceanography professor, estimates that climate models overestimate warming by roughly 50 percent.",5_1
(And what fundamental feedback in the tropical Pacific are climate models still unable to simulate correctly? Thats right: Bjerknes feedback. See Bellenger et al (2013) .),5_1
"Further, because climate models cant simulate where, when, why and how the ocean surfaces warm and cool around the globe, they cant properly simulate land surface temperatures or precipitation. And if they cant simulate land surface temperatures or precipitation, what value do they have? Quick answer: No value. Climate models are not yet fit for their intended purposes.",5_1
"Once again, these problems with regional impacts studies are just the tip of the iceberg. Climate modelers admit privately that global climate models are not capable of providing accurate predictions of regional climate.",5_1
"comprehensive comparison of characteristics of the planetary albedo () in data from two satellite measurement campaigns (ERBE and CERES) and output from 20 GCMs, simulating the 20th-century climate, is performed. Discrepancies between different data sets and models exist; thus, it is clear that conclusions about absolute magnitude and accuracy of albedo should be drawn with caution. Yet, given the present calibrations, a bias is found between different estimates of , with modelled global albedos being systematically higher than the observed. The difference between models and observations is larger for the more recent CERES measurements than the older ERBE measurements. Through the study of seasonal anomalies and space and time distribution of correaltions between models and observations, specific regions with large discrepancies can be identified. It is hereby found that models appear to over-estimate the albedo during boreal summer and under-estimate it during austral summer. Furthermore, the seasonal variations of albedo in subtropical areas dominated by low stratiform clouds, as well as in dry desert regions in the subtropics, seem to be poorly simulated by the models.",5_1
"This piece is typical of thousands of other news stories about calamities in the Amazon that are immediately blamed on global warming. Other headlines quickly found include Ocean Warming - Not El Nio - Drove Severe Amazon Drought in 2005 or Amazon Droughts Will Accelerate Global Warming or Amazon Could Shrink by 85% due to Climate Change, Scientists Say. Notice that climate change can cause droughts and floods in the Amazon PLUS droughts in the Amazon can cause global warming (by eliminating trees that could uptake atmospheric carbon dioxide). Throughout many of these stories, the words delicate and irreversible are used over and over.",5_2
"Many of these myths were created by proponents of manmade global warming who have no understanding of the coupled ocean-air processes that result in El Nio and La Nia events. Those persons look at an El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) index and wrongly assume the index represents all of the processes of ENSOwhen, in reality, the index simply shows the impact of El Nio and La Nia events on the variable being measured for that index. ENSO indices (like NINO3.4 region sea surface temperature anomalies presented in the post) do not capture in recharge aspects of La Nia events that are evident in the ocean heat content data for the tropical Pacific and they do not capture the impacts of the discharge and redistribution processes of major El Nio events that are plainly visible in the sea surface temperature anomalies of the Atlantic-Indian-West Pacific Oceans(90S-90N, 80W-180) .",5_2
"Well, Greenland is a regional phenomenon, the alarmists may claim. We have to look at the entire Northern hemisphere.",5_2
"Read here , here and here . The alarmist AGW hypothesis calls for an increase of atmospheric CO2 to increase atmospheric warming; that will then warm the surface causing increased water evaporation; that will then increase the amount of atmospheric water vapor (the largest greenhouse gas); that will then increase atmospheric warming; that will then warm the Earth's surface; and, etc., in a repeat-the-above scenario of a never-ending positive feedback loop finally leading to the mythical, catastrophic climate tipping points.",5_2
"The IPCC forecast declining winter snow cover and depth due to global warming, once again showing that they have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.",5_2
"Nearly every significant statement Gore makes regarding climate science and climate policy is either one sided, misleading, exaggerated, speculative, or just plain wrong. The present OnPoint summarizes my findings.",5_2
"Back in early March, we wrote about how this years cherry blossom peak was predicted to occur a bit later than in 2012March 26-30 instead of March 20-23. While recognizing that later peak blooms in a single year dont prove anything either way about global warming, we still raised the question of press reactionor rather the lack of it. Since the early peak dates in the last three years caused quite a bit of climate alarmism, the same should, theoretically, happen when the peak date is overdue.",5_2
"PHOENIX (Feb. 3, 2010) -- Climate scientist William Sprigg delivered a bold challenge to his fellow climate scientists in a blockbuster address to EUEC 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona on February 2.Sprigg, an adjunct research professor in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Arizona, led the technical review of the first global warming report issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1990.In his address to the Thirteenth Annual Energy and Environment Expo, Sprigg took on the ClimateGate scandal and called for ""serious reforms"" of the global scientific community. He warned of a growing perception that ""the IPCC is biased, conflicted, pushing political agendas.""Sprigg called for a new climate research agency supported not entirely by the government, but in conjunction with the private sector.""We need to stick to our scientific principles,"" Sprigg said, referring at least in part to the critical importance of sharing data with other scientists so that hypotheses and methodologies can be checked and double-checked. ""We need to improve our peer preview process, and expand the stakeholders' role to keep us all honest.""Sprigg's remarks were videotaped by Heartland Institute Research Fellow James G. Lakely, attending the conference not generally friendly to skeptics of predictions of catastrophic, man-made global warming.Heartland Senior Fellow James M. Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News, also attended the event, and during the Q&A; following Sprigg's presentation asked the scientist what he thinks the future holds for the IPCC.Sprigg nodded as Taylor referred to ""mounting scandals"" at the IPCC and then responded, ""There will be some reform. I think there's going to be big changes in the peer review process for the IPCC. There will be--there are--calls for the head of Pachauri. Some of my colleagues have written letters saying that he needs to be taken off the job ...""The video is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeEIl0-0EOA and also on the Web sites of Environment & Climate News, The Heartland Institute, and Global Warming Facts.",5_2
"There is global climate science and then there is the Global Warming Movement. The movement hijacked the science a long time ago, and it has had its share of setbacks lately. Its leaders have tried to stiff-arm their way past errors, lies, fraud, pointless tax increase proposals and some really peculiar posing in Copenhagen.",5_2
"Johnston cross examines and juxtaposes conclusions from numerous scientists to reveal ""a rhetoric of persuasion, of advocacy that prevails throughout establishment climate science""(9). Complexities and uncertainties that might shake the confidence of policymakers are often concealed. For example, there is no mention of water vapor feedbacks in the IPCC AR4 ""Climate Science"" documents intended to influence the public and the media the Policymaker Summary and Technical Summary (24).",5_2
"Once the UNFCCC treaty was a done deal, the IPCC and its scientific conclusions were set on a track to become a self fulfilling prophecy. The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human-induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for developing the political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets. National and international science programs were funded to support the IPCC objectives.",5_2
"How often do we see this happena press release about a scientific study states or suggests that global warming was the cause of a factor being studied, when the paper itself doesnt come to that conclusionand/or the data contradict it?",5_2
"I first became interested in the topic of Global Warming, as it was known then, almost 6 years ago. The trigger for me was watching Al Gores Inconvenient Truth, and realising that the film was a very powerful narrative which lacked proper balance and was all about advocacy, with references to underlying theory frustratingly vague and infrequent. The cherry-picker scene was kinda sciencey, yet somehow even that aroused questions rather than convincing me. I had no means to evaluate the science aspects back then, so resolved to look into them (wow, armed only with a long-ago physics degree did that take years longer than I thought!) But in fact my chief interest was not the climate science.",5_2
"In the case of the IPCC, they published a flat-out fear-mongering sensitivity that in computer simulations would produce a temperature increase of +6.4 C (pink line) by 2100AD, if CO2 emissions were not stabilized. This incredibly high computer output was designed to scare policymakers and the mainstream media into action.",5_2
"Now they call it change for the IPCC and the warmer fanatics so they can cover all forms of panic about the weather, but we all know its about carbon dioxide as a scary air pollutant that will kill us all.",5_2
"I should make it clear that Im not doubting that CO2 has a positive radiative heating effect in our atmosphere, due to LWIR re-radiation, that is well established by science. What I am saying is that Mr. Gores Climate Reality Project did a poor job of demonstrating an experiment, so poor in fact that they had to fabricate portions of the presentation, and that the experiment itself (if they actually did it, we cant tell) would show a completely different physical mechanism than what actually occurs in our atmosphere.",5_2
This is a point that is very hard to explain to climate zealots lets call them climate hawks who are reluctant to admit criticism to the debate. Murry sets out his case,5_2
"In recent years, environmentalism seems to have taken a prominent place on the political scene. Many who champion this new ""ism"" sadly allege that Man is destructive, unnatural, and guilty of destroying the entire planet. The ""proofs"" used in this respect are based on selected portions of science which, in many cases, are not based on the objectivity of the scientific method of natural sciences (Sanford, 1992).",5_2
CO2-hysteric Pachauri now has a blog--with a comment section,5_2
"Whatever the reason, it is indeed vastly more difficult to publish results in climate research journals if they run against the tide of politically correct opinion. Which is why most of the sceptic literature on the subject has been forced onto the web, and particularly onto web-logs devoted to the sceptic view of things. Which, in turn, is why the more fanatical of the believers in anthropogenic global warming insist that only peer-reviewed literature should be accepted as an indication of the real state of affairs. They argue that the sceptic web-logs should never be taken seriously by real scientists, and certainly should never be quoted. Which is a great pity. Some of the sceptics are extremely productive as far as critical analysis of climate science is concerned. Names like Judith Curry (chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta), Steve McIntyre (a Canadian geologist-statistician) and blogger Willis Eschenbach come to mind. These three in particular provide a balance and maturity in public discussion that puts many players in the global warming movement to shame, and as a consequence their outreach to the scientifically inclined general public is highly effective. Their output, together with that of other sceptics on the web, is fast becoming a practical and stringent substitute for peer review.",5_2
"Because global warming advocates are much more comfortable arguing #1 than #2, they like to paint skeptics as all denying #1. This makes for a great straw man that is easy to beat, and is aided by the fact that there is a true minority who doesn't believe #1 (and who, despite everything that is written, have every right to continue to express that opinion without fear of reprisal). Actually, even better, they like to avoid defending their position at all and just argue that all skeptics are funded by Exxon.",5_2
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IT used to be common for global warming activists to claim that anyone who disagrees with them must be in the pay of big oil remember Al Gore said this in his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. More recently the accusation has been that anyone who disagrees with them doesnt understand the science and therefore does not have an informed opinion.,5_2
"My diagram above was published on the 8 th February, and counted 29 stations. Paul Homewoods original article on the Arctic of 4 th February lists 19 adjusted sites. If RealClimate had actually read the cited article, they would have known that quotation was false in connection to the Arctic. Any undergraduate who made this mistake in an essay would be failed.",5_2
"The official propaganda mantra at the conference, first suggested by a UK pressure-group last year and now enthusiastically adopted by the UN, was that The Science Is Settled. The zombies, led by the outgoing and incoming conference chairmen, recited this mantra with glazed but increasingly desperate pietism.",5_2
"We can learn from experts like Dr. Griffin how to approach those paradigmatics and wishful thinkers who cling to the GHE. Griffin and his ilk advise we pose mostly open-ended questions and encourage others to face that up to the enduring truth that reality will never precisely be what we think it is; none of us are above false beliefs. Plus, our pride is a basic human flaw that obstructs such open inquiry.",5_2
"The prescriptions put forward by the degrowth crowd, says Bryce, are familiar. Nuclear energy is bad. Genetically modified foods are bad. Coal isnt just bad, its awful. Oil is bad. Natural gasand the process often used to produce it, hydraulic fracturing is bad. And it is no surprise that the Environmental Protection Agencythe most anti-growth governmental agencyhas just announced steps to require the disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a technology that has been in use for more than a half century and one that has unlocked access to vast reserves of natural gas and oil.",5_2
"Alarmists evaluate the health of Arctic ice, bythe minimum extent of the year. They go ballistic if you try to use any other measure. They demand that you dont average over the entire year.",5_2
"Global warming hysteria and the concept of the carbon footprint, in particular, have been debunked many times in this column already. Suffice to say, the ClimateCounts survey commands no credibility here, and consumers who shop based on the survey's recommendations may as well consult with an astrologist to guide their purchasing decisions.",5_2
"As Dr. David Wojick noted in his analysis, The UN IPCC's Artful Bias, ""It is as one sided as a legal brief, which it resembles."" In our last issue of Cooler Heads we quoted Swedish sea-level expert Nils-Axel Moerner, a professor at Stockholm University and president of the INQUA (International Union of Quaternary Research) Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, who said of the report, ""It is absolutely remarkable how inferior and one-sided this report is."" That is the product of advocacy, not science.",5_2
"Gillard used the terms denier or denial 11 times , pointed words because they carry the connotation of Holocaust denial. The last time that tactic was used in the national debate, after the release of the Bringing Them Home report, it exploded on those who used it.",5_2
"So Gore and company present an interesting new environmental ethic. It's okay, as long as you're ""environmentally correct,"" to burn up tons of fuel jetting off to concerts around the world. But it's a sin to even present the exploration for this oil in a positive light. Talk about an ""offset"" in priorities.",5_2
"In the introduction of his most recent book, Lawson discusses the peculiar atmosphere of our time, of a time of threat to reason, if not of a time of unreason, when he tells us that, despite the fact that his previous three books didn?t have the slightest problem in finding a publisher (they even had one before they were written), this book was rejected by every British publisher it was offered to. The issue was finally resolved by Peter Mayer, the owner of The Overlook Press in New York who also owns Duckworth Publishers in London, who had the courage to publish the book. Lawson makes an additional important remark (p. 105) when he says that the situation was so bad that ? I quote ? ?I was able to write this book only because my own career is behind me.? (By the way, also the quite youthful and ?fresh? professor Kut lek is already 81 years old.) In the currently prevailing atmosphere, Nigel Lawson sees in the global warming hysteria ?the most oppressive and intolerant form of political correctness in the western world today.?",5_2
"This weekend, rock stars will jet around the world, cars and buses will clog traffic, and elaborate sound stages will be set up to burn massive amounts of fuel to send the message to fans at home that they better conserve their energy or face the allegedly dire threat of global warming.",5_2
Pissed old hacks have to compete to find the news and interpret it in order to fit with their conflicting world views (or those of their proprietors). Sober environmental journalists all digest the same press handouts. The ony competition is to find new synonyms for catastrophic.,5_2
"A week ago, it emerged that the Oscar-winning film director had put his money where his mouth is by donating $1m of his personal fortune to opponents of Proposition 23, a ballot measure facing voters in California at the coming mid-term elections which would suspend the state's landmark law combating climate change. Supporters of the proposition weren't going to take that lying down, though. On Thursday, they returned fire by releasing a short film that claims to highlight a Titanic-sized gulf between Mr Cameron's somewhat magisterial proclamations regarding the importance of combating climate change, and his actual lifestyle.",5_2
"Belief systems are embraced with no logical basis. For example, environmentalists almost universally believe in the dangers of global warming but also reject the best solution to the problem, which is nuclear power. These two beliefs co-exist based on faith, not reason.",5_2
"Many of these evangelists attempt, not to explain the science, but to scare the population into believing, through dire warnings that we face some kind climatic Judgement Day. Indeed if they are to be believed then we are already seeing signs of judgement because of the sin of burning fossil fuels.",5_2
"Yeah. Right. How about Warming Arctic Climate Melting Glaciers Faster, Raising Ocean Level, Scientist Says . Its vintage NYT from 1947. And Glaciers give hints of weather change . Its NYT again, 1955 (article reports of five decades of retreating glaciers, no less). And heres the link to a 1978 NYT article blaming melting glaciers for beach-side troubles in Rhode Island. Looks like there havent been many decades without a Fear the Glaciers! article on the New York Alarmist Times. And all we get is a its different this time around. Not serious, indeed",5_2
"In its August 13 issue, the New York Times has continued its tradition of peddling bogus global warming scare stories during the late summer silly season. This time the threat isn't anything dramatic like the North Pole melting. ""Heat waves come on subtly, raising summer temperatures just a little higher than normal and then receding,"" opined the Times. ""But they kill more people in the United States than all other natural disasters combined.""",5_2
"With these words last December 14 , the New Zealand Herald editorial writer signalled his slant. Its a bias towards the official line on global warming. The Herald joins the chorus of activists baying for Western compensation for the third world to answer the allegations of injury by climate.",5_2
"Even the Wall Street Journal breathlessly reported Polar Ice Melt Is Accelerating: Shrinking in Greenland, Antarctica Has Sent Ocean Levels Higher, Study Says. This aint just your typical run-of-the-mill, left of almost everywhere, New York Times or Washington Post global warming alarmist stuff. So it must be true right?",5_2
"Shame on the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Daily Herald for not even including a short blurb in their newspapers about Heartland's outstanding Fourth International Conference on Climate Change with its distinguished world-wide list of speakers. Sadly the media has taken the politically approved stance that global warming is man-made. As such the media is not about to inform its readers of the thousands of leading scientists around the world who reject global warming. Is it any wonder that newspapers are losing subscribers, when they only tell one side of the story? Kudos to Pajama Media for filming the entire conference!",5_2
"The NY Times text the overall measure of cyclone activity, whether through more intense storms or more frequent storms, had doubled with a one-quarter-degree increase in average global temperature is even more scientifically flawed. Hurricanes respond to the SST conditions in their vicinity, not to a global average metric!",5_2
"So unusual is this attempt actually to meet us in argument, and so venomously ad hominem are Abrahams artful puerilities, delivered in a nasal and irritatingly matey tone (at least we are spared his face he looks like an overcooked prawn) , that climate-extremist bloggers everywhere have circulated them and praised them to the warming skies.",5_2
The Fourth Report (2007) took special precautions to ensure that no true statement about the climate like this one could ever appear again. Chapter 1 was now entitled Historical Overview of Climate Change Science which dealt exclusively with the FCCC definition of Climate Science. It omitted all mention of conventional meteorology and concealed all the many measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide carried out between 1850 and 1975.,5_2
White House turns up heat on climate alarm,5_2
"Annan also said: Since IPCC can no longer defend their old analyses in any meaningful manner, it seems they have to resort to an unsupported this is what we think, because we asked our pals having firmly wedded themselves to their politically convenient long tail of high values, their response to new evidence is little more than sticking their fingers in their ears and singing la la la I cant hear you.",5_2
"Based on the IPCCs simulations of 21 st century climate, it seems that rainfall will increase overall in the region (including wintertime snowfall in Tibet), and the IPCC AR4 WGII does not discuss the impact of temperature and evapotranspiration on fresh water resources in this region. The importance of these omissions, inconsistencies or mistakes by the IPCC is amplified by the potential of riparian warfare in this region that supports half of the worlds population.",5_2
"The IPCC, you will recall, is Al Gores co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. And the host over the years of numerous scandals involving fudged and twisted data, cut-and-pastes from student theses, popular magazine articles and green-group press releases and of course the infamous hide the decline in temperatures. This is not just one more scandal, however.",5_2
"I didnt feel very inspired today until I ran across an article on the violence of earths history. I want to write about that now. For those who read my blog regularly, you know that I feel it is clear that the world governments are the primary drivers behind the global warming rhetoric and science. Some day I will post on how the governments are using the scientists but that is a different subject.",5_2
"The IPCC peer review process is not like the one academic journals use, in which reviewers actually have the authority to recommend rejection and require changes; instead it is more like a limited, voluntary public comment process. Since the IPCC gives Lead Authors the sole right to determine content and accept or dismiss comments, it is more like a weblog than an academic report.",5_2
"Who pays? Oh, you guessed it before I told you. The West pays. The third world (UN code: non-Annex-I parties) thinks it will collect, so it will always vote for the UNs insane proposals. But the UNs bureaucrats will actually get all or nearly all the money, and will decide how to allocate what minuscule fraction they have not already spent on themselves. As a senior UN diplomat told me last year, The UN exists for only one purpose: to get more money. That, and that alone, is the reason why it takes such an interest in climate change. The draft says: Developed-country Parties shall provide developing-country Parties with new and additional finance, inter alia through a percentage of the gross domestic product of developed-country Parties. And, of course, The extent of participation by non-Annex-I parties in the global effort to deal with climate change is directly dependent on the level of support provided by developed-country Parties.",5_2
"The fallacious alarmism surrounding the Emperor Penguins imminent extinction can be found in one of Mieslers link to the Center of Biological Diversity. The CBD is the environmental legal outfit that sued the USA to list the polar bear and Emperor as endangered species due CO2 warming. The CBD wrote, The Emperor colony at Terre Adelie in East Antarctica featured in the Academy Award-winning French documentary, March of the Penguins plummeted by more than 50% in the late 1970s during a warm period with little sea ice cover, when adults died en masse. Because the sea ice continues to disintegrate, and the prolonged blizzards cause ongoing chick mortality, the colony has yet to recover.?? And When sea ice breaks up before their chicks have matured and grown their waterproof feathers, chicks that are swept into the ocean are likely to die .",5_2
"The letter goes on to preach the tired environmental-activist mantra listing the results of mans sinful actions like hottest year on record (for less than two-percent of the Earth), wildfires, droughts, and public health outbreaks (all unfortunate but not too atypical).",5_2
"Agreed environmentalism has been around for centuries and one of the major proponents last century was Adolf Hitler. The hijacking of environmentalism by the left wing has caused me to write posts on many different websites, and I think that the dreadlocked Earth mother/Gaia hippies have set back legitimate concerns for the environment by decades.",5_2
"Here . Evidently ""Coal Kills Climate"". This must be true, because it says so right on the huge banner the protesters brought with them. You might recall that both Al Gore and James Hansen have endorsed this type of civil disobedience against coal-fired power plants. You may also recall this : Gore's home may get some power from solar panels and may use enviro-friendly compact flourescent bulbs but the bulk of the home's power comes from Nashville Electric Service, which gets its power from the Tennessee Valley Authority, which produces most of its power from coal-burning power plants .",5_2
"Utley recently wrote an informative post about the extent to which unfounded alarmism permeates U.S. nuclear policy. In it, he elaborates on the costs of this misplaced fear. He also identifies environmentalist special interests as a key conduit through which is disseminated misinformation about the dangers of radiation. Of course, it will come as no shock to readers of this blog that green groups manufacture alarm as a means of expanding their own influence (See: Warming, Global). Read Utleys entire, excellent post here .",5_2
"I mostly find Earth Day just plain annoying for the rank hypocrisy on display. A state-sponsored religious day of worship, along with all of the 1st Amendment-violating regulations to codify it.",5_2
"For over 20 years, the IPCC has been noisily agitating about an unprecedented rate of global warming at ground level where we all live They told us that a predicted rise in surface temperatures of 3-6C by 2100 had the potential to harm mankind in a myriad of ways. These warnings certainly attracted our attention. They were the bait.",5_2
"Though scientists might indeed say this, not so long ago the same scientists gave scientific reasons for an intimate connection between the poles global warming was going to warm those regions the most, because of their lack of water vapour. They change their tune now that observations show different behaviour (though they dont know why), but for years they were telling us the poles were doomed. Not that Massom mentions it.",5_2
"German science used to be, and is in many areas,still highly regarded worldwide. But in the area of climate science, it has been reduced to politics and masterplanning .",5_2
"It is not that simple to tell who is and who is not a climatologist or an expert on climate change and global warming. Ross McKitrick once said that ?there is no such thing as an ?expert? on global warming, because no one can master all the relevant subjects. On the subject of climate change everyone is an amateur on many if not most of the relevant topics.? (as quoted by R. M. Carter, ?The Futile Quest for Climate Control,? Quadrant, November, 2008, p. 10; online atwww.quadrant.org.au/magazine/issue/2008/451/the-futile-quest-for-climate-control). In his recently published book Climate: The Counter Consensus (2010), Prof. Carter suggests that ?scientists who study climate change come from a wide range of disciplines? which he ?groups into three main categories? (p. 22). He claims that ?most of the scientific alarm about dangerous climate change is generated by scientists in themeteorological and computer modeling group, whereas many (though not all)geological scientists see no cause for alarm when modern climate change is compared with the climate history? (p. 23). This structuring seems to be useful.",5_2
"Many climate experts are scientifically illiterate, and get confused by this graph showing the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and global temperature",5_2
"So then we come to climate science. In normal science, the literally trillions of dollars are NOT on the line. In normal science, theories are provable, money is minimal, and fame comes when you do something truly unique. In climate science, proof of correctness is probably 20 years out as a minimum. There is massive and immediate money on the line, and perks for concluding unprecedented global warming include, huge fame, easier publication, financial rewards, and control over government policy. Therefore, it should be no surprise that the politics of the situation have thoroughly corrupted the science of climate.",5_2
"We see below how many of the UWA hosts benefit from climate change grants, and thus would potentially gain from promoting a baseless smear against critics who threaten their funding or status. These hypocrites are happy to promote the untruth that skeptics are funded to speak, when the they themselves are the ones who benefit financially from a dubious scare campaign. The professors-at-large program is supposed to foster public debate, but four of the ten Oreskes hosts signed a letter seeking to silence a skeptic from speaking at another university.",5_2
"In 1988,Hansenforecast that parts of Manhattan would be underwater by now, and that crime would greatly increase due to global warming.",5_2
"Climate models have been used by the political entity called the IPCC for almost 2 decades to support a political agenda known as the UNFCCC. In those 2 decades, apparently the climate science community hasnt bothered to check to see whether it matters that the spread in absolute modeled global mean temperature is three times greater than the warming thats taken place since pre-industrial times.",5_2
"""Until climate science is funded independent of desired energy policy outcomes, we can continue to expect climate research results to be heavily biased in the direction of catastrophic outcomes,"" Spencer wrote.",5_2
"This is one of many points that I had wanted to draw to the attention of the UN's climate panel last year when the technical support unit met in Hawaii (these bureaucrats love their fancy hotels in exotic locations, paid for at your expense and mine) to conduct what was called the ""scoping"" meeting for the fifth quinquennial climate assessment report of the climate panel, due to be published in 2013. I was invited, and duly registered on line, but the moment the narrow and poisonous faction that controls the scientific input to the panel realized I was coming a very senior scientist prominent as the first named lead author of one of the previous UN climate assessments wrote to me making it very plain, in effect, that anyone who dared to raise difficult questions would not be welcome, and he refused to allow me to attend.",5_2
"As noted, the defects in the IPCC process, and the official expert advisory process more broadly, have gone unacknowledged and unremedied by what I call the environmental policy milieu, and the critics have been largely disregarded. This high-level official failure, as also the defects themselves, are easily accounted for: both have resulted from chronic and pervasive bias.",5_2
"I would have advised the moderator, Jeffrey Mervis, to focus on somewhat different topics, ones that might have made the scientists a bit less comfortable: the blatant corruption of the peer-review process, particularly in climate science; the reality that much of what is published in very prominent peer-reviewed journals simply cannot be replicated; how journal editors mere mortals with biases of their own can be constrained from favoring some findings over others in the publication process; the efforts of some politicians Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is a prominent example to criminalize dissent from climate orthodoxy through the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act statutes.",5_2
"Frankly, the whole process, not just the discredited Dr Pachauri (in shut-eyed denial at a press conference yesterday), needs purging or it will drag down the reputation of science with it. One of the most shocking things for those who champion science, as I do, has been the sight of the science Establishment reacting to each scandal in climate science with indifference or contempt. The contrast with the thorough investigation of the Hauser affair is striking.",5_2
"when we sent our comments to the IPCC AR4, they were mostly rejected.",5_2
"Among the scientific disciplines, the concentrated climate panic is confined to the specialized interdisciplinary clique of self-described ""climate scientists"", a scholarly discipline that was pretty much created and greatly inflated with the very purpose of spreading the climate hysteria and to make it look ""connected to science"".",5_2
"The most recent example of the failure of editorial and peer review occurred in a September 2007 article in a U.S. journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The authors claimed to show that pollen from GM corn was injurious to certain insects in a laboratory mock-up of an aquatic ecosystem, but their conclusions are dubious, and their methodology sloppy and inadequately described. More important, the researchers reported elsewhere that they had failed to find these same effects in studies in the field, details they neglected to reveal in the PNAS article. This is a critical omission because laboratory studies are designed to mimic what happens in the real world. In other words, even if the laboratory studies had been performed correctly and carefully, positive results arguably would have been irrelevant because they do not sufficiently mimic what happens in the field.",5_2
"As the extremists lose the argument and become more desperate, that is changing. John Abraham, a lecturer in fluid mechanics at a bible-college in Minnesota has recently issued and widely disseminated a hilariously mendacious 83-minute attempted rebuttal of a speech by me about the climate last October in St. Paul, Minnesota.",5_2
"Does this sneering sentiment represent a strident admission by Oreskes ??? and by extension, her comrades in the real ???denial?? camp ??? that she has no fear of ??? nay, embraces socialism? Is she saying, along with Newsweek Magazine, ???We are all socialists now!??? Does she believe (and hold in disdain the fact) that the American Founders also gained ??? after one of the most thorough, brilliant, and inspired studies in comparative governments and their flaws in ???the course of human events?? ??? a ???paranoid ideological fear?? of the Leviathan State?",5_2
Lake Level Rise Much Faster Than IPCC Predicted,5_2
"The reason that these professional organizations claim there is a consensus is that the very limited individuals who make these policy statementsdo not permit their membership to vote, or to present alternative viewpoints. The Senators to whom this letter were addressed should reach out for a broader range of inputs with respect to the role of humans in the climate system.",5_2
"Some excellent coverage of the climate change angle to the Queensland floods from Andrew Bolt , including some shameful attempts to exploit the situation by arch-warmist David Karoly. There is a strongly worded rebuttal from another academic, Prof Stewart Franks.",5_2
"P.S. I??ve read the book. Responding to all its disinformation is like getting a root canal without anaesthetic. I??m glad that Brandon Shollenberger has considered some of the points, but, even with the considerable effort that he??s made, he??s only scratched the surface of the disinformation. It amazes me that the climate ???community??, which one presumes as having some residual scientific standards, not only takes no offence at Mann??s disinformation, but even embraces it.",5_2
"Gleicks integrity seems to have nothing to do with scientific integrity, but rather loyalty to and consistency with what I have called the UNFCCC/IPCC ideology .",5_2
"Although it may sound a bit like sour grapes, heres the way that Ive rationalized Natures editorial decision. Ive become convinced that many of the editors of the high impact journals are inclined to cast opinion pieces as salvos in the ongoing war between climate change believers and skeptics. Articles like mine that take issue with the way in which the war is being waged are not particularly welcome. By soliciting opinion pieces and by selecting, from among the growing list of contributed articles, the very few that will be sent out for peer review, the editors promote their vision of what constitutes groundbreaking and policy relevant science. What if it is not the right vision?",5_2
"How would a more politically diverse scientific community improve this situation? First, it could foster greater confidence among Republican politicians about the legitimacy of mainstream science. Second, it would cultivate more informed, creative, and challenging debates about the policy implications of scientific knowledge. This could help keep difficult problems like climate change from getting prematurely straitjacketed by ideology. A more politically diverse scientific community would, overall, support a healthier relationship between science and politics. It should come as no surprise that the increasing politicization of science has come to make science more political rather than politics more scientific. At the same time, the more partisan and/or and ideological that you are, the more welcome and comfortable that you will find the politicization of science, as it reenforces your preconceptions.",5_2
"But I am hoping this essay will promote some self reflection among climate scientists regarding their own ethical conflicts and values. Unfortunately, I suspect this essay will also trigger a backlash from the consensus police (absence of such a backlash would help disprove my thesis ha ha), but I am pretty much immune to all that at this point.",5_2
"Further ?vindication? of the Climategate emailers was to follow, of course, in Muir Russell?s equally probing investigation. To be fair, Russell manages to issue a criticism or two. He says the scientists were sometimes ?misleading??but without meaning to be (a plea which, in the case of the ?trick to hide the decline?, is an insult to one?s intelligence). On the apparent conspiracy to subvert peer review, it found that the ?allegations cannot be upheld??but, as the impressively even-handed Fred Pearce of the Guardian notes, this was partly on the grounds that ?the roles of CRU scientists and others could not be distinguished from those of colleagues. There was ?team responsibility?.? Edward Acton, vice-chancellor of the university which houses CRU, calls this ?exoneration?.",5_2
"The government, backed by their butt buddies at the IPCC are not going to warn us, they are not going to admit that global warming was flawed science at best and an out and out con at the worst.",5_2
In early June the Daily Caller reported that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have found a solution to the 15-year pause in global warming: They adjusted the hiatus in warming out of the temperature record. This is what Heartland and others have been fighting against and exposing since the global warming hoax began in the late 1980s. And we are beginning to see the Congress respond.,5_2
Warm Bias: How The Met Office Mislead The British Public,5_2
The Clean Development Mechanism delivers the greatest green scam of all,5_2
"This represents politically assisting the IPCC to enable UN, EU, and US bureaucrats and political appointees to avoid official email channels for specific official work of high public interest, performed on official time and using government computers, away from the prying eyes of increasingly skeptical taxpayers.",5_2
"They keep lowering the temperature increases they expect, from 0.30C per decade in 1990, to 0.20C per decade in 2001, and now 0.15C per decade yet they have the gall to tell us its worse than expected. These people are not scientists. They over-estimate the temperature increases due to carbon dioxide, selectively deny evidence, and now they cheat and lie to conceal the truth.",5_2
"Let's sum up: we now have ironclad proof that a) there is no data proving global warming even exists, b) the IPCC scientists knew that the data didn't support their views and created dummy results to get the answer they wanted, and c) thy used their undeserved respect in the scientific community to suppress any research which contradicted them, regardless of its scientific merit.",5_2
"Lets look at the next station over at Elmira, N.Y. Guess what, exactly the same data tampering they knocked three degrees off the past temperatures and made the cooling trend disappear. The early part of the 20th century was cooled five degrees. What possible error could require five degrees of data tampering?",5_2
"In lockstep with temperature, IPCC scientists needed to show a monotonic increase in CO2 such that the correlation with temperature was apparent at least since 1950/1960.So CO2 records have also been manipulated. One manipulation was the arbitrary changing of the age of the gas trapped in the upper part of an ice core, where the pressure changes were less drastic than in the deeper parts. In the upper part of the core, taken from Siple, Antarctica, the ice was deposited in the year 1890, and the CO2 concentrationin it was 328 ppmv (Friedli et al. 1986, Neftel et al.1985), and not the 290 ppmv needed to prove the man-madewarming hypothesis. The same CO2 concentration of 328ppmv was measured in the air collected directly from the atmosphere at the Mauna Loa volcano, Hawaii, 83 years laterin 1973 (Boden et al. 1990). So, it was shockingly clear thatthe pre-industrial level of CO2 was the same as in the second half of the 20th Century.To solve this problem, these researchers simply made an ad hoc assumption: The age of the gas recovered from 1 to 10 grams of ice was arbitrarily decreed to be exactly 83 years younger than the ice in which it was trapped! This was notsupported by any experimental evidence, but only by assumptions which were in conflict with the facts (Jaworowski 1994a,Jaworowski et al. 1992b). The corrected proxy ice data were then smoothly aligned with the direct atmospheric measurements",5_2
"The main impression that I get from the emails is that the various scientists think that I and other requesters are simply doing this to harass them. Nothing could be further from the truth. I respect actual scientists, I??m short of time myself so I understand time pressures, so I have no desire to put any scientist to any extra effort beyond providing what science requires a full accounting of the data, the methods, and in some cases the computer code used to do the research. Anything more is harassment but anything less is scientific obstruction. And if they would provide those things when they publish their results, they??d never hear from me. And if Nature Magazine and Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation and all of the journals and funders would just enforce their own existing rules on archiving and transparency, the problem would be solved. But noooo, for the select friends of Phil these bothersome transparency regulations are ignored and overlooked.",5_2
"But Gavin did a trick. He cooled the baseline temperatures, so that half of the tampering is cooling before 1970, and half is warming after 1970.",5_2
"There is no scientific basis for any of it. None whatsoever. The whole thing has been made up by a tiny handful of malevolent, radicalized scientists highly placed in various Western meteorological organizations. If you want to know who they are, read online the Climategate emails that they exchanged with one another over the past ten years. You will be struck as I was by just how nasty these fraudsters are.",5_2
Why do climate scientists bother to gather data when the go-to methodology is to manipulate it to prop up the global warming agenda?,5_2
"In CRU??s evidence to Muir Russell, Briffa, with his characteristic inconsistency, contradicted his earlier statement that they had not ???considered?? the possibility of additional data. Not only did he contradict this earlier statement, he stated that the original intention and objective of the Briffa et al 2008 article was to produce an integrated Polar Urals/Yamal series (along the lines that Climate Audit had wondered about), and that this objective was not pursued only because it was felt that this work could not be completed in time:",5_2
"Currently public emails show Mann was unable to provide even his close colleagues data he used in some of his papers and could not remember which data sets he used. A query to UVA shows the university, who owns the data and notebooks resulting from sponsored research, had no copy of Manns logbooks and never gave him permission to take them with him when he left UVA. The university refused to inquire within Manns department as to whether anyone there knew whether he even kept a research logbook, so its impossible for me to know whether he stole the logbook or just never prepared one in the first place.",5_2
"According to recently disclosed e-mails from a National Academies of Science listserv, prominent climate scientists affiliated with the U.S. National Academies of Science have been planning a public campaign to paper over the damaged reputation of global warming alarmism. Their scheme would involve officials at the National Academies and other professional associations producing studies to endorse the researchers pre-existing assumptions and create confusion about the revelations of the rapidly expanding Climategate scandal.",5_2
"Mann, Wahl, Ammann, Ritson, Ramsdorff are all dining out on the fact that von Storch et al 2004 did not implement a detrending step in their implementation of MBH98. (Although given that Mann would not be ""intimidated"" into releasing his algorithm and cited Zorita et al 2003 to us as evidence that people could implement his algorithm, they should be embarrassed that people still could misinterpret their methodology. )",5_2
Warmists were on a treadmill defending the hypothesis. Over 6000 leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) delineate the challenges and political rather than scientific responses. It required three major activities. A steady flow of material that appeared to provide proof; rejection of evidence that contradicted the hypothesis; and efforts to silence critics and control research and publications.,5_2
"The investigation into the alleged global warming data fraud by Virginia's Attorney General may soon have a whole new angle. This comes from a previously overlooked connection between discredited tree-ring proxy researcher, Michael Mann and Yale's now deceased climate professor, Barry Saltzman.",5_2
"Andrew Bolt, an inconvenient Aussie, details some of the more egregious emails and finds so-called leading scientific minds colluding to ruin the careers of those that disagree:",5_2
"My view was that it was a conspiracy right from the start to bamboozle the world on the lie of anthropogenic global warming sandbagging much of the mainstream media, the markets and the educational system to not believe their own eyes and ears.",5_2
"Maddow also looks at the Climategate inquiries, quoting Russell's conclusions that the CRU scientists are beyond reproach, but strangely not mentioning the fact his contradictory finding that hiding the decline was ""misleading"".",5_2
"Im glad its getting old Gavin, very very happy in fact. Yet there is a simple truth, Gavin (who is a scientist) doesnt know which data was used anymore than we do. BECAUSE CRU WONT RELEASE IT! Why doesnt he want to know? His colleagues at CRU (Climategate central headquarters) have recently been shown hiding data from reconstructions, blocking skeptical papers which demonstrate the problems in paleo math, and removing points from temperature curves to hide downtrends. We know that only a single very high warming station is being used in GHCN for the Antarctic. We know that Switzerland and Austrailia have some very unusual warming trends. We know his colleagues blocked in two cases, papers critical of the Siberian data. Even assuming that they didnt succumb to the pressures of fraudulent selection in Russia, how is Gavin so sure his colleagues havent made an honest error.",5_2
"My cue for those pieces was the evidence multiplying from across the world that something very odd has been going on with those official surface temperature records, all of which ultimately rely on data compiled by NOAAs GHCN. Careful analysts have come up with hundreds of examples of how the original data recorded by 3,000-odd weather stations has been adjusted, to exaggerate the degree to which the Earth has actually been warming. Figures from earlier decades have repeatedly been adjusted downwards and more recent data adjusted upwards, to show the Earth having warmed much more dramatically than the original data justified.",5_2
"Guest essay by Professor Philip Lloyd People have the nasty habit of giving their opponents names. Those who are convinced that humans are wrecking the world by burning fossil fuels call those who dont believe them denialists. It implies that they are close to the Holocaust deniers, and so are clearly beyond the pale. I have come to the conclusion that they are wrong. The true denialists are those who believe in global warming, and who will go to any lengths to deny the evidence against that position. For instance, the final draft of the Fifth Assessment Report of IPCCs Working Group 1 concerns itself with observations of the climate and how it might change in future. Within minutes of it being released, skeptics had noted that a key figure, which compared predicted temperatures to measurements, had been drastically altered after the second draft had been approved.",5_2
"Science is vitally important for the operation of highly technological society, and that science must be open, transparent, and must adhere to the scientific method. The institution of science has no place in it for hiding data, hiding data-processing, shaping data to conform to pre-existing beliefs, undermining the peer-review process, cherry-picking reports in order to slant political IPCC reports, or slandering critics by comparing them with flat-earthers, moon-landing conspiracy theorists, or holocaust deniers. Let the Climategate hearings begin.",5_2
"""Many would place the beginning of the global warming hoax on the Senate testimony delivered by James Hansen of NASA during the summer of 1988. More than anything else, this exhibition of hyped alarm triggered my active skepticism about the man-made global warming scare. This skepticism was amplified when I acted as reviewer of the first three IPCC reports, in 1990, 1996, and 2001. Increasingly claims were made for which there was no evidence; in some cases the ""evidence' was clearly manufactured. For example, the 1966 report used selective data and doctored graphs. It also featured changes in the text that were made after the scientists had approved it and before it was printed.""",5_2
"It will likely be open season on Mann. Anyone may now freely dismiss him in the harshest terms as a junk scientist who shilled for a failed global warming cabal. Without fear of his civil legal redress, we may now refer to Mann for what he is: a climate criminal, a fraudster.",5_2
"Climate fraudsters now claim that there never was a Medieval Warm Period, because they are paid to lie about the climate in support of the White House politicalagenda.",5_2
"Climate skeptics are having a field day, celebrating the firestorm of controversy surrounding the UK's Hadley Center Climate Research Unit (CRU), until recently, the world's leading climate research center. One skeptic, a Canadian named Steve McIntyre has particular cause for doing a happy dance over the misery of the CRU.",5_2
"I predicted a few days ago that NCDC data tampering would wipe out New Yorks coldest year, and make it only second coldest. My prediction was spot on. They massively cooled the past to wreck this years record.",5_2
"The climate change industry, along with people like Al Gore have slammed skeptics for not publishing in the peer reviewed literature. What the Climategate documents reveal is that this small group of scientists, who often peer-review each other's work as well as skeptical articles, have discussed ways of keeping findings they don't like out of the peer-reviewed literature as well as the IPCC reports, even if it required trying to oust editors, boycotting certain journals, or to reclassifying a prestigious journal that publishes skeptical articles as a fringe journal unworthy of consideration. They also discuss their specific intention to exclude contrary findings from the IPCC reports, even if they ""have to redefine what the peer-reviewed literature is!""",5_2
"Grafting instrumental data onto proxy data to produce a seemingly continuous record is trickery, because instrumental data, unlike proxy data, are massively influenced by land-use changes and site-specific quality control issues.",5_2
"Bloggers and skeptics immediately tore into the package, and found evidence suggesting that CRU scientists exaggerated warming; worked furiously to hide their data from outside examination; may have conspired to actually delete information to avoid freedom of information requests, and may have conspired to keep contrary findings from being published in respected climate journals, and IPCC reports.",5_2
"GISS shows 0.3C of warming in the US since 1930, which is 100% due to data tampering.",5_2
The flagrant liars at the University of Colorado and NASA claim that sea level is rising 3.3 mm/year,5_2
"ost troubling, are the suggestions that a tribe of incestuous climate scientists may have actively conspired to undermine the peer-review process.",5_2
"All three examinations took place within the country of physical jurisdiction, Great Britain, and none disappointed those of us anticipating whitewash. Simply stated, all parties were cleared of all wrongdoing other than perhaps sloppy journaling and sophomoric note-passing and all suspensions were lifted. As Andrew Montford summarized in his report , The Climategate Inquiries:",5_2
none of the Climategate panels mounted an inquiry that was comprehensive within their area of remit,5_2
Emails Reveal AGs Colluding with Green Groups to Investigate Climate Skeptics,5_2
"Even before the Climategate Emails came to light, the problem posed by the Medieval Warm Period to this band was known. ""We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period"" read a pre-Climategate email, circa 1995, as attested to at hearings of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. But the Climategate transcripts were more extensive and more illuminating they provided an unvarnished look at the struggles that the climate practitioners underwent before settling on their scientific dogma.",5_2
"In the interest of full disclosure, I have been an unpaid policy advisor to The Heartland Institute for many years, only once receiving a small grant many years ago to help fund research involving the global warming hoax. These days donations to my blog help sustain the effort.",5_2
"As readers no doubt know, I have previously obtained a great deal of Sir John Beddington??s correspondence around the Climategate affair. As evidence of Sir John??s involvement in setting up the whitewashes grows, I started to wonder about the information that Sir John??s office had said they had withheld for one reason or another. In particular I wondered what was covered by this:",5_2